With his faith in his friends keeping him hopeful of their success, Fire Fight could focus his full fiery fury onto Snowdrop. The both of them high above the battlefield below, the ice-bearing filly herself bore her fangs, ready to strike.
“WELL, FIRE FIGHT!? WHAT’S YOUR NEXT MOVE!? I’M DYING TO SEE IT!!” She bellowed, her ice magic causing her draconic armor to alight with vicious magical bursts.
“NO MORE QUIPS, SNOWDROP!! THIS ENDS NOW!!!” Fire Fight declared. He gathered his magic and let it burst out. “HRAAGGHH!!!!” From his horn surged an enormous flame that enveloped him like a controlled, almost tangible cloud of smoke. It then formed into the shape of a serpentine dragon, the same one he’d met in his vision. The dragon roared, causing its fiery body to spew flames all around it.
With only their fighting spirits fueling their hearts, the two combatants surged toward each other, ready for a titanic clash. When they collided, a storm of raging fire and piercing eyes lit the sky like a red and white solar flare. The sky-shattering impact dispersed the clouds around them, allowing the sun to shine through for a precious moment before Snowdrop’s magic summoned them back.
Snowdrop launched a barrage of magically charged icicles at him, but Fire Fight controlled his newly gained fiery dragon armor to tail swipe the icy ordinance, evaporating them all on impact. Using his momentum, he swept the tail again and launched a barrage of fireballs shaped like dragon heads that homed in on Snowdrop. Before they could hit, she summoned a gust of icy wind around her that instantly froze the fireballs, and they burst in midair.
“IS THAT IT!?!? IS THAT THE NEW POWER YOU’VE REALIZED, O MIGHTY FIRE FIGHT OF THE BATTLE FOALS!?” Snowdrop taunted.
Fire Fight just smirked. “No. THIS IS!!!”
With all his fiery might mustered within him, Fire Fight surged forward with his fist raised, which by proxy raised the claw of his dragon. When he got in range, he threw his punch, which caused his dragon to swipe its claw at Snowdrop.
While Snowdrop was able to block the attack by quickly erecting a wall of ice, the sheer force of it all blasted her back clear across the plain. Now feeling fully threatened, Snowdrop doubled down on her aggression. She charged a vast amount of magic and fired a powerful ice lightning beam at him.
Fire Fight bobbed and weaved through the air as he soared over to her, ready to strike again, but as he got close, Snowdrop just manage to clip him, and he careened down into the snow, crashing like a meteor. But he felt no pain, and got right back onto his hooves. Flapping his wings, he rocketed back into the air and concentrated a powerful amount of magic. He released it as his dragon breathing a torrent of fire.
Snowdrop countered the inferno with another ice lightning beam. The two streams of energy pushed back against each other. Just as it seemed like Snowdrop had the upper hand, Fire Fight surged through the flames and pushed back with all his might against the ice beam. Snowdrop didn’t notice until it was too late, and Fire Fight body slammed right into her, the explosive impact blasting some her dragon’s armor away.
Deciding to take a page from his book, Snowdrop let the armor shards fall away, and she conjured huge ice claws that she swiped at Fire Fight. Fire Fight swiped right back with his dragon, the two powers colliding with explosive force that threatened to shatter the sky.
After some titanic back and forth, the two dragons caught each other in their claws, and the two foals stared each other down. Their fangs were bore, and their rage pulsed through them.
Snowdrop managed a wicked smirk. “Enjoying yourself, Fire Fight?” she said.
“You bet I am!!” Fire Fight said.
Snowdrop cackled. “Good! That means you’re right where you belong, right in your element!!”
“What do you mean!?” Fire Fight demanded.
“YOU’RE EXPRESSING YOUR SPECIAL TALENT! YOU’RE FIGHTING!! YOU’RE SETTING EQUESTRIA ON FIRE!!!” Snowdrop taunted. “And that’s how it’ll stay if actually manage to beat me! Even after my blizzard stops raging, you’ll just go back to the Equestria you ran from! Nothing will change!! But as it is now, you can fight, and you can keep fighting, and FIGHTING, and FIGHTING FOREVER!!! It’d just be you and me, locked in eternal combat, and nopony could stop us!” she said. “Besides… I’m having fun too!”
Fire Fight fanned his flames with his wings. “You’re wrong, Snowdrop! This Equestria, the one you buried under your snow, it’s already gone! I’ve already burned it away!” he said. “A new Equestria is gonna rise from its ashes, one where fighting is accepted! Not necessary, but accepted. And it’s gonna start once I BURN AWAY YOUR ICE AND SNOW FOR GOOD!!!”
His dragon began to overpower Snowdrop’s, and it pushed back against the icy wyrm until it was bent over. It inhaled like a voracious vacuum and blasted a stream of fire down onto its opponent. As it did, Fire Fight swooped in and threw at Snowdrop a fully ignited punch.
However, Snowdrop’s dragon thrust its tail upward and struck Fire Fight dead in his abdomen, almost piercing through his armor and sending him flying, causing his dragon to stop breathing fire.
The ice dragon’s tail then reached up and coiled around Fire Fight like the tentacle of a kraken to the point that it nearly suffocated him. His dragon tried to reach for him, but Snowdrop’s suddenly sprouted even bigger, longer claws that caught the fiery serpent like a fly in a web. It sent streams of ice down the claws that caused its flames to start fizzling out, to the point that it almost seemed like a skeletal flame.
“NO!!! IT’S YOU WHO WILL BURN OUT!!!” Snowdrop declared.
Slowly, Fire Fight could feel his very life being frozen away like a wart. But even though his dragon was fizzling away, his fighting spirit wasn’t, and it was fighting back against Snowdrop with a vengeance.
With an explosion of willpower, Fire Fight blasted his way out of Snowdrop’s grip like a ton of dynamite, destroying the tail of her dragon his dragon. His own dragon regained its fiery luster and broke free of the ice dragon’s grip. Truly, nothing was stopping him.
The fire dragon rammed into the ice dragon, and as it did, Fire Fight surged towards Snowdrop and at last landed his volcanic punch.
Feeling the full force of Fire Fight’s fiery wrath, Snowdrop was blown back in a blaze, with her dragon being the only thing to catch the flames and keep her from being burned alive.
In a flash of ice and snow, Snowdrop blew away the flames, and an icy blue light blazed from the now innumerable cracks in her dragon’s armor. “YOU KNOW WHAT, I DON’T CARE ABOUT HOW FEEL ABOUT EQUESTRIA! I JUST WANT TO KILL YOU!!!”
Fire Fight banged his fists together, causing him and his dragon’s flames to burn more furiously. “COME AND TRY!”
The two scions of fire and ice soared towards each other, the sky trembling as it anticipating their impending collision.
When they collided, it was an explosion of fire and ice and ice that lit the sky like a divine light show. From then on, the exchanged blow, both up close and at range. Be it foal or dragon, each blow was explosive, threatening to shatter the sky around them.
At one point, Snowdrop raised a vast amount of snow from off the ground and hurled it towards Fire Fight. He responded by send his dragon out to body slam the blanket of snow, burning through it like a hot knife through butter, and Snowdrop braced herself for impact.
But instead of flare blitzing into her, the dragon spiraled around her, and then clamped its jaws onto the head area that encased Snowdrop. Before her dragon could fight back, the flaming serpent exhaled a powerful stream of fire down across the ice wyrm, the torrent of heat and flames chipping away at its armor.
Snowdrop tried, but with her dragon burning away, she couldn’t muster the magic needed to blow it away. “No… STOP!”
She looked ahead and saw a glint of blazing light approaching her at mach speed- it was Fire Fight, soaring towards her with fire in his eyes and surging around him like an unstoppable meteor. He did a front flip and readied a full-frontal kick.
“NOOOOOO!!!!!!!”
Fire Fight struck her dead on, the impact instantly shattering what remained of her dragon armor, and it sent the two flying off together, with Snowdrop staggered like a ragdoll.
While they were still airborne, Fire Fight launched his final assault. He lashed out with a short combo of well-timed punches that ended with a brutal uppercut that launched her up. He shot up to her and slammed her towards the ground with an explosive axe kick. Snowdrop struck the ground with a thunderous crash. In one last show of blazing glory, Fire Fight swooped in the air and dive towards her like a falcon, readying his fist for the final blow.
“RAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!”
He struck Snowdrop as he crashed into the ground, the impact creating a fiery explosion that surged across the frozen plain, evaporating every inch of ice and snow that was caught in the blast. When the dust settled, the air had become warm, the blizzard had stopped, and the battlefield had been overcome with a deafening, yet serene silence.
It was finally over…