Iris Dust emerged from the darkness and met three people near the geode placement obelisk, the three people were his own daughter Moon Dust, the agilest and sneaky Smokeron named Scar Dagger and Smokeron who would carry out the ritual, Wither Star.
"Is everything set up?" Iris asked
"All the traps are set up dad, the other Smokerons are on their places, ready for a surprise deadly charge" Moon replied
"Okay, we'll start soon, you wait here Wither, the ritual will start soon enough", said Iris while placing the geodes on each obelisk, the obelisk then emitted a beam of light after placing the geodes on each, only 4 geodes remained. Iris then turned to Moon and Scar, signalling that they could start on their charge, Moon and Scar then turned into dark grey smoke and moved away into the darkness.
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"This isn't good" Kilic mumbled, then turned to his brother. "What do you think brother?"
Sakin shook his head sideways while closing his eyes indicating that he also felt that something strange, something isn't right. Rainbow Dash then tried to calm them both down. "relax!, we've come this far and nothing is too dangerous to us!, so far there are only some white smoked Smokerons that are easy to knock down"
"That's the bad part, it's all too easy", Sakin rolled his eyes. "An easy thing like this could be a settled-up trap"
"There's no such thing as a settled-up trap so far, there's nothing we need to wor-" Rainbow Dash's sentence was cut short as several grey-smoked Smokerons appeared from behind then ran towards them and prepared to charge.
They then immediately ran to avoid the Smokerons, but there were so many of them and they were very fast. Trixie then threw a few more smokeballs at the smokerons to slow them down. "You guys go first, Trixie will hold them back"
The others then nodded and dashed away from Trixie and the Smokerons towards their destination. But Flame, Valent, Flash, Puffer, Hance and his robot H-4rc chose to stay to help Trixie hold off the smokerons. The smoke from the Trixie slowly disappear, the Smokeron then immediately moved towards and attacked them.
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the others were running as fast as they could towards where the obelisk was, but suddenly a Smokeron ran towards them and hit Kilic, Sakin then attacked that Smokeron, dealing a foot hit to the head.
That Smokeron easily dodged back and readied his stance, Sakin then turned to the others and nodded then tilted his head in sign to tell them to go first and let the two of them finish this guy off. the others then immediately nodded and decided to continue going in the direction the obelisk was located.
Kilic then got up and prepared his horses to fight Smokeron who turned out to be Scar Dagger, Scar then jumped at Sakin and gave a high kick, Sakin parried with his hand then Kilic attacked the man and was about to give him a hard punch right in the face.
Scar avoids it by holding Kilic's hand, but Sakin uses this moment to hit Scar's stomach, Scar retreats while releasing Kilic but Kilic immediately gives a knee kick to Scar's face, Scar then gets up and wipes up the blood on his mouth, then gives a punch at them, Kilic and Sakin parry it together, Sakin then gives a high kick again towards Scar's face. but Scar gets down to avoid Sakin's leg and gives Kilic's stomach another hard punch then knocked Sakin down by kicking his other leg which was on the ground and immediately gave a hard kick to Kilic, lucky Kilic managed to block it with both arms.
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Just like before, they were all close to where the obelisk was, but once again someone stopped them, it was Moon Dust, Rainbow Dash then chose to hold off Moon Dust as the others had done before. and the others immediately headed for the obelisk's existence.
Rainbow Dash then kicks her football at Moon, Moon immediately shoots her stun gun and shoots the ball, destroying it. Moon then drops her stun gun and runs towards Rainbow Dash, Rainbow Dash then gives a side kick, and Moon dodges then giving a low punch to the chest where Rainbow Dash holds Moon's hand and diverts her hand down.
Moon then bumped her head with Rainbow Dash's head making Rainbow Dash retreat back a few steps while holding her head, Moon then took this opportunity to immediately give Rainbow Dash a high kick.
Rainbow Dash managed to dodge the kick by throwing herself to the side, apparently next to her was the stun gun that Moon had dropped earlier. Rainbow Dash took the stun gun and pointed it at Moon.
Moon immediately kicked Rainbow Dash's hand and dropped the stun gun, Moon was about to step on Rainbow Dash but she rolled to the side and got up. but Moon already had a stun gun in her hand and was about to aim it at Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash smacked Moon's hand and dropped the stun gun, but Moon immediately kicked Rainbow Dash to the ground. Rainbow Dash then wakes up and prepares to attack Moon again.
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"That's the obelisks!, we have to retrieve the geodes and maybe even destroy the obelisks if needed" Twilight pointed at the 7 pillar obelisks that were already in front of them.
but suddenly, Iris Dust appeared from behind and greeted them all by clapping his hand, then immediately turned into smoke and headed towards them as fast as the wind. Rarity immediately used the crystal shield to stop the smoke.
"Sunset, take Fluttershy, Pinkie and Wallflower to the obelisks and retrieve the geode, we will take care of this man," Twilight said, Sunset then nodded and quickly left with Fluttershy, Pinkie and Wallflower.
"let's teach this man how to properly borrow our things," Rarity said
"Ah will have his bones crushed" Applejack continued Rarity's words
Iris Dust then immediately turned into black smoke and moved high then slid towards Applejack and transformed into human form while giving a flying high kick. Applejack dodged and used his super strong and hit Iris hardly.
Iris is thrown back but manages to control himself, Rarity spawns some sharp crystals from the ground towards Iris, Iris dodges but Twilight moves the crystals towards him. Iris could dodge the crystals, but Applejack immediately grabbed one of the large crystals and threw it at Iris.
Iris managed to dodge the attack but Applejack immediately ran towards him and dealt a continuous blow, took a fairly long and large crystal as her weapon and swung it at Iris.
Iris dodged all the attacks, and then Twilight bring Applejack up and allowed Applejack to strike from top to bottom while swinging the crystal in her hand, Iris was about to run away but Rarity trapped Iris's body with the crystals around his body.
Applejack then fell to the ground with his crystal swinging downwards, both the crystal in his hand and the crystal that trapped Iris's body broke apart, but Iris's body was nowhere to be found. they all then looked back to find Iris Dust had survived by quickly turning into black smoke just before Applejack was about to destroy it.
"not bad girls, but still, I have everything under my control" Iris smirked then turned into black smoke and immediately moved towards them to attack.