//------------------------------// // Underestimated Powers // Story: Assassin's Tears II // by MisterGTFO //------------------------------// Chapter Eleven: Underestimated Powers Golden Shot was curious of her opponents abilities, All she had with her was a violin. Deadly Rose began to play music. Golden Shot was getting irritated, seeing a Mare play music with her hooves in a time of War. Golden Shot stomped her hoof and Deadly Rose stopped playing her music. Deadly Rose gave Golden Shot a boring look. "Yes? I'm playing music, please hush." Deadly Rose then continued her music, Golden Shot at that point, lost it. She clicked her gun and shot a cannon shell at Deadly Rose, Deadly Rose smiled evil-like and began to play music crazily. There was a large smoke cloud around Deadly Rose. And to Golden Shot's surprise, The cannon did not hit her. Golden Shot soon wondered what happened she was sure she hit her dead center. "How in equestria, did this muppet block it? I saw nothin' in front of her!" Golden Shot thought. Golden Shot then saw that Deadly Rose was playing music again and more faster, and then she then played a ear-screeching note. At the corner of Golden Shot's eye, she saw something clear and white she dodged only with a cut on her ear. She touched her ear and saw a trickle of blood on her hoof. She then realized: The music was her ability. Deadly Rose chuckled, seeing that Golden Shot finally knew what her ability was. "Now that I see that your stupidity has finally caught wind of my ability, I can finally play a song of death for you." Deadly Rose then positioned to play her Violin and began to play her Violin crazily. Golden Shot hopped behind one of the pillars and heard the sound of blades and stone coming together, when she stuck her head out, she saw that the pillar she was behind was cutted up with four slashes. She then backed up from the Pillar and shot the bottom of the pillar with a explosive. She saw that the falling Pillar was going to fall on top of Deadly Rose, Deadly Rose simply smirked seeing how futile that was, She then putted her bow in her mouth and rubbed it spontaneously against her violin, causing the pillar to freeze and then all the sudden, the Pillar was cut in half, missing Deadly Rose. "You are weak, I wonder how you even beated the ringleaders." Deadly Rose spitted out her bow which was held in her mouth and then was playing with her right hoof. She quickly ran her hooves across the strings, Golden Shot then heard a small 'woosh' getting closer, she then felt something hard hit her face, Deadly Rose used her magic to make a fist charge at Golden Shot and it hit Golden Shot dead center in the face, causing her to propel back into one of the pillars. She flew at one of the pillars back-first and saw that the pillar she had hit was falling on top of her, she quickly dodged it and she escaped a fatal situation. Panting, Golden Shot looked at Deadly Rose who was still standing where she was. Golden Shot smiled, wondering what should she do to beat Deadly Rose. "Alright then.. how am I gonna mess this, mare here?" Golden Shot then reached her head into her vest pouches and took out a small box full of bullets and putted it inside her hoofgun with her mouth. Deadly Rose's eyes flickered, seeing that she would have to fight harder against Golden Shot. "This mare is getting quite serious.. so will I." Deadly Rose rubbed her hoof against the ground before putting it near the strings again. During the battle with Deadly Rose and Golden Shot.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shining Armor stumbled opon one of the Advisors, Ghost Spectre. Since he had never seen him, he did not know what Ghost Spectres specialty was, Shining Armor stood his ground and confronted Ghost Spectre, Ghost Spectre simply looked at him with a glare of umamusement. "It looks like they failed, how pathetic." Ghost Spectre cursed. Shining Armor was not surprised by those words, he already knew how criminals like the Silentblades were like, not much caring and respect to their inferior allies. Shining Armor backed up and glowed his horn. Ghost Spectre noticed and released his chains that had one-edged blades at the end with shackles from his hoof wrists from his long-sleeves. "I cannot let you live, for you are a criminal, I will eliminate you here." Shining Armor growled. Ghost Spectre closed his eyes and chuckled, Shining Armor soon gave him a stare of confusion, wondering why he was laughing. Ghost Spectre then opened his eyes. "To be fair.." Ghost Spectre said then, Shining Armor only blinked for a moment and Ghost Spectre was no longer in front of him, then he somehow felt his presence behind him. "I do the eliminating." Ghost Spectre said before hitting Shining Armor with his hoof. Shining Armor flipped and flew away from Ghost Spectre, then he hit his back against a wall. Made of Chains. He coughed up some of his blood and wiped his mouth with his left hoof. Shining Armor then saw that Ghost Spectre had rooted his chains into the ground which made the wall of chains, Ghost Spectre quickly took his chains back out of the floor and retracted them until the only thing he saw on his wrists was the blades attached to the chains. "I see.. that." Shining Armor said while recuperating. Shining Armor then shot an energy ray at Ghost Spectre at his face with high speed, Ghost Spectre dodged it with a simple scratch on his cheek. Ghost Spectre touched his cheek and saw a tiny drop of blood on his hoof. Ghost Spectre smiled and glared at Shining Armor, giving Shining Armor a small shiver. "You should be honored, no one has ever hit me before, no one." Ghost Spectre said intently. Shining Armor gave his horn another glow. "Really then, let me give you another hit! Criminal scum!" Shining Armor charged at Ghost Spectre with a roar and Ghost Spectre replied his charge with the small dangling chains with each of two chains attached to his wrists with a shackle with a small one-edged blade at the end. Shining Armor tilted his head all the way back, Ghost Spectre thought that Shining Armor was going to do a headbutt on him but then saw the large form of Shining Armor's aura forming on his horn which was forming into a long blade and Ghost Spectre knew that his aura would be as sharp as a typical sword. So he raised up his left arm in attempt to block his conjured blade on Shining Armor's horn. Shining Armor knew that he would simply cut off Ghost Spectre's left arm. So, he knew he would get him. Shining Armor then swung at Ghost Spectre's blocking left arm with his horn that had a conjured blade on it. He hitted his left arm with a breaking force, but his arm was still intact nor did Shining Armor did any kind of damage to him. Ghost Spectre smiled and hitted Shining Armor with his arm, it hurted even more than the punch. Once Shining Armor landed on the ground, he rubbed his jaw and then Ghost Spectre began rip off his long sleeves. And with that, Shining Armor saw that his arms were covered in chains, possibly to cause more damage. Ghost Spectre sighed with relief once he finished with ripping off his long sleeves with his teeth. "It was getting a bit tiresome with the sleeves, anyways I'm done messing around. You're going to die today." Ghost Spectre then hurled his chains at Shining Armor. Meanwhile.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Princess Cadance and Magicius did not even talk when they both saw each other, It only took a moment for both of them to notice each other and instantly began to attack each other, eventually they both became exhausted from their uses of their magic. Seeing that they were giving it their all at each other. Even though she was an Alicorn, She was struggling with the Magician Silentblade. Magicius tilted his head to the ground and it began to spurt out his aura, all the sudden, there was a seal on the ground and then there was a large cloud of smoke. Princess Cadance putted her right hoof in front of her face to cover her vision from the smoke. Once the smoke was gone, all that she saw was Magicius and the only thing that she no longer saw in front of her, was the seal on the floor. She then heard a large cracking noise below her and the ground shattered to pieces and all the sudden, Princess Cadance saw herself binded by a large snake. The snake hissed at her, giving her a fearful hiss. Magicius moved forward Princess Cadance, Princess Cadance tried very hardly to break from the Snake's body tied around her. Magicius soon halted his advance and looked at Princess Cadance. "Now, you didn't tell my why you're here.." Magicius said. "Were.. here for your master!" Princess Cadance grunted. Magicius was still looked at her with a blank expression, he turned his back at Princess Cadance and rubbed his neck for a moment. Then he looked back at Princess Cadance. "Even if you were to get to my brother, you'd wouldn't win. And that also goes for Silent Wind also who is my nephew..." Magicius said and coughed with a small trickle of blood on his mouth. Magicius was quite old and had health problems ever since, and Princess Cadance noticed. "And why is that?!" Princess Cadance asked. Magicius smiled and chuckled softly, he then shaked his head at Princess Cadance. Princess Cadance wondered why he shook his head at her. "He's stronger than you think." Magicius bragged. Princess Cadance's eye flickered at what Magicius said, she did not know what Void Silentblade could do and was slightly afraid of Void for a moment until she thought of Silent Wind, Princess Cadance alone knew that she had the most faith in Silent Wind. She glared and looked at Magicius with a smirk. "He may be strong, but Silent Wind will prevail because me- no, everyone..." Princess Cadance sighed. Magicius was silent, silence surrounded around them, "..have the utmost faith in him!" Princess Cadance said cheerfully. Magicius shot a glare at her. And walked back slightly before stopping in his advance away from her. "You are hopeless, you know nothing of us. Now, stay still and listen to me.." Magicius began. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghost Spectre charged at Shining Armor and swung a chain at Shining Armor, Shining Armor dodged the chain by lowering his head and once he brought his head back up, he saw that Ghost Spectre was about to swing a fist at him, Shining Armor also saw the hurling punch coming at him and dodged it by jumping out of the way. But then he saw a chain go to his leg and he tripped and then he saw the chain going around his whole body which caused him to be immobilized, he managed to get up, but he could not fight in a position like that, the chain also tangled around the horn also, making him unable to use magic. Ghost Spectre jumped to him while using his left arm to manipulate the chains tangled around Shining Armor. Ghost Spectre smiled at him. "I see you tangled up, sorry about that let me help." Ghost Spectre joked and made the chains around Shining Armor even tighter. Although Shining Armor was wearing his purple armor, he began to feel pressure around him. "Damn! I can't get out of these chains.. I can't move..!!" Shining Armor coughed out blood as a chain around his neck tightened. Ghost Spectre began to chuckled and sighed. Shining Armor looked at him with an anger-filled face whilst still trying to break away from the chains. "You know, we still have that bounty on you and your woman.. you know what I say about that?" Ghost Spectre said. Shining Armor raised an eyebrow with multiple grunts of failure and shame. Ghost Spectre raised his other hoof and grinned with a sinister chuckle. "Mission Accomplished." Ghost Spectre then hurled the other chain on his right arm with high velocity and pointed the tip of the blade attached to the end of the chain at Shining Armor.