Chapter Thirteen: Awakened Power
Princess Celestia's eyes shot opened as she heard the news that Golden Shot had died. She walked to her throne and sat. She then sighed.
"I see, Inform the others of the news." Princess Celestia ordered.
"Yes, Princess Celestia." The guard said.
The guard ran out of the room and Princess Celestia standed there. Simply heartbroken for Silent Wind, She would not like it for Silent Wind to be told of her death but it was something that she had to do. She stood up and went to go check on Princess Cadance.
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As the three stood there about to confront Shadow Moon, Silent Whisper was already thinking of a plan, seeing that head-on collisions with the opponent is very unwise and risky. Silent Wind didn't know what to really do other than attack but he kept his ground for a moment. Lily Blade began to simply look at Shadow Moon since she was very clueless what Shadow Moon could do and his possible flaws.
"Damn it! We're standing around too much!!" Silent Wind ran at Shadow Moon.
"Silent Wind! Wait!" Lily Blade said.
Silent Wind did not listen, he wanted to defeat the large stallion in front of them even if he was the first leader of the Silentblades. When he was within range of him, he dived one of his hidden blades at him only to no longer see him in front of him. He was behind him. Silent Wind stood up from the ground and blew his nose softly. He then heard Shadow Moon talk.
"Is that all? Begone." Shadow Moon then raised his right hoof and slammed it all the way down. Silent Wind shooked for a moment. Both Silent Whisper and Lily Blade did not know what Shadow Moon just did and then all the sudden, they saw a huge gush of blood came out from Silent Wind's chest and with that, Silent Wind fell down, near death. Silent Whisper's eyes widened in horror and in his rage, charged at Shadow Moon.
"Damn you!" Silent Whisper then summoned his scythe and grabbed it with his mouth and threw it at Shadow Moon but Shadow Moon had casted a shield and the sickle repelled and flew back to Silent Whisper. At the glimpse of his shield, he saw that he opened it with a small hole and putted his hoof through and shot a dense wind blast. Lily Blade reacted by placing a shield over Silent Whisper but the wind blast was very strong. Lily Blade grunted as she tried to keep the shield intact.
"This.. wind blast is so.. powerful. I'm going to-" Before Lily Blade could finish her thought, She and Silent Whisper were overwhelmed by the blast and were pushed back into the walls of the arena.
"Damn..!!" Silent Whisper grunted.
Shadow Moon then lowered his hoof and deactivated his shield and began to walk slowly towards the downed two. Lily Blade tried to stand up but she was pushed so hard against the walls that she did not have the strength to get up. Shadow Moon then chuckled.
"Die in vain." Shadow Moon said.
Shadow Moon then gasped very hard to gather up wind and pressure within his body to blow at the two but then, the two saw Silent Wind to their left and before Shadow Moon could blow at them, Silent Wind gave him a right punch that made him direct his blow to the left, causing a large mark on the walls and it also made Shadow Moon fly at a fast rate and pushing him into the walls also. Both Silent Whisper and Lily Blade were astonished and happy to see Silent Wind still up but looked at his chest and saw that it healed. Silent Whisper then remembered that the powers of Shade gave the host an amazing regeneration factor. Silent Wind panted as he gave some of his strength to that punch and saw that Shadow Moon was still standing, Silent Wind charged at him with his Shade-monster eyes.
"We don't have time to drag this out, guys! let's just hurry and beat the shit out of this motherbucker!" Silent Wind drew his hidden blades and blew wind into one of his blades which made it even longer but much heavier. And with a great swing, he swunged it at Shadow Moon. Shadow Moon quickly conjured a shield and managed to block Silent Wind's hidden blade that was longer since he made the wing form it into a longer blade but saw that his shield nearly broke. Silent Whisper then saw the opportunity to hit Shadow Moon with a severe blow. He quickly summoned Sheerclaw and ordered Sheerclaw to attack Shadow Moon's shield with his claw and break it. Sheerclaw quickly replied back with a dash at Shadow Moon and hitted him with a side swipe causing his shield to break and hitting him and throwing him back into the walls once again.
Lily Blade saw that they were winning. But then in the smoke, Sheerclaw was amazingly pushed back. Silent Whisper could not believe what he just saw. He then looked at the smoke and then heard a voice by him.
"Do not underestimate your enemies. Do not underestimate me." It was Shadow Moon's voice.
Silent Whisper turned to his right and saw Shadow Moon, before he could attack him with his single hidden blade on his right hoof, Shadow Moon propelled him away with a telekinesis ability and with Silent Whisper hitting against the wall very hardly. He could no longer get up but saw something different, there were markings all over Shadow Moon. Shadow Moon looked at Silent Whisper and smiled.
"I see you noticed the markings gift of the Silentblades. Very few ponies get this and only Silentblades get this." Shadow Moon then teleported by Silent Whisper and grabbed him with his magic.
"Astonishing, isn't it?" Shadow Moon said.
Then, Silent Wind came in behind Shadow Moon and was about to give Shadow Moon a slash to the chest with one of his hidden blades. Lily Blade also came in too, swinging her left hoof that had a large fist conjured by her. But then in a second, Shadow Moon was no longer in front of them. Silent Whisper was freed of the magic that held him. Both Silent Wind and Lily Blade cancelled their attacks. Shadow Moon then jumped in front of all of three of them and grabbed Silent Wind's Celestial Cloak and smashed him on the ground with a swinging hoof falling down, causing him to cough out trickles of blood. Shadow Moon then blew back Lily Blade with a wind blow and putted his hoof on Silent Whisper's face, and casted a small but powerful wind blast on his hoof and blasted back Silent Whisper's face which made him grunt in pain. Silent Wind looked down on the ground and hitted the ground with his hoof.
"You.. think you're all that... but you're not!!" Silent Wind yelled as he was getting even more angrier.
And with that, Silent Wind began to feel a large feeling of rush. He looked at one of his hooves and saw that he was turning dark-purple. Just like Shade. Lily looked at Silent Wind while wiping a trickle of blood below her mouth and saw that he was grunting hardly. His hair was turning white and getting more spikier. His eyes turning into a different form and the old Purple-black shade eyes he had were now turning into Crimson red-black shade eyes. She then looked at his teeth which were beginning to turn sharper and longer. And then, his wings then turning into slight-bat wings. Silent Wind grunted, and looking at himself. Not knowing what his happening to him and then he heard Shade's voice.
"You should really tap deeper into my powers! This power is much stronger than that damn Silentblade marking gift! Hurry and beat him, he might be the first leader of the Silentblades but he's resurrected so he can't use his most strongest magics but he's still tough!" Shade's voice echoed within his mind.
Silent Wind charged at him with an astonishing speed and began to cast magic, seeing that Shade was able to use magic, he could use magic also. He made a small smoke cloud and Shadow Moon raised an eyebrow and then saw a large fireball come at him and Shadow Moon reacted by using magic with his horn and dousing out the fire with water and then saw that Silent Wind was inside the fireball and with a blink of an eye, he saw that Silent Wind had dived his right hidden blade into his chest. Shadow Moon chuckled at Silent Wind, seeing that Silent Wind had a small resemblance toward him.
"Interesting.. you are just like me.. a stallion who cares about himself." Shadow Moon said and then he began to glow. Silent Whisper and Lily Blade both grunted but stood up, slightly dazed and very amazed that Silent Wind was strong enough to defeat the first leader of the Silentblades but only because Shadow Moon could not use his other abilities to use. Silent Wind shooked his head slowly and looked at Shadow Moon with his Crimson-black Shade eyes.
"No, I'm not like you or anypony else.." Silent Wind then took his blade out of Shadow Moon and sheathed it into his bracers but Shadow Moon simply stood there as he was about to vanish. Then, Silent Wind finished his sentence.
"..because anypony can change." Silent Wind then casted a small sphere with a tiny needle on it and charged at Shadow Moon and stabbed it into Shadow Moon and then he flew back.
"I see.. that must be courage." And then the sphere exploded and Shadow Moon simply broke into small particles and then all of his particles vanished.
Everypony including Silent Wind sighed. Silent Wind closed his eyes and then Silent Whisper and Lily Blade saw that he was turning back to normal and slightly getting smaller seeing how that the form he was in made him bigger. Lily went up to Silent Wind and so did Silent Whisper. Silent Whisper putted a hoof on Silent Wind's shoulder and Silent Wind looked at him with a smile.
"Looks like we're done with him now, too bad nopony was here to enjoy it." Silent Whisper joked.
Silent Wind and Lily Blade chuckled and Silent Wind saw that the gate that Twilight and her friends went into in front of them opened and saw a long and big stairway which had all chandeliers lit up and they all knew there was going to be a hallway also. All of them nodded at each other and began run up the long and large stairway.
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Twilight and her friends finally got to the large door that lead to the throne room and saw Discord. Discord slammed his throne and stood up. Enraged, he yelled at the Mane Six.
"Really, Twilight Sparkle.. you are a mere bump in my road!!" Discord yelled out.
Twilight and the other five of the Mane Six stood in a line. About to prepare to use the elements of harmony to defeat Discord once and for all.
"It's over, Discord!" Twilight's horn then began to spark and her friends levitated off the ground and then they all launched a single rainbow at Discord. Discord roared in objection but it was no use. Then, all the sudden, a large explosion happened. Twilight and her friends widened their eyes in surprise as they never saw that happen when they first defeated Discord. Then, they saw a Stallion who was three times their size. It was Discord in a ponified form. He had a brown coat, same evil yellow eyes, two horns on top of his head, a small beard, and two yellow hooves.
"Too bad, I made this form before you all came. I hope you all like it!" Discord's voice was much more smoothing. Then, he used one of his hooves to take off the elements of Harmony from all of the Mane Six and threw them aside where they could not reach it.
"Looks like we're gonna do this the hard way!!" Rainbow Dash yelled and went into a attacking position and the others of the Mane Six also joined in also as they prepared to fight Discord.
Discord gave them a sinister smile and chuckled. He then casted two glows within his two horns and flew up with his wings, showing that he turned himself not into a unicorn, but a Alicorn.