I cut down another dragon and searched the skies for any pegasi that needed help. It was at this moment I noticed a low hum of a phase blade and I immediately flew off in a direction of clear skies because I knew it was too close to find the source without having sufficient reaction time to dodge it after I found out what it was.
Once I reached a safe location meters away I looked back and found the most startling sight of my life. Shadow Master was in Equestria. And he must be working for the corruption or he wouldn’t attack me.
I made him…he doesn’t attack unless attacked or paid to attack. I think he was paid or blackmailed.
“Shadow Master.”
“My lord.” He said which took me by surprise. His voice was filled with anger or annoyance. “I’m here to fight you. I’m sorry about any ill feelings you will have towards me after this battle. But the corruption must spread.”
“Why?”
“Because I was paid to spread it.”
We eyed each other. We knew our fight begun the moment he finished his sentence, the only way I could describe that understanding is a battle bond.
The sounds of fighting faded around us and we were the only entities that existed on this plane. We began our fight in one blast of motion and the moment our blades clashed there was a massive sound that resonated through the battlefield. And that sound had a story attached to it.
The real battle has just begun.
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Celestia was on a rampage. If her faithful student were to see her rip apart a dragon with her simplest spells even she will waver and fear her might. But for the guards who’ve served her they knew how caring and devoted to Equestria she really was.
But they were secretly shaking with fear and praying she will always be fighting for Equestria and with them.
Celestia’s eyes glowed with rage the moment the first pegasi fell and she cut down the whole line of enemies in front of her. She single hoofedly wiped out 1% of the armada that they were engaged with in less than ten seconds. But now the lines were mixed and she had to be careful as to not hit her own troops.
Radiant Garden was on the ground purifying the land with the ground forces and repelling hydra’s.
Radiant Garden jumped at a hydra and used his ivy whip-which he could control with his powers over plants-and wrapped it around the hydra’s legs and jaws. He then took the whip and tightened it so much that it broke every bone in the hydra’s body like a massive boa constrictor.
He repeated this process with the hydra that tried desperately to escape his grasp. Once they were dead he landed in the corrupt grass and slowly his jungle suit became corrupted…but he didn’t.
Now his corrupted jungle armor was surprisingly more durable because of it. He rushed the lines of corrupt bunnies and manticores and other predators and cut them all down with ease.
So much so he didn’t see the dragon until it landed right next to him in a bloody mess.
“YOU WILL NOT HARM MY PONIES!” Bellowed Celestia.
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Twilight Sparkle and her brother made the best team on the battlefield. Armor would set up a shield and offensive spells to kill and stop attackers. The airborne enemies were wreaking havoc on the numbers of their line and they needed air support. But there was a sound that quieted both armies for a full minute.
*BANG!*
The sound was none other than the sound of Puppet Master and Shadow Master hitting head on with their swords at such a velocity that raw power came off of them. They had their own aura’s. Puppet Master had white while Shadow Master had a purple aura. They looked like two comets got in an argument and started orbiting each other and bouncing off each other’s surface when too close.
You couldn’t tell if they rammed into each other or they just hit swords against each other. It was so confusing with how fast they were going and the way they orbited each other. It was like they were analyzing each other’s movements to determine when they would both strike.
Armor used this moment to charge up a powerful enough spell to kill the hydra that’s been tearing the ponies apart. Once it released and the hydra went down the battle started again.
It wasn’t long until the purifying of the land became the last thing on each ponies mind. This was now a fight for survival and the armies of the corrupted seemed not to end.
As if they’ve been dragging life forms back into the corruption for weeks.
Ponies were getting desperate and some guards even tried to hide next to the chariots hoping Celestia will call for a retreat. Little did they know that they were losing the ground battle but winning the air battle. However the areas where Celestia and Radiant Garden were fighting found victory and purification.
Some of the ponies that were corrupted were purified by the powder when it was thrown at them. They quickly either ran and hid from battle, got struck down by a corrupt creature, or grabbed a weapon and joined the fight to save Equestria.
But mostly they fought to save Equestria after a while. Ponies were patriotic like that.
Twilight Sparkle in particular was feeling patriotic…but after fighting like this she began to lose her cool, she’s never seen so much evil in a creature before. And she’s never experienced having to kill anything before.
The first one that fell she instantly regretted it, but convinced herself soldiers need to do this to keep her safe and she needed to do this today, but bodies started falling. She slowly realized war and found refuge by cowering under a chariot.
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I flew in circles around my foe and he around me. We eyed each other with envy and annoyance. We were both the same creature at war with itself. I wanted to kill him but I couldn’t, he was having the same issue in his mind.
“STOP!” I shouted to him. The world faded back into our vision and we looked around and realized exactly where we were…as if we didn’t know before.
He looked around at the carnage on both sides and flew back into the corruption. After a few seconds I decided I would follow and let Rainbow Dash take care of the skies. She was actually doing very good for just realizing what it was like to actually fight in war.
I flew after him despite my better judgment to stay and help those who were still fighting; chances are if I don’t stop Shadow Master from doing whatever he’s off to do now the situation could get a lot worse.
But Shadow Master has backed out of a fight when the object of the fight didn’t suit him.
“AVAT THEE!” Shouted an unfamiliar voice from below us. I stopped following him and he slowly went out of sight. “YOU WILL DIE BY MY BLADE CORRUPTION!”
“What the fuck?” I said looking at the image of a fully hollowed man down below who was surrounded by corrupted creatures. “Oh…well he’s working with us?” I tried to reason.
Just then a minotaur launched himself at him when his back was turned. I instinctively dove after it and split it in two just before my feet slammed into the ground and I righted myself to a more straight position.
“Hello friend,” I said to the strange man while looking at the corruption that now surrounded both of us. “May I join you in this battle?”
He took a quick glance in my direction and then back to the corrupted foes that surrounded us. We were back to back with Excalibur’s in hand and wings spread for take off.
“Ah a fellow Terrarian come to my aid. Good to see you shield brother.”
“Unfortunately we are outnumbered. Fly up when I say.”
“On your command shield brother.”
The corrupt beasts launched themselves at us and ran in for the kill all at once.
“NOW!” We beat our wings hard and fast so we were a mile away from them when we stopped simultaneously. I used the cursed flame tome to lob a massive fireball downward and it obliterated the foes we were facing.
“Fantastic shield brother. May I ask your name?”
“Puppet Master. Yours friend?”
“Ay friend indeed. Celldric.”
‘Celldric?!?!?! You know when I said Radiant Garden helped out adventurers to fight evil when I role played with my friends…Celldric was one of the heroes.’
“Celldric? I’ve heard of you. But now is not the time! We need to stop Shadow Master NOW!”
“SHADOW MASTER?!? Surely Dark Wolf is close behind.” He said coldly.
“Let’s hurry so we can catch him.”
“No…let us kill him.” He flew off in the wrong direction.
“WRONG WAY!”
He didn’t hear me and we went towards the front lines of ponies and corrupted.
“Actually yea go that way.” I said awkwardly.
‘That awkward moment when the hero goes the wrong way.’ I thought to myself. I flew in the right direction toward where Shadow Master went.
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Celldric found his way towards the front lines. He halted in place when he saw the fighting. He quickly scanned the lines and noticed strange looking creatures fighting the corruption working together with golden armor. He looked at the ground and saw fighting there as well but also the strange four legged creatures purifying the corruption.
“Hmm ANY ENEMY OF THE CORRUPTION!” he bellowed so everyone could hear. “IS A FRIEND OF MINE!” He swooped in and tore a hole through a hydra’s skull with the sheer force of impact alone.
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Rainbow Dash was getting cocky like she usually does. Only this time it’s for a good reason because she was cutting down more evil creatures than the stallions that were trained to do it. It was because of her speed and her strength with her swing. She wizzed around the battlefield with ease and managed to save several soldiers from imminent death. Then she saw a hydra go down by Puppet Master.
“Nice one Puppet Master!” She shouted.
“MY NAME IS CELLDRIC AND I AM A DESTROYER OF EVIL!”
“Who?” She said more to herself than him. He was too far below to hear her question anyway. “Then where the hay is Puppet Master?”
She scanned the area around her and noticed he was gone. She looked across the horizon and saw two creatures flying away from battle. She wanted to go after him but she wanted to help the guards.
“AVAT THEE!” Bellowed Celldric and she looked at him to see he was mopping the floor with the corruption.
“Maybe he can take care of it.” She said and zoomed off after Puppet Master.
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Radiant Garden and Celestia were now fighting side by side on ground level now that the skies were cleared. Celestia took over protection of the ground forces while the other pegasi went to aid the rest of the line.
Corrupted forest armor covered his body and he ran around cutting down enemies with their own power.
He hacked and slashed while purifying when he could and he dashed around the battlefield protecting soldiers.
“DIE CORRUPTED ONE!”
“T-that voice? Celldric!?” He shouted out once he realized who it was. Celldric was above him about to split his head open before he moved out of the way.
“Jungle God? Is that you? H-how? Are you working with the corruption!?”
“No it’s just a side effect of walking in it. Now get me purification powder I want to be rid of this!”
“On it friend!” He flew off and destroyed two Eater of Souls on his way towards one of the pegasi.
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Puppet Master neared Shadow Master and right before he was going to grab him Shadow Master dived toward the ground and landed on his feet.
Puppet Master landed in front of him a few meters away.
“So what now?” I said.
“Now…The master comes.”
“Dark Wolf?”
“No.” He pulled out a crafted wad of rotten meat and bone. It took me a while to realize what it was…
Worm bait.
“Really?” I said. “Are you for real? The Eater of worlds is an easy enemy to destroy.”
“Not one who’s influence spreads to more than one world.” He said with a devilish smile.
“Wait…fuck?” I said confused as to how that could work but also a little worried that he may be stronger than when I’ve last faced him.
*RAWR!*
“God dammit I guess I’m going to find out.”
I brought my sword to bear and got ready to destroy the Eater of Worlds. A giant worm-that looked nothing different from the original-burst out of the ground and created a giant hole in the earth.
Then out of nowhere a fast blur of rainbow and blue surrounded the Eater of worlds and it exploded into a gory mess.
“Damn.” I said looking where the Eater of Worlds once was. I looked back down at Shadow Master who was gone.
“Thank you thank you!” Said a cocky voice that came from a rainbow maned Pegasus. “You’re too kind! No thanks are necessary.” She said while lowering herself to the ground.
“WHOA WHOA WAIT!”
“It’s ok you can get my autograph later.” She said touching the purple grass.
“NO THE CORRUPTION RAINBOW!”
Her face became one of pure fear and she looked down to see herself turning purple from the hooves up.
“AAAAAAH-ah-gar” She made a gargling noise. “I’m going to kill you!” Said a red eyed purple Pegasus with a semi multicolored mane but with each color had a purple tint to it.
“God dammit.” I face palmed.