//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: soul of the night // Story: the curse of stone and sight // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// stone does not bend or break, but is unyielding and un-moving "well what are we going to do?" twilight asked celestia "that decision is up to Vatry." celestia replied "all the magic capable users make a shield around fang, and make it lethal." Vatry instructed. celestia's horn glowed as did Luna's, and the remaining unicorns of the group; soon a shimmering rainbow like shield came up around the magic users holding everyone but Vatry in the area, but Vatry just drew his obsidian great sword and charged swinging, decapitating a large gorgon squad but he wasn't done yet as he picks up one of the heads by her hair and opens the eyes turning to stone the first wave as the smarter ones stays back or turns away from the grisly trophy, but as silent as the falling of snow vatry appeared and disappeared due to his natural camouflage and years of fighting off stupid monsters. this is too easy, vatry thinks as he swings his sword in a mid horizontal arc i feel like a enemy is missing from this- *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* vatry is thrown a cross the field as one of the dragons flying over head let lose a a condensed ball of searing white flame, heat is not a problem to vatry, but the concussion blurred his vision and the explosion rang in his ears. "oh that hurt," vatry said out loud as he nimbly dodges a swipe from a gorgon as he expertly sheaths his sword and goes for hand to hand as he catches the offending limb and tears it off then uses it to beat the closest monster around him away, but the arm could only do so much when its used as a bludgeon. "lets use our stoning spell to subdue this abomination," hissed the gorgon general as the group she commanded nodded in agreement I might be able to win this fight completely alone, vatry thought not paying attention to his surrounding as a group of gorgons came from behind and grabbed his head and forced him to look into the eyes of the gorgon general, but they forgot one thing about a gargoyle; he is already cursed to stone by the light of day so their gaze has no effect on the, as of now, very pissed gargoyle. "BITCH PREPARE TO DIE," vatry screeched as he reached forward and promptly tore the head of the gorgon general off, so with their general dead and their army broken the gorgons fled, but vatry still has two massive challenges ahead of him, the werewolf general and the dragon general. damn we lost the gorgon advantage, but at least the dragons are still here so we can still beat this lone beast, volf mused to himself since the was the only lycan in the battle with the blessing of control, but his musings were cut short as he watched vatry tear through a werewolf pack with ease using his obsidian broad sword for he had abandoned the gorgons arm a long time ago, guess its time for me to take this thing on he sighed to himself as he drew his scythe. "ENOUGH, i shall take him alone," volf instructed his minions as they retreated; soon forming a circle as even the dragons landed to watch as two titans of the night go at a battle to the death. the battle wore on for hours as neither could get a up hand on each other, but they had given minor injuries to the opposed. vatry had a medium cut along his jaw and a few small cuts along his arms, but the werewolf had a long thin cut along his ribs and a stab wound in his arm. "you're good at this," volf complimented as vatry tried a bold overhead smash "you're not bad yourself," vatry complimented as he nimbly jumped back from a horizontal slash soon the two were in a dead lock as they pushed against each other with their weapons trying to over power the other, but not succeeding. soon however a light appeared on the horizon and vatry groaned as he felt himself weakening, but to his surprise, volf drew back as well as he to was beginning to weaken. "it seems that we must cut this short, but i had a good battle." volf said as he sheathed his scythe "it was interesting" vatry replied "you have earned the respect of this old wolf" "as you have earned mine" "WE ARE DONE HERE, OUR POWER WEAKENS AND NOW WE MUST FLEE BACK TO THE FOREST" volf commanded to his troops as the dragons just gawked in amazement that the entire werewolf army just up and left them. "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!", the leader of the dragons asked "we are done here, if we fight the rest will surely finish us off." "their two greatest allies are down, so now its our chance to finish them" "Fool, you forget about the princess of the sun and moon" POV change Luna "Sister, it seems as thought the day has driven away the werewolf group, but we still have the dragons to fight." Luna commented. "Do not worry Luna, the shield around us can hold from what ever attacks the dragons throw at us." Celestia replied as a massive boulder crashed against the shield, it had no effect. "how much longer must we hold the shield?" twilight asked "I don't know, i don't know." Celestia said grimly Things did indeed look grim as the dragons began a re-group, occasionally looking at the shield and the weakened vatry, but soon Celestia's horn glowed and the sun came up with vatry bowing at the shield slowly turning to stone, but Luna soon got an idea, and a risky one. "Sister, i may have a spell to temporarily keep vatry from becoming stone, but i fear it might turn him to stone forever." Luna spoke fast "If it is the one you are thinking about, then use it but we need to ask vatry" Celestia stated "use it" vatry said soon Luna's horn started glowing as she started to sing a hollowed voice daylight's end, but as she sang the stone already there started to retract and he started to glow, brighter, and brighter until there was a flash and luna stopped singing, but fainted as well.