Chapter 8 – The worthless words.
The room still growing changes shades as you feel your tingling sensation building under your coat...
"Have had playing
we fun pretend?"
The voice echos around the glass panels and walls of the room as Discord's laugh burns inside of you. Your eyes are determined and your body follows suit as you watch a shadowy spot form in the center of the room.
You look over the spot as the voice around the room continues to bounce,
"I think you have played long enough!"
The shadowy spot in the floor begins to rise a little as the laugh rings against the stain glass windows. But your unaffected by the chiming as the form starts to become real in front of you.
The voice no longer plays off the walls as a shifty shape pops from the ground, "Lets play another kind of game shall we? You get the first move."
Discord's body starts to take full likeness as the shadows around him disappear, but his multicolored and mismatched body seems different and his eyes glow a bright green like the eyes you saw in the storm outside of the city.
You cock a smile to Discord as you hold the magic in you at bay, "Ya, lets play a game Sombra."
Discord's smile slightly fades from his face as you don't hold back and jerk your head forward, a straight shot bolt of purple and green light streams to the unmoving target.
The bolt clashes against Discord as he gives a screaching howl. Theres a moment of nothing but his scream as it rings in the room but only a moment, the glass windows surrounding you are blown inwards as Discord's scream continues to blow like the storm outside.
You bring your left leg over your eyes in reaction to the sound of the shattering glass. You hold them tightly as you listen to the fine sounds of the shattered pieces hitting the marble floor beneath you.
But right as you hear the sound stop your body is rushed and your knocked to your back. Your eyes fly open as you look to the black thrashing mass in front of you.
You give a loud grunt as you hold your right leg to the changling that has pounced onto you. The bug like pony furiously chomping its drooly jaws at you as you hold it from your body. But its sharp blue bug eyes have been replaced with the same bright green glow as Discords, but as the creature continues to lunge its ever growing closer jaws to you, you bring your back legs under it as you smile to the small pony.
Your motion is quick as you buck the pony off of you.
The changeling is set flying from your body and its head makes contact with the white glass ridden marble flooring.
Your movements are as quick as your right leg would let you be as you bring your body up to your hooves. The changeling is still on the ground as you steady your stance, you waste no time as you follow through your motion once more. But the bolt that is sent from your body now is a brighter green jagged stream and it leave your body feeling a little weak. Never the less the bolt strikes against the changeling and the creature lets out a pained squeal as it's dark body is coated in the magic.
You watch with a slight tired pant as you look over the changelings coat almost take on a boiling effect. But the sight is quickly changed as the black body is soaked into the ground and turned back into nothing more than a shadow like spot on the ground.
You look around the now black shaded room as you call out to the walls or whatever else will listen, your voice is cocky and your mind is throbbing in self confidence as your words are expelled, "Thats what you are Sombra a shadow!"
The adrenaline in your body soaks over you as you look around the room wishing and hoping for a response, "Well?!"
But after a few moments theres no response and your left panting in the glass stained room by yourself with nothing but the spot on the ground. Your body and mind starts to calm down as you drift your eyes around the room holding your early thought, "Twilight?!"
Again the room gives a silent faint echo back to you.
"Twilight?!" You call out again as you wait for a response.
After the next few moments of again silence you start to move your body towards the spot on the floor. But you stop as you hear a deep booming voice, "You are a strange pony..."
Your breathing stops as you try to pinpoint the voice in the room.
The spot on the floor gives a bubbling sound like the magic Twilight used to bring you two down here as a figure takes shape in it.
You look over the mass with a closed mouth and a silent mind as you watch a stallion's form taking hold.
"Tell me strange pony, has a thousand years really lead to hornless unicorns?"
The shadowy figure starts to loss the faded blackness as a stallion emerges in a fading vail. You look over the stallion as you calm your breathing. His body doesn't even resemble a regular pony...or even Chrysalis, the stallion looks more like a lion, his teeth are sharp and extend from his mouth in a canine like curve. Sombra is dressed in a silver and red suit of armor and his mane is a long pure black and the unicorn's horn is a red tipped extension of his head; but you focus more on this pony's eyes as you wait for him to speak again, his eyes are bright green with a almost lizard like deep orange and vivid red pupil that leads into a wispy fading purple mist at the edge of each eye.
His voice starts up but his mouth doesn't move at all, "Well unicorn earth pony, are you going to answer your ki..-"
Before his booming voice is done you send a flaming wall of magic toward where he stands. But the stallion's body is turned to nothing more than a trail of smoke and eyes as he teleports directly in front of you. His face is shown in a smile as you feel a tight grab tighten around your body.
You give a pain groan as you try to move through the strong magic grasp, but you're unable to move and even breathing has become a strain for you.
The wisp from his eyes flicker intensely as his booming voice rings in your head, "Tell me pony...what do you fear?"
You grind your teeth unable to really talk as his voice ricochets in you, "...Relinquish your thoughts to me my little strange pony as I have nothing to hold over you."
The greens of his eyes glow a bit brighter as his voice brings you to the calmness you felt outside of the dome when you first saw him.
Your mind races as thoughts of the last months run through your mind, the spell you're feeling is the same spell as Twilight's only its being doubled and run through your mind searching only for pain and fear. You give a few short breaths as you try to take in any air, it feels like your body is being drained but theres nothing you can do about it.
Sombra smiles as his voice in your head trumps the mind racing, "What do you fear...is it being alone like you oh so are...or is your fear lay with the mare in your mind..." His voice stops as he squints his eyes to you, "...IS this it, your fear is not of yourself but of this mare...Twilight is it?"
Your face doesn't even twinge at his words as you still are too busy trying to take in a steady bit of air.
"No.?..." His eyes flutter a little as he moves his face a bit closer, "Then what of this other pony..." The sharp toothed smile traces over his mouth as his words ring in your head, "Violet?"
You shift your eyes to him as the word hits and rolls in your head.
The booming voice in your mind breaks into a laugh as Sombra's hold of you drops and you fall to your front legs, "Yes, Violet is whom you hold your fears for."
You take a few moments to regain yourself as you stand up, "Y...You can't use that...against me."
Sombra cocks his eye to you as he waits for you to finish.
"b-because I won't let you near her." You take up a strong hoof planted stance as you look over the pony in pure defensive anger.
Sombra shifts his head to one side as he smiles, "And who said you would be there to stop me?"
Your breathing quivers a little as you feel your magic coming back to you.
"Twilight"
Your ears pick up to the low young boy voice as you feel your magic stopping.
"Twi-light!"
The sight of Sombra begins to fade as he gives you a smile, his voice rings one more time through you as he talks, "Lets share your anguish...."
End of chapter 8