September 14th 1006, Post Nightmare Moon.
September 14th 1006, Post Nightmare Moon.
Sweetie Belle made her way down the middle of the market street, flanked on either side by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
"Oh that trip to the spa was wonderful." Diamond sighed as she stretched her neck, a dumb smile plastered across her face.
Silver Spoon nodded, her own expression making her seem as though she just visited heaven.
"Speak for yourself, I don't know what that masseuse was thinking.." Sweetie groaned. "Thank the princess the spa bath was right after that."
"Oh but that sauna was amazing...your sister really knows how to set up a spa day Sweetie." Silver smiled
"The sauna? I adored that mudbath!" Diamond exclaimed. "And that hooficure..." the pink filly heaved a large sigh. "My hooves have never felt so good..."
"Oh you two are missing out on the best part though." Sweetie giggled. "A horn file and polish is the greatest feeling in Equestria!"
"Well neither of us have horns Sweetie." Silver chuckled and rolled her eyes.
"Well that's just unlucky on your part isn't it?" the unicorn filly giggled.
"Hey... you think we got rid of all the Shadows from the gems that were in town yesterday?" Silver asked as she looked at the clock tower.
"Don't think so... there was like two hundred gems in there, we only killed like twenty of them." Sweetie frowned.
"Great... so now we have a two front battle ahead of us." Diamond sighed.
Sweetie looked around the market street, a shiver running up her spine. "Hey... does it seem quiet to you two?"
The three fillies stopped in their tracks and looked about.
"Yeah... now that you mention it..." Silver shivered as she pulled her sword from the hidden scabbard on her belly.
Diamond just nodded and pulled a small glass orb from her saddlebag and threw it at the ground,grabbing the large sword that appeared on the ground in a puff of smoke.
"Thought so." Sweetie said as she stood on her hind legs and flared her horn, her tonfa's winking into existence as she got into a combat pose, Silver and Diamond following suit.
"Thweetie, Thilver, Diamond!" Twist's voice rang out in their heads. "Thank the printheth I wath able to contact you."
"Twist?" Sweetie asked as she looked around. "Where are you?"
"I'm with Applebloom and Thcootaloo. We're thurrounded by thadow's. I thummoned Helioglobath to navigate.for them, I thent a couple of bugth to find you three. can you make your way to the park outthide the thchool?" Twist asked.
"Yeah...we should be able to make it there hopefully, unless we run into any trouble or a large Shadow horde." Diamond affirmed, hefting her great sword over her shoulder.
"Okay... thank you girlth, hopefully we'll thee you thoon." Twist said before the trio of ladybugs that had been perched, unseen on their ears flew off.
'Sweetie! Duck!'
In one move Sweetie shoved Diamond and Silver away and dropped to her belly.
A split second later a loud bang rang out and something impacted the cart in front of Sweetie,splintering it.
"Damn it... how did you dodge that?" A familiar voice sounded from behind the trio of the fillies, who all stood up and turned to face the newcomer.
"Tempestas! Magarula!" Scootaloo yelled as she thrust her hoof through the floating blue card that appeared before her. Freeing the large blue bird from her body, allowing it to flick it's tail forward and launch a quintet of green tornadoes at the shadows, sending them spiraling into the air and throwing the poison that Applebloom's Persona released a few seconds ago around, poisoning the Shadow's and slowing them down.
Applebloom charged forward and leaped over the barrel of one of the vehicular shadows, reaching down and grabbing the cannon with her forelegs before heaving it up and over her head,slamming it into a similar shadow with a roar.
Scootaloo let out a war cry and dove through the explosion of black mist and launched her hoof into the face of a nearby shadow that looked like it had been nailed to a spiky wheel, knocking it down. With a twitch of her right ear she launched into a backflip and drove her hindlegs down, slamming the feline shadow's face into the ground.
Applebloom dodged to the side to avoid another feline shadow's paw and threw a flurry of hoof strikes into it's belly, kocking it back before throwing one of her hindlegs out behind her and catching a small scale dead center and knocking it to the ground.
"Any word on Sweetie, Silver and Diamond there Twist?" Scootaloo asked as she backflipped across the back of the shadow she was standing on, letting the vehicle shadows blow chunks out of it for her before she charged at them and hit their barrels so hard they twisted together and exploded.
Twist shook her head from inside the large swarm of ladybugs that was her Persona. "Nothing, thomething ith blocking my ifleunthe around them."
Sweetie galloped for her life, ducking and dodging the projectiles that were destroying the wooden carts around her. She could see Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara dive into an alleyway ahead of her.
'Don't go in there. They're aiming for you.'
Sweetie nodded and raced past the two earth ponies hiding spot. Pulling up a quick shield to stop the projectile from potentially hitting her two friends, the impact causing her to stumble slightly and trip behind one of the carts.
With a shove of her magic she sent the cart rolling towards where she thought her attacker was coming from before galloping towards the fountain at the marketplace's center.
After a quick breather she circled around the fountain and readied her Persona card and getting her first good look at her attacker.