//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 - The Blur And The Shadow // Story: Equestria In Chaos Control // by chaoswisp1000 //------------------------------// Sonic And Shadow raced towards the palace watching for any ambushes or surprises. They were just at the bridge that crossed over the moat when they were caught in a bright light. Shielding his eyes Shadow could just make out the forms of armored figures, "Are those, horses?!" Shadow asked mentally. He cleared his mind of that question, for the moment , and crouched into a running position, taking off towards the wall of the palace, his jet skates igniting casting a bit of light allowing for him to see, however the light also allowed a guard to spot him. The guard quickly issued the order to "Hold that thing off!". Two creatures, that Shadow recognized as "pegasi" ,launched into the air, lances strapped to their sides. "halt, desist or you wil-", that was all the guard managed to say before Shadow struck him with his homing attack. He cracked a smile saying "this is where it gets interesting" before striking another guard down. Sonic had taken the more direct route running across the bridge, leaping over and avoiding spears as he ran. A large platoon of guards raced from around a corner and charged at him head on. Sonic knew if he didn't act he would become hedgehog on a stick, luckily he had one special trick up his sleeve, when he was a few yards away from the guards he activated his boost ability, he accelerated instantly the transparent blue cone forming around him, he charged into the guards' ranks scattering weapons and armor knocking away a few of the guards as well. The two hedgehogs met up running side by side, leaving the guards in the dust racing into the palace, eventually they came to a large room, red carpet, stone pillars, and stained glass windows, which depicted scenes Shadow and Sonic could not understand, were all included in the decor. But what caught the attention of the hedgehogs was the green chaos emerald on a pedestal next to an empty throne. "Well we found it, now lets get going" Sonic said as Shadow grabbed the emerald. "Thou shalt not be going anywhere with that!" a female voice called out, sonic and shadow turned to see two creatures, the bigger one bright white in color, the smaller one midnight blue. They both resembled a pegasus crossed with a unicorn, and both radiated power. *** Princess Luna and princess Celestia both received word of the intruders from guards positioned outside their bedrooms who. They had both rushed to the throne room where the emerald that Twilight had summoned was being kept, and seen two creatures, bipeds that had odd looking covers on the ends of their arms which resembled claws, as well as two other casings on the ends of their legs. "Thou shalt not be going anywhere with that!" Luna called out. The creatures turned surprise in their eyes, and in the moonlight Celestia could make out that one was blue with tan arms, the other was black with red stripes on the spikes coming out of the back of his head. "There is no way we are going to let you take the chaos emerald!" the blue one said, crouching slightly. "Very well, we will take it from you then" Celestia said spreading her wings out in a menacing manner. Luna charged at the black and red creature firing a bolt of arcane energy, the creature raised his hand up and swung it downwards yelling "chaos spear!" instantly a bolt of red energy launched out of his hand colliding with Luna's bolt , the two energies exploding on contact with each other. Celestia took on the blue creature, trying to hit it with a blast of energy from her horn. this however was proving to be difficult seeing as this creature could move inexplicably fast. "Your too slow!" it yelled, dodging another blast, a wide grin on its face. Celestia focused pinpointing where the creature would take its next step, and fired. The blast caught the creature off guard tripping him, he landed with a thud on his side, holding his arm as if it had been injured. Celestia smiled at her success, walking over to the fallen form of the creature "You will not be taking that emerald anywhere, not anytime soon" she said, keeping a grin on her face. "Haven't you ever been trained in combat before?" it asked, wearing a smug grin of its own, he spoke with that cocky voice from before, "cause the first rule is: never turn your back on your foe". "wha-I-" Celestia was cut off by a solid object impacting the back of her neck, she fought to stay conscious but failed, watching as the creature whirled around to face her sister Luna, before she blacked out. Luna was enraged "thou hast hurt our sister , thou shalt not be left unpunished!" she said flaring her wings, and lowering her body, as the two creatures also readied for the inevitable fight. *** Shadow and Sonic glanced at each other agreeing silently as to what they would do. Shadow charged at the figure as she charged at them. Sonic turned around racing away down the corridor of the palace, chaos emerald in his hand. The pegasus-unicorn hybrid attempted to give chase, but Shadow quickly prevented that from happening, he shot off a volley of chaos spears, trying to force the dark creature back. "thou shall have to try harder, if thou wants to best me" she taunted nimbly leaping out of the way, her wings boosting her jump. Shadow growled, he closed his eyes as the energy of chaos flowed into his body. He clutched his hand into a fist and concentrated hard. "chaos-control!" he shouted, time slowed around him as he continued his run towards the winged unicorn. Leaping up into the air behind her and swinging his foot around in a roundhouse kick. the kick connected with the back of her head, missing its mark by only meters, leaving the "princess", judging by the now-visible tiara resting against her horn, still standing. "What magic is this?!" she growled, launching at Shadow while shooting off a beam of energy. Once again Shadow activated chaos control, time slowing around him once more, allowing him to easily avoid the attack. This time though the princess reacted quicker, shooting off another beam striking Shadow plowing him into a wall, he collapsed to the floor, fur smoking, eyes closed. He heard the princess chuckle "Did thou really believe that thou could best I?" she taunted, laughing at him. Shadow growled, the princess jumped back in surprise, he felt enormous amounts of chaos energy flow into him, and his inhibitor rings unclasp and fall from his wrists clanging to the floor "Did i forget to mention, i am the ultimate life-form?" he asked his voice now an angry growl, his vision slowly being obscured by a red haze. *** Luna took a few steps back from the creature, she could feel the immense amounts of power contained within him. his body began to glow orange-red and his eyes were blank, as if somepony had taken an eraser and erased any features of his eyes and left only the whites, he hovered a few inches off the ground but he did not posses wings. "nay, this cannot be happening!" Luna thought, taking several more steps back. The power this creature possessed, it was impossible for such a thing to contain this amount of power, the only other being who she knew that held this much power was: her sister, Celestia. "Behold the ultimate power!" the creature said, disappearing in a flash of blue-green light, and re-appearing directly in front of her. She fired off some bolts of energy, but they were deflected by the creature. "Impossible!" she thought. she felt cold stone bricks press up against her back, she was cornered. She charged up one more blast, but the creature appeared directly in front of her, throwing off her concentration, he glowed brighter and leaped at her "Chaos, Blast!' he shouted, a red bubble of energy expanding outwards from him. Luna quickly put up a shield around herself, it took the brunt of the blast but crumbled after a few moments, leaving her knocked out on the floor of the throne room. *** From roughly a few miles away a figure, wearing white armor with blue designs on the hoofs, watched the bright flash of red from Canterlot Palace's throne room, and saw one of the stained glass windows shatter. She heard the shouts of guards and the shouting of commands. "Shadow, your still such a trouble-maker", She chuckled quietly, turning away and readying her teleportation spell, disappearing in a bright flash of red.