The smoke cleared up from where Senper had tried to dive bomb Luna and it revealed a huge hole in the stone floor.
Luna looked at the hole curiously, 'He must be hiding there... How are We supposed to get him out?'
Luna weighed her options, 'We cannot allow him time to come up with a new strategy, so We shall follow him instead. That's the best choice We've got!'
Luna's mane began to move around her form and soon she was a small navy blue tornado and then she went down the hole. Luna landed on the first floor and the tornado disappeared around her. Her navy blue magic lit up the area and revealed Senper.
“I thought that you wouldn't follow me down here, but I suppose that I should have expected more from the Night Goddess! No matter! I will still succeed in helping take down the Dragon Slayer!” Senper showed his teeth off as a red light filled the area from below Senper.
“I made a dragon circle just for such an occasion! This one will help me become stronger!” Senper roared as his body began to become smaller and his wings began to shrink in size a bit.
His muscles became a bit more compact as the red light began to fade out, “Now it's time for you to die, Princess!”
Senper was about to move forward when he realized something, “Almost forgot!” He moved his left clawed hand to his back something sprang out of the top of his back. Senper grabbed the object and began to pull.
As he pulled the object, it began to grow longer until he finally got to ripping it completely out of his back. Senper went down on one knee, 'Painful as always... But I can work through that pain!' His eyes made contact with the Princess of the Night and found that there was some small bit of horror in those deep blue eyes.
Senper began to laugh, “How do you like my Dragon Bone Sword?! It takes all of the unnecessary bones that were in my larger body and makes those into this amazingly strong blade! I'll break your swords in half with this!”
Luna raised both of her swords, “Thee are entitled to any weapon thou wishes to use against Us, but be warned that We will not take mercy on thou!”
Senper nodded in recognition, “Whatever, I'll be the one not taking mercy on a poor soul today! Now fight me!”
Senper raised his bone sword and charged Luna. Luna raised her swords in defense and Senper smashed his blade against her swords. The clash caused dust to rise up from the ground around them. Luna took the offensive and began to attack with practiced strike after strike of her blades.
Senper guarded against each blow while backing away from the Lunar Regent, 'She'll continue until she messes up, then I'll gain the upper claw!'
Luna continued making strikes against Senper and forcing him back further. Luna then stopped using both swords and started attacking with only one. The other sword began to glow brighter as her magic began to strengthen the blade.
'What's she doing with that?!' Senper was still on guard despite the fact she had taken to using one blade.
Senper watched as the sword that had been taken out of combat came down at an angle towards him, 'Forget close combat! I'm moving all the way back!' Senper moved back quickly as the intensified power sword moved past where he had just been and then that sword hit the inside wall just to the left of Luna.
As soon as he sword made contact and explosion boomed the entire part of the wall out. Rocks flew out into the grounds and dust spread from one hit of Luna's blade.
'How did she do that?!' Senper asked himself.
Luna pulled back the sword and clashed both her blades together, “What did thou think of that?!” Luna asked with a small smile.
“I cannot lie, that was impressive...” Senper trailed off as several guards looked up at the wall.
“It's Princess Luna!” One guard shouted.
“Go Luna!” Another guard shouted.
“YEAH!” All the guards nearby shouted to her and Luna smiled at that.
“Ready to continue, Foal?” Luna asked Senper.
Senper gritted his teeth, “You can't insult me! I'm your killer!” Senper charged Luna once again.
He brought his sword down many times while Luna stopped each one from hitting herself, “If this is all that thou can do to Us, then thou should give up this fight!”
Senper didn't respond and instead kept up his attack. Each attack was strong, but Luna's power seemed to go for her defense as well as her attack. Each blow created strong winds and Luna's defense held strong throughout Senper's strikes.
His Dragon Bone Sword was no worse for wear, but the constant attacking was starting to slow him down, 'Damn! I can't keep this up forever!'
Luna felt one of the blows and knew that he was weakening, 'Time to end this hapless pursuit...'
Luna swung her first sword and knocked away the Dragon Bone Sword. Then she clashed her swords together, “Double Full Moon Slash!” The swords glowed with white energy as they slashed an X mark right through Senper's body.
Senper dropped his sword and fell to the ground. The sword continued to fall until it hit the ground outside the area of the Eastern Wall. His body wept blood as Luna sheathed her weapons.
“It was a valiant effort, but thou was just not prepared for Us.” Luna said as she opened her wings and flew down to where a group of soldiers were.
Luna activated her horn and carried the body down with her magic, “He is not a threat any longer, We shall continue to fight the other dragons. Fare thee well, for now.” Luna turned into a blue tornado and went into the crowd to look for the remaining dragons.
~Celestia's bout~
Celestia's heavenly spear fought off two dragons at once, “Are you both sure that this is a good idea?” she questioned both of them as they dodged her attacks.
The one called Clawface roared, “You're going to mess up and then you'll see what me and Phlesh are made of!”
Phlesh agreed, “Pony Princess! You're going to be made an example of!”
Despite their words, Celestia still made them stay on their defense. Her heavenly spear cracked the earth around their feet and every swing made them tremble in awe of it's magnificent power.
Clawface looked over at Phlesh, “We need to use our Dragon Magic! I'll distract her while you make the circle! Get started!”
Celestia had heard every word, “I won't let that happen!” She swung her spear into the air and fire sparked from the tip.
“Burning Heaven!” She stabbed downward as Clawface stopped it with his scaled hands, “I can only hold her off for a minute so draw fast!”
Phlesh began to make the runes needed to increase their strength, “Almost there, Clawface! Just hold on!”
Celestia's power began to rise faster and the scales on Clawface's hand begun steam up. Phlesh continued drawing despite the added pressure.
'Must get the runes perfect, or it's going to be all over for us!' Phlesh thought to himself as Clawface began to lose the battle of strength.
Celestia pushed down her spear as she felt the end approaching fast, 'It was only a matter of time...' was her only thought as the spear burned brighter.
Clawface felt his feet dig into the ground and then smash into the ground as the weight grew, “Come on! Hurry up!”
“I'm trying!” Phlesh stated as he finally got to the end.
“It's finished!” Phlesh then got up and ran over to Clawface. Phlesh grabbed Clawface's tail and dragged him from the spear that then crashed into the ground where Clawface had stood recently.
Earth uprooted around the area where the spear stood out from the ground. Celestia smiled as she watched the two dragons gather around the circle. She ripped her spear out of the ground and looked at it.
'Not even a scratch on it... I wonder if these two will be stronger after this...' Celestia turned to watch them again as black lightning filled the area around them.
Celestia recognized it instantly, 'This is a power that combines two beings! Their strength will be doubled or possibly be even higher than that! It's perfect! I haven't been able to cut loose in many years!'
Celestia had protected her little ponies for many generations and she had always acted so regally when she was around them. Celestia knew that she would never be able to act differently or fight like she had over 1500 years ago.
'But now, I can finally use my strength to do both! A real opponent... Just what I've been needing! Sure, I could have fun at the Gala by having my student and her friends show up. I could also do surprise visits to Ponyville and even prank the guards! But never have I gotten to fight...' Celestia thought to when Nightmare Moon had surprised her.
'I hadn't been able to fight then either... Now, I'll be able to show the power of the sun!' Celestia finished as the transformation on the dragon's end appeared to have stopped.
“We are the strongest! We are... What are we? A name? I need a name! You there, Pony Princess! What's a good name for me?!” The fused dragon asked Celestia.
Celestia's smile widened, 'He's asking me for a name?'
Celestia pondered for a second and then the sun turned on in her head, “I have a name for you! Your name is, Griaule! What do you think?!” Celestia asked her foe.
“Griaule huh? Sounds perfect! It's the perfect title for a powerful dragon like me!” Griaule exclaimed to Celestia.
Celestia laughed, “Yes, perfect! Now we should continue this fight from where we left off!” Celestia finished as she raised her Battle Spear once again.
Griaule felt the heat that came off the spear and he grinned with all his teeth, “Of course! Are you ready, Pony?!”
“I'm always ready...” Celestia trailed off as she galloped forward with her spear pointing at Griaule.
Griaule dodged and then leaped at her with his claws outstretched. Celestia stopped his claws with her magic and threw him backward. She then righted her spear and charged him again. Griaule reacted quickly and grabbed the spear with one hand.
The impact of Celestia's spear being caught by his hand tore up the rock behind Griaule, “For a Pony, you fight well!”
“I have to say the same about you! I've never had such fun since the times of old! I feel my battle instincts resurfacing and all the training that I had done is still there! I feel so alive!” Celestia exclaimed as Griaule let go of her spear and she leaped back.
Griaule got up on his legs, “I'm about to get serious! Let's go!”
'Serious huh? Maybe I should stop playing too...' Celestia thought as Griaule grabbed he spear and pulled himself forward using it as an anchor.
Griaule sliced down her side and drew blood from the Solar Regent. He then knocked her hooves from under her and then turned quickly. He caught her with his tail and sent Celestia flying into the western wall.
“Yes, this new form is stronger than I thought! I just put the Pony through a wall!” Griaule laughed in triumph.
“So, you thought that it was over?”
Griaule turned his head to the Pony he had just proclaimed victory over, 'She's still walking?!'
Indeed, Celestia walked out of the smoke and dust that had clouded the air around her. There was something different about her, 'Is fire rolling off her coat?!'
Celestia blazed as she tapped into her true power, “I'm at fifty percent of my full strength now. I was using fifteen percent earlier, I'd suggest that you give up while you have the chance.” Celestia stated simply as her spear teleported into her magical grasp.
As soon as the magic had touched the spear it burst into flames!
“Fifteen percent?! Impossible! Even in this form?! I was using all that I had!” Griaule roared as Celestia smiled serenely.
“All that you had? That was equivalent to twenty-five percent of my power which is why I ended up in that wall at 15 percent... Maybe you weren't the opponent that I was looking for in my dreams... I'm sorry to have wasted time letting you power up... Allow me to end your life, Griaule.” Celestia said as she moved toward Griaule.
Griaule looked around, “Where did you go?!”
“Right here.”
Griaule felt the spear penetrate through his body and out the other side of his back. Then he saw a strange light, 'Is this... home?' He walked towards it and began to run faster and faster.
Celestia pulled her spear out of his body, 'In the end, he saw the light. I wish him well...'
As Griaule's body fell to the ground no blood poured from it. His insides had been seared shut from the burning heat of Heaven's Spear.
'I hope that Eight's doing alright.'
~Eight and Typhon's Bout~
Eight slashed down the side of Typhon and then he disappeared and reappeared a few steps back from Typhon. Typhon clutched his left side and fell down only to catch himself with his left leg. Blood dripped down his side as he winced in pain.
“Nice shot, consider that the only shot you're going to get, Dragon Slayer.” Typhon said as he smirked.
Eight knew he could use the spell again to increase his speed to even greater heights, but in this world, he seemed to only weaken when casting spells.
'I don't know how many times that I can keep doing this! If he can get stronger, than this might be harder than I ever thought it could be! I just gotta keep attacking, one misstep and it's all over!' Eight ran and then disappeared.
Typhon looked around and then he turned around, “Found you!” Typhon slashed and he caught air.
“He's not there!” Typhon looked around and then found himself being slashed from the front.
“Alright! Thanks Jessica!” Eight yelled as he disappeared again from the slashing claws of Typhon.
'That little bastard! I've got to take him down quickly!' Typhon thought as he closed his eyes.
'He'll appear if I think clearly and reach out...' Typhon thought as began to feel the air around himself.
The air picked up around his right wing, 'Gotcha.'
Typhon grabbed Eight's arm and threw him down in front of himself onto the ground. He then proceeded to smash Eight into the ground with his foot, but Eight quickly moved out of harms way.
Eight then moved back several feet, “How'd you get me? I was surely moving faster than you could track!”
Typhon laughed, “You were, but I was able to pick you out using the wind! You're fast, but you don't know true speed! Since I'm growing tired of this fight, I think it's time for my true form! Don't you think so?!” Typhon finished as he reached around and scratched his back.
“Are you ready for this? I've practiced it so often that I now control it, I've been holding back the whole time since I got here. If you thought your speed boost was impressive then this will shock you!” Typhon roared as reached around his back again.
Suddenly blue lightning coursed from his back, Typhon roared loudly as stone and dust broke apart where he stood. His body began to shrink as his body gained muscle.
Eight watched as the blue light engulfed the dragon and his power resonated along the stones. Eight's eyes widened from as the lightning spread outward.
Celestia looked over in the direction of blue light, but saw the smoke covering the western wall above herself, 'Eight, I won't be able to help you! I must help the pony stuck inside the smoke cloud!' she flew upward towards the smoke.
Luna noticed another group of guards dealing with another dragon and she ignored the blue light, 'You are on your own, Eight. Not that I had any plans to help you...' Luna flew off towards the last dragon.
Eight watched as the light began to fade away, 'This is it...'
In the middle of the destroyed area, Typhon stood while glaring at Eight. His body had shrunken, but he was still quite a bit taller than Eight. His body seemed to have bigger muscles, but only just a bit.
“Are you impressed? Don't bother being impressed, the feeling won't last very long. Trust me...” Typhon said to Eight who continued to stand in one spot.
“This form has a great power that goes with the six eggs born from the greatest dragon of all time, Timaeus.” Typhon said as Eight looked confused.
“What power? I don't see anything other than the body change!” Eight said as Typhon smiled.
“This power...” Typhon trailed off as he moved towards Eight.
Eight never had a chance to move as he found himself staring at claws pointing at his neck, “The power of speed beyond all creatures, it truly is the greatest thing about me.” Typhon said as he reappeared where he had been standing before he had moved.
'No way! The air didn't even move around him! I couldn't feel anything or see his movements! Not even with accelerate boosting me! What do I do?!' Eight thought as Typhon smiled.
“You better do something quickly or you might die today... Your move!” Typhon laughed while waiting for the Dragon Slayer to do something.
'I could try using accelerate again! Or I could get my tension up... Yeah, that's what I'll do!' Eight then began to start focusing.
His strength rose up and a purple energy began to form around himself, 'What is he doing? What's that purple light?' Typhon questioned in his mind.
Eight's body began to bulk up slightly, 'Five times tension!' The light grew a bit brighter as his muscles took on a more pronounced look.
The stone around himself was breaking apart a bit, 'Twenty times tension!' The stones flew up more at the sudden change in power.
Eight was still powering himself up while Typhon watched, 'Is this the enemy that I've waited for? Will he be fast enough to attack me? I'll find out soon enough...' Typhon trailed off as Eight reached higher.
'Just a little bit longer!' Eight thought as his strength reached higher.
'Fifty times tension!' Eight's aura was reaching farther outside the area where he powered up. His bandana flew off his head from the intense winds that surrounded himself.
'Time to go for it all!' Eight thought as his hair began to fly up. A violet aura encased himself as he finally reached the end of his powerful transformation.
'One-Hundred times tension!' Eight looked at Typhon with violet flashing eyes.
“I'm ready! Accelerate!” Eight cast the spell and then he disappeared.
Typhon disappeared also and the battlefield became quiet. Then, a clash of claw and sword hit the air as Eight was attacked by Typhon.
Eight pushed him back and then backed off, 'He's still too much! Even when I'm at this level!' Typhon blasted forward and smashed into Eight's shield.
The shield was knocked out of Eight's grasp and landed a few feet away from the fighters. Typhon then prepared to knock away the Dragovian Sword, but Eight dropped it himself.
“GET BACK! MULTIFISTS!” Typhon was overwhelmed by what appeared to be four fists knocking himself back.
'Did he attack me with his bare hands?! That's imposs-' A fist knocked into his chest and pushed him further back.
Eight jumped back and got his sword, “Prepare to die!” Eight flew forward at a great speed and attacked.
Typhon caught his blade, 'What?!'
Typhon them smashed his fist into Eight's side. He hit the ground hard and then his Dragovian Sword was put against the back of his neck.
“Catch me off guard once, shame on you. Trying to finish me off in one shot? A fools dream. Time to say goodbye.” Typhon pulled the blade into the air and swung downward only for it to be knocked out of his hand.
“He's not done yet! Eight! Catch this!” Eight looked up and saw Shining Armor and then saw a sword being thrown at him.
'The Dragon Slayer?! I forgot about that sword!' Eight pushed Typhon off and ran forward. He caught the hilt of the blade and looked at it.
The red blade was wide and long, a visage of a dragon was on the side of the hilt. It had ruby eyes on the small dragon shaped hilt. The blade had markings on each side of it's red steel.
“How did you get this?!” Eight asked Shining who smiled.
“I looked through your bag! Now watch out! Typhon's attacking!” Shining yelled as Eight turned around and caught the Dragovian Sword with the Dragon Slayer.
Typhon smirked, “This blade is amazing! I think that I'll keep it!”
Eight pushed Typhon back and then he made a run for the wall behind them both, 'I need a new way to fight! With this extra speed, I should be able to lure him into following me! Let's see if I'm correct!'
Eight sped toward the wall while Typhon figured out an idea of what the Dragon Slayer was doing, 'Trying to gain new ground? Well, I won't allow it!'
Typhon charged forward and he passed Eight, then he stopped in front of Eight's path. Eight changed direction immediately and went for the wall once again. Typhon charged for the wall and saw the Dragon Slayer jump onto the wall.
Eight turned around and smiled before turning around running on the wall. He sped off while using the difference in gravity to his advantage.
'I gotta time this right! I only have one chance to use this move! Then it should be over!' Eight turned around and saw Typhon running on the ground to match Eight.
'Perfect! It's just like I thought!' Eight smiled and then began to focus all of his magic power.
He felt electricity building around himself as he felt an incredible boost of strength, 'I haven't used this for a few days at the most, but it should be fine!'
Eight jumped off the wall as his aura turned from bright violet to a great blue with lightning arcing around himself. Eight used gravity to speed himself up as he wielded his sword.
Typhon was ready to defend himself with the Dragovian Sword, but Eight smashed his Dragon Slayer into Typhon's hand. Eight let go of his own blade and Typhon lost hold of the Dragovian Sword.
“What?! No!” Typhon then watched as the blue light got brighter around the Dragon Slayer.
“Dragon Soul!” A bright blue dragon of powerful electricity formed around Eight and charged at Typhon.
“AGGGHHHHHH!” Typhon was swallowed by the dragon as stones churned themselves up from the ground around the massive attack.
A white light followed after the blue light and swallowed the area in an explosion. The guards stopped fighting to watch the light as it slowly faded from the area.
Smoke rose from the impact crater and nobody could be seen thanks to it. Shining galloped towards the smoke and used his magic to start clearing up the area, “Eight?! Eight! Hey! Can you hear me?!”
Shining slid down into the crater despite his wounds from the battle he had been involved in earlier. He trotted around the inside and used his magic to blow away more smoke.
'This isn't good! Where could he have disappeared to?!' Shining continued looking around the impact crater.
Shining powered up his horn and used a magic known only to a few ponies in Equestria or so he assumed, 'Cadence, can you hear me? I need your help!'
Cadence was on the other side of the wall about to join Luna in her fight against one of the two last dragons, but she felt the distress that Shining gave off and she opened her wings in order to go help him.
'Yes, I hear you! What do you need?' Cadence asked she flew towards the magic that called to her.
'I need you to do a fly over and find Eight! I'm not sure if he's in the crater or somewhere farther down.' Shining thought to her as Cadence began to cover the area.
Cadence looked carefully and found them easily, 'Shining! Both Typhon and Eight lay farther down the impact area! They're both not moving!' Cadence flew down towards the area and then landed.
Shining activated his horn and teleported to her, “Hey, Cady! Thanks for helping!” Shining said as Cadence smiled.
“It's never any problem.” Cadence said as Shining nuzzled her.
Cadance leaned into it, but then Shining stopped, “We need to see if Eight's alright.” Shining walked over with Cadence following.
Eight's eyes were open and he smiled at the sight of Shining and Cadence, “Heh, Is he finished?”
Shining took a glance at Typhon, “He doesn't seem to be moving... We'll have the guards neutralize him if he is alive. What about yourself? Do you feel alright?” Shining asked Eight.
“Yeah, there's a few wounds from Typhon, but I'll manage...” Eight trailed off with a small cough.
Cadence smiled, “You did an amazing job! I can't believe you took him down like that!”
Eight smiled too, “I guess so...”
“Just because you took down that weakling doesn't mean anything...” A voice trailed off as Eight, Shining, and Cadence looked at a new figure standing next to Typhon's body.
“He's still breathing too... Maybe you're not the Dragon Slayer that I thought you were...” The figure pulled out a sword and then put the tip of his blade against Typhon's neck.
“This is what you're supposed to have done for me, but I guess I'll have to dirty my blades with his inferior blood.” The tip then sunk into the neck of Typhon.
Then the figure ripped the blade across which completely severed Typhon's neck from his body.
“Now you'll face me...”