"I'm back bitch."
Celestia was stunned, this creature had killed a dozen of her guards, plus the five in Shining's squad, along with the innocent ponies. It was obvious he had no mercy.
"Fool, you revealed yourself to me,now you have nowhere to run." Celestia smiled as she charged her horn.
Shadowkin grinned an insane smile. "Run? I plan to use your ponies corpses as a chariot."
Something wasn't right, why wasn't she trying to blast him? He noticed her horn starting to glow a bright color, before shooting a big ball of light into the air: A signal.
The sound of armored hooves hitting the ground reached his ears.' A signal for help.'
The doors burst open as dozens of Guards flooded the room. Perfect, lots of targets, close quarters, and best of all.
In the dark.
Shadowkin switched his sight back to heat, as he used the shadow magic of the crystals to rush out the braziers.
He crossed his arms in an 'x' over his chest, his knife was in his sheath. He wouldn't need it. Too reflective.
the last brazier was flickering and right before the darkness overtook the room, he said two words.
"Lights out."
Shadowkin immediately phased into a shadow well above the crowd, along the windows. His vision picked out each signature as plain as day. He could hear each whisper like the wind.
"Lets get to work."
He jumped off the edge, picking out a female pegasus guard,he aimed his feet directly toward her.
When he collided with the mares body, he felt her spine and ribs fracture, then shatter. She let out a blood piercing scream all the way down to the ground, where the force of the slam, combined with Shadowkins weight, splattered her all across the ground, covering a few near guards in gore and intestinal bits.
Shadowkin turned and grabbed the nearest ponies head, gave it a twist and a pull, until it separated from the body.he hurled the head at Celestia, obliterating the skull on a corner of her throne. She shrieked.
He then put his full weight into the Slaughter, laughing and bellowing like a madman, he panicked the guards. He shattered ones face with a kick. Ripped off anothers leg and stabbed him in the neck with the jagged bone. He grabbed a pony's jaw in both hands and pulled until it's head exploded into a mass of gore.
The slaughter continued until there was a few guards left, they had all huddled in a circle, spears pointing outwards. What they didn't know, was that Shadowkin was in their little circle, pretending to be with them.
He felt a nudge on his arm.
"Hey bro, I know things have gone to shit, but, what you thinking about this?"
"Oh, I'm just thinking about which one of you to kill next."
"Wha-"
The Stallion never finished his sentence as two powerful hands splattered his skull on the wall.
Just then an idea popped in his head, he listened closely to the other two guards whisperings.
"Hey, speed strike?"
"Yeah, quick streak?"
"We-re gonna di-"
"SPEED STRIKE! I'M OVER HERE! DON'T TRUST ANYPONY ELSE, HE CHANGES FORMS!"
Shadowkin called from the other side of the room.
The pony called speed strike immediately reared back and stabbed quick streak through the back of the head.
"Eat that you-SNAP!"
The pony never even spoke as it's neck was snapped.
Shadowkin, re-lit the torches and braziers, revealing a room covered in bodies, blood, gore, and intestinal tract. And one horrified Celestia, she probably thought she'd win. Well she didn't.
Shadowkin bowed turned and walked towards the balcony, turned to face Celestia, gave her the bird.
And stepped off the balcony.