//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: The Demon, The Dragon, And The Dualform // Story: Antasma's Reincarnation // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// After the manga picture reverted back to the normal FIM graphics, Sharagan crashed into Twilight and Sombra's new forms, knocking all 3 combatants backwards through the gale-like winds. "Well now, you two are putting up quite a bit more fight than usual." Sharagan said as he was recovering from his knockback, "No-one's been able to survive a demonic charge and come out unharmed. This must be why Lord Antasma is powering up in his new castle." "Powering up?" Twilight asked him. "Didn't your mother tell you that it's rude to eavesdrop?!" Sharagan said as he fired a sword shockwave from his demon swords, only for Sombra to intercept it with his dark magics, "You are quite annoying now!" The battle raged on, Sombra and Twilight were now chasing the demon through the suddenly stormy sky, dodging streaks of lightning and demonic magics to catch up to him. When they eventually caught up to him standing on top of another enormous ship, they turned into meteors and shot themselves at him, causing him to fly off of his ship before it was completely torn to pieces by the purple and black meteors before exploding in a fiery explosion. "You sunk my flagship?!" Sharagan said as his demonic aura magnified itself into a dark purple coloured storm, "YOU'RE DEAD, LITTLE HORSIES!!!!!!" He charged at them both once more. Only this time he was slashing with his swords like there was no tomorrow, shooting thousands and thousands of black shockwaves, most of which missed them both. As soon as he was in range, Sharagan started a sword-o-war battle with Twilight, in which they were both slashing forward, trying to push the other back and slash them into pieces. "YOU FOOLISH PURPLE HORSE!" He said whilst struggling to push back Twilight, "YOU THINK YOU CAN MEDDLE IN LORD ANTASMA'S PLANS?!" "I'm not gonna sit idly by and watch my home burn!" Twilight said in a spiteful response. Sharagan pushed her sword out of the way and teleported to Sombra with blades in hand. "Sombra. You're a washed up fearmonger, ain't you?" He said once he rematerialized in front of the pony turned dragon, "You let mere ponies stop you, how pathetic! You will never match Antasma's power!" Sombra simply ignored his taunt and began slashing a thousands swings a minute, hoping to carve the demon into thousands of tiny pieces. His chances were shattered when Sharagan pulled up a forcefield mere split seconds before the first slash even hit. After the 800th hit however, the forcefield around Sharagan shattered, and the remaining 200 slashes brutally carved his demonic form up, but not to the point of defeat. He was still very bruised and cut from that onslaught of sword steel. "ARGH!" He screamed in agony as the cuts started to sink in, "You're seriously trying to defeat me?! Pathetic. Now i see that there's no holding back for our final 1-on-1!" Sharagan started charging up a powerful spell in his new demonic claws. After a few moments of dark magic and archaic rune reading, Sharagan slammed his hands together. The clap he made created a shockwave of dark magic that struck everywhere in the sky and on the ground. The force of this spell was so powerful, that it sent Twilight flying into the castle, causing it to collapse into a million crystalline pieces. "With your castle ruined, the heart is mine!" He said as the Crystal Heart materialized above the wrecked castle, "And now, to end this little facade once and for all!" He charged at the heart, with a black meteor-like veil of dark magic flowing around him, as if to crash the heart into his swords. But moments before he reached the heart, Twilight and Sombra teleported in front of him and countered his dark magic meteor with their own magical meteor charge. "You fiendish little equines!!!!" he said as he was pushing back Sombra and Twilight's meteors, "Nothing will stop the ever-growing power of Lord Antasma!!!!!" "After we crush you, he's next!" Sombra said as he knocked back Sharagan into one of his own ships, causing it to explode just like the first one. "THAT TEARS IT!!!!!" He shouted as he emerged from the almost non-existant ship with an enormous black fireball in hands, "DIE, LITTLE PONIES!!!!!!!" As he hurled the meteor spell at them, Twilight and Sombra were suddenly expelling their own intensified auras. As their magical veils grew and grew with power, they eventually held their right hands in claw-like forms and shouted, "Dark-Light Annihilator Cannon, FIRE!!!!!" Their auras were then re-shaped into rainbow and black orbs. Once these balls were a decent size, they clapped the orbs together and took up an hadouken stance. Only when the meteor was moments from hitting them, did they push the massive ball forward, only for it to rapidly change into an enormous dark purple laser. This laser completely and utterly obliterated the black meteor, and was now heading straight for Sharagan. Before he could even react though, he was wrapped in the laser's energy, causing his body to burn a purple flame before spontaneously combusting in the wake of the massive beam. "NO!!!! WHY?!?!?! HOW?!?!?!? THIS IS NOT HOW I WAS MEANT TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Were his last words before he screamed in agony as the purple flames comsumed him. After Sharagan vanished off of the face of the planet, the spaceships he brought with him started to fall out of the sky after being struck by the hadouken as well. Thousands and thousands of burning metal was falling on to the nearby fields, and suddenly dissapearing in enormous balls of fire. "Well, that settles that." Twilight said as she lifted the heart with her horn aura, "Oops, almost forgot something. I can't stay in this form for long, or else my Element Of Magic will burn itself out and become nothing more than a worthless tiara." "I might as well change back as well." Sombra said as he and Twilight were returning to their ponyforms, "It would be a shame to burn out my dark powers before we reach Antasma." "Now that we have the Crystal Heart, we can fix this mess." She said as she began to fill it with otherworldly magic, causing it to turn magenta coloured, just like her coat, "If we can defeat Antasma, and add his dead remnants to the heart, it would cause a esuna, reversing all the damage he and his kind have done to Equestria." "There's one problem though." Sombra interrupted, "The heart also needs energy from the other members of Antasma's army. Since Sharagan pointed out he was 4th class, there's no doubt there will be more humans where he came from. Who knows? Maybe these others will be even stronger than what we've just beaten. But nontheless, we need to add all of the dead humans to the heart, and leave Antasma for last." "The others will no doubt be in his castle." Twilight said, "They must be waiting for us, waiting to spring a trap on us." "Then our only goal is to draw the other humans out of the castle and challenge them out in the open." Sombra said as Sharagan's purple demon soul was added to the heart, "The only way to do that though, is to return fire." "You mean-" "Yes. We attack Antasma's castle, forcing him to draw out the other commanders of his army. And when that happens, we destroy them all at once!" _______________________________________________________ Antasma was looking down from his chair, eyeing down his next leader, "Speak your name and titles for vis monarch please." The figure said, "My name is Lieria. Commander 3rd Class of the dark army of Antasma. Godlike in the arcane arts, and lord of deception." "A trickster eh?" Antasma said after he had stopped, "Tell me, are you good at cravting vorcevields?" "Why do you ask?" "I've just been given vord vat vose little equines are trying to storm ve castle. And vat is vhy i've arranged for you to shield me from vose foolish ponies. If vat shield goes down, it's game over for me! And after losing to plumbers, i certainly don't vant to have insult added to injury! Got it?!" "Yes Master Antasma. I will deploy the gaia-class fleet at once." "One more ving before you go." he said as he handed the human two enormous staves, "Take vese. I call vem the staves of utopia and dystopia. One traps those ponies in their own little heavens, and ve other one locks vem in ve darkness of nightmares. Now you may go. "Very well." "Let's play a little game called Up-Yours-Ponies!"