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// Requiem for a tyrant: Part two 
// Story: Return of a lost tyrant 
// by Uberdeathninja 
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Twilight and her friends arrived at a dark hollow in a cliff face. Twilight lit her horn so they could see. The hollow itself wasn't very deep for it's medium size but four reliefs were placed against the back wall. The four creatures portrayed by these reliefs were lanky and hunched, even when fully erect. each creature was unique. On the far right from the center of the back, next to the entrance, was a simple creature. It had long, pointed ears, lanky limbs, wore patchwork armor, wielded a rotten arm of someone and had a dead rat on it's head as well. The second relief was not much different from the first. It had a spaded tail, like a dragon, shorter ears, a pair of goat-like horns that curved under, a metal pauldron and metal plate leggings in addition to a loincloth, but it had a flame instead of a normal weapon.

Across the hidden door which Twilight missed, was a different creature, It had a lizard tail, frills in addition to long ears, like those on the first, makeshift, but still consistent armor, a loincloth and a pair of wrist blades. The final creature was some what odd compared to the others. It had leather armor, and frog like feet and hands as opposed to the clawed ones the previous three shared, frills instead of ears, a fish-like tail, and no weapons whatsoever, instead of adopting an intimidating pose, like the other three, It seemed to stare off into space. At the base of each of the reliefs was a circular patch of glowing discoloration. The first had a golden spot, The second a red, Third was green, and the final one was blue. Twilight approached the center of the hollow and jumped back as all four splotches erupted into ash grey stone mounds. each mound had a stone disk over the opening which radiated a small trace of the color it held. Carved into the disks was a face similar to the brown creature's, but heavily stylized. Frankly, It was an atrocious thing to look at.

"Ugh! What are these hideous creatures?" Rarity asked looking at the central disks. Suddenly an ash grey stone platform erupted from the center of the hollow. The central disk contained three triangular arms spiraling out of their ends and merging in the middle, and triangular shapes to fill the gaps between the arms. Suddenly in a flash of silvery-blue light, a note appeared on the pad.

"What's this?" Twilight more said than asked. She nearly fainted when she looked over it and saw the written equestrian language brutally ass-raped and murdered. But she steeled herself and read the note out loud:

"Der Pecksy ponsis,
IpH yOo weSh tU pruGrus fuRDer iMTu teh masTAh's toOMb, YoO muSHt caUl oWt teh miNUn tRYbes NaMz. hYnt, tEh nAMz Ar bIE Teh StaTuZe.
sEnSIrly, GiBLet."

Twilight couldn't believe it. This wasn't all of the tomb? Rainbow Dash immediately began shouting out random colors:

"Black!"
"Lavender!"
"Teal!"
"Brown!"
"Pink!"
"Grey!"
"Aqua!"
"Red!"
"Crimson!"
"Orange!"
"Gold!
"Green!"
"Purple!"
"Cyan!"
"Blue!"
"Tan!"
"White!"

"Rainbow! That's not going to work!" Twilight said. She already knew what colors she had to work with. She cleared her throat and began to recite the colors in the order she noticed them in:

"Browns! Reds! Greens! Blues!" Twilight called out. The secret door opened and the group progressed further. Their troubles were far from over though. They reached a chamber in the back of the tunnel and found some kind of evil teleporter pad. in the center. Around it, Six statues: A dwarf king, a human paladin, an elf warrior infused to a tree, a well past over-sized halfling king, an angry giant, and an envious and prideful thief. Each of the girls touched one of the statues. Rarity, the dwarf. Rainbow, the paladin. Pinkie, the halfling. Fluttershy, the elf. Apple Jack, the thief. Twilight, the giant.


Rarity vs Goldo


Rarity could only watch as the armored figure she became marched forward. Behind it, an army of red minions. She heard a voice speak:
"All that mining must have weakened the structure of this place! careful lord, You don't want end up buried in rubble and chunks of dwarf!"
She placed her army in front of several dwarven flamethrowers. These minions were completely immune to the fire, but so was their enemy. Rarity's armor used the diversion created by the reds to flank the flamethrowers an it bolted when they started steaming. Rarity stared in horror as the armor swept the minions away from the detonating specialist and all nearby explosives, then swept them over to the next to repeat the brutal process. After she cleared the room, two crossbowmen came out of the next room. she immolated both them in a column of fire. she sent the minions into a secluded area set off from the main room and let them pillage it and take the pile of gold lying in the middle. Once the minions were done pillaging, she marched off into the next room, on one side, there were two pits, one red, one blue. on the right, four mounds which spewed forth the four colors she had seen at the entrance to the tomb.

She swapped out all her reds for greens. She moved deeper in and found a gold clad dwarf identical to the one on the statues. The voice spoke again;
"That must be Goldo!"
He turned and fled deeper in. She moved to pursue. suddenly a massive machine broke down the doors. Again the voice said:
"And that must be Rollie!"
The top of the door frame fell down behind it. The army swept leaped on it's back. It used it's flame thrower. Only one or two unfortunate greens were in the way, thankfully. But the greens on the metal behemoth's back all suddenly detached. It then charged forward into the downed doors. It turned around and charged. The armor and the minions took shelter behind a pillar. The machine crashed into it and stunned itself as a bomb dropped from the ceiling. Rarity, rather than use this, deployed the minions behind the stunned steamroller.

They loosed their attack and put the rabid machine down. It started steaming and the exhaust pipes spewed fire instead of smoke. Again the greens detached and the thing charged after the downed door frame. This time, however, It exploded, relieving it to be Goldo within the contraption. He tried to get up. Rarity approached her fallen foe as the minions cried out for his blood. She killed him as he raised his ax to defend himself. The sword she carried swung itself practically, and Goldo exploded into some kind of black substance. The voice spoke as Rarity swept the greens over the fallen kings death bed: "Look at all that Evil Energy, sire!" Then everything faded to black...

Evil had found the way... Because evil always finds a way...