Pain, that was all that Rainbow was able to feel at the moment, the image of the white striped mare as she kicked her in the back frozen in her mind. She wasn’t sure what happened next, having fallen to unconsciousness after hitting the ground.
But she was starting to wake up, the pain in her wings giving her jolts that told her something was wrong with them. She then felt warmth around her, like a blanket wrapping around her.
Straining herself, Rainbow slowly opened her eyes, wanting to see what had happened in the time she was out. Her eyes shot open when she saw Sparklez standing in front of her and her friends, he seemed to be blocking a stream of green flames.
The flames caught her attention, knowing only of one little dragon that was capable of that. She looked around a bit to search for the baby dragon, which earned her a sharp pain going from her back as she twisted.
“Rainbow, don’t move you’re hurt.” Fluttershy spoke as she stood next to the prismatic mare. “Paw seemed to have broken your wings with that kick of hers, I’m sorry.” Fluttershy said as she tried to attend to the broken appendages without any equipment.
Rainbow tried to stand up quickly to help Sparklez, but the sudden movement sent another wave of pain to her brain. “Arrgh, buck me, that hurts!” Rainbow said through gritted teeth as she still tried to stand up, only for a orange hoof to hold her down.
“Hold it partner, as much as y'all want to help, you’re in no shape to do anythin’” Applejack said as she looked around again, the terrified faces of the ponies still present, as the owners just stood solid as statutes, too scared to do anything at the moment.
“Applejack, we can’t just stand here doing nothing and hope for Sparklez to win. He barely beat me when I was being affected!” Rainbow said as she tried to stand up again, only for the pain to make her fall back down.
“Please darling, even if you were well enough to fight, I doubt you and Sparklez can beat Spike.” Rarity said as she looked at the fight again, where Sparklez and Spike stood at a stare down for the moment. “Spike was never this strong, and I doubt the same for a teenage dragon.” Rarity said as she feared for the safety of her friends.
Pinkie looked at the scene with sadness and worry in her eyes, but was distracted for the moment when she saw the shapes of the princess and Discord start stirring, coming back into consciousness. “Hey, they’re waking up!” Pinkie exclaimed as she hurriedly ran to the laying individuals.
Applejack and Rarity ran to them as well as some ponies in the public, wanting to help the co-ruler and the Draconequus. “Princess, Discord, are ya alright?” Applejack asked as she used her body to help the monarch.
Luna gave a small groan, her head throbbing with pain from the previous conflict. “Urrg, our head feels as if an angry Ursa Major just pounded on it.” Luna said as she rubbed a hoof to her head, but was brought out of it for a second when she heard the sound of metal striking a hard surface.
Luna turned her head to see a tall version of Spike as he delivered an enveloped fiery fist against the blade of the SandSlash, Sparklez was being pushed back a bit from the force before moving to the side and avoiding the next punch from the drake, before he delivered a punch of his own with the hand holding the blade.
Luna was surprised to say the least, not expecting to behold such a sight after her confrontation with the white humanized mare. “What is this?” Luna asked, hoping to get an answer that made sense from what she could see.
“Paw is what happened, the same thing that happened to Rainbow Dash.” Applejack said as she watched the match between the two, hoping that neither of them would hurt the other too bad.
Pinkie and Rarity helped Discord to his feet, who looked towards the conflict as well with a confused face. “Just how does that dragon squirt know how to fight in his new body? It certainly is a drastic change from being a baby dragon.” Discord remarked with a curious look.
Luna was about to answer when she saw Sparklez get punched in the chest by Spike, sending him flying towards the crowd of ponies; they nearly had no time to move out of the way as the man flew past them before impacting against the wall of a building.
Spike then raised his fire coated hand/claws as the fire moved and started floating in the air, forming a green fireball similar to the one that Paw had created. The drake didn’t waste any time as he quickly threw it towards Sparklez.
Sparklez saw the ball coming towards him. He quickly raised his sword and swung it to divert the projectile away from him and the ponies, but was caught by surprise when Spike came right behind the fireball, his hands enveloped in the green fire, then punched Sparklez through the building.
Luna was shocked at the display of power, but had to hide it as she knew that the citizens of the town would get scared further by her reaction to the situation. “It is too dangerous to remain here, we have got to evacuate the area as soon as possible.” She stated as she moved to guide some of the citizens away from the area, a task which proved difficult since they were frozen in place by fear.
Fluttershy slowly stood up as she tried to give some leverage to her injured friend. “I think we better leave too Rainbow, sorry” Fluttershy said meekly as the prismatic mare tried to stand up yet again.
Rainbow would have normally argued with her about not leaving her friends behind, but the present pain she had was telling her otherwise. “Isn’t there anything we can do? Buck, this stinks.” Rainbow said as she tried not to move her back too much to avoid her broken wing from moving as well.
“Sorry partner, but ain’t nopony that can help Sparklez at the moment. Best we can do is get all these here ponies out of here.” Applejack said as she tried to push some of the bystanders so they would leave the area, with little success.
While everyone else was busy trying to get the residents of the town to leave, they didn’t notice as a certain lavender alicorn was on her haunches, watching the fight with tears in her eyes. “How... how can this be happening?” Twilight asked as Sparklez kicked the dragon away again to get some breathing room.
Her attention was shortly cut when she felt a small nudge on her side, looking for who it was, she saw Kerry looking at her with a sad expression. She didn’t have to ask anything, the look in her eyes was enough to tell her that they were thinking the same thing.
With all their hope, they wished for both their friends to come out of this alive.
“Come on, this is what killed so many monsters from the master before?” Spike asked as he used the back of his fist to block a swing from the man. “You have barely even made a scratch on me, and I’m new to all of this.” Spike boasted as he grabbed the arm of the man before swinging him around and tossed him to the ground a few feet away.
Sparklez slowly stood up, he held his arm in pain. That last attack had done a number on him, if it wasn’t for the minecraft powers he was sure he would’ve been dead a long time ago. “Spike snap out of it! This isn’t like you and you know it.” Sparklez said, hoping to bring the dragon back to his senses, just like Rainbow did.
“Ha! Still thinking that something is controlling me? Well you’re wrong, I’m merely fighting to get rid of you and Rainbow,” He paused as he gave a malicious grin. “but I’m confident that she won’t be a problem after I’m done with you!” Spike said as he launched himself towards the man, spinning around to deliver a kick.
Sparklez saw this coming and used his free hand to catch it, a bit clumsily but still managed to hold it. Before he brought his blade and hit Spike with the flat end, not wanting to kill him, but rather weaken him.
Spike stumbled back as Sparklez released him, but stood straight again as he faced the human again. “You should really just give up, you are only prolonging the inevitable, maybe if you do, I could give you a quick death, maybe.” Spike said as he lit his right fist with fire again, before punching the ground and making trails of green fire run across the ground which soon made a circle around Sparklez.
“My master blessed me with some powers of his own, seems like he wanted me to finish this quickly.” Spike said as he advanced, coming through the flames like they were nothing.
Sparklez was shielding himself from the heat of the flames, the intense heat making it hard to breath and to look at the drake. “Then I’m gonna get rid of that blessing that you got,” Sparklez said as he tighten his grip on the Sandslash. “and free you in the process.” He continued as he cut away some of the flames behind him, slipping out of the circle just in time as new flames replaced the area that he had cut through.
Spike saw the man slip away, and wore a frown as he made the fires around him die down. “You know, I don’t think I like playing with my enemy, think that is more Paw’s thing.” Spike said as he quickly disappeared from sight, before reappearing in front of Sparklez with a flame-cloaked fist. “‘Cause I rather get the job done.” He said as he brought his fist across Sparklez’s stomach, sending him flying through the air as he released his hold on the Sandslash.
Spike caught the blade in mid air by the handle, just as Sparklez smashed against a dunking stand, making the water spill out everywhere. “And to think Discord’s sister said you were our only chance to surviving through this.” Spike said as he slowly walked towards the man. “Obviously, she was wrong.” He said as he now stood in front of the dazed and beaten man.
Sparklez tried to stand up, but his body was sore beyond believe as he had taken a beating against Spike. “Spike, buddy, I know you’re in there. Please wake up and stop this-” He was stopped he received a kick on the gut, making him gasp for air.
“We are not buddies, not anymore at least.” Spike said as he started raising his arm with the Sandslash in his claws. “But I do wish you could have joined us, then it wouldn’t have to end like this.” He said, he was ready to strike the man, until-
“What the-?” Spaike felt a pressure around his ankle, but didn’t have time to check what it was before he was suddenly flung about like a ragdoll on the ground before being thrown into a fruit stand. “Who did that?!” Spike said as he brushed some fruit juice from him, before spotting his aggressor.
“Not hurting master.” The head of Knievel said, he was supported by only his damaged arms and a leg, but still he gave the drake a menacing stare as if he was a bigger threat.
“K-knievel?” Sparklez asked with a bit of strain in his voice as he tried to stand up, only to fail, he lay down again on the rubble that once was a dunking stand.
“You? Guess Paw didn’t do her job properly, goes to show you have to make sure the job is done properly.” Spike said as he used a free hand to create a fireball. “But that can be fixed.” He said s he threw the ball of fire towards Knievel, who jumped to the side and caught the railing of a house roof for support.
Knievel jumped away from the building before landing on the ground, using his leg for support before sprinting towards the dragon with his arms. Spike seeing the incomplete golem charging at him, started creating more of the fireballs to use, determined to end the golem’s life once and for all.
Knievel avoided each attempt of the drake trying to kill him, jumping to the sides using his leg without slowing down. Spike was getting annoyed by this, because his attacks kept missing. “Hold still you infuriating pile of rocks!” Spike said as he focused his fire around the Sandslash, before swinging it horizontally creating a wave of fire that would hit the golem.
Knievel leaned forward and rolled under the blade’s attack, surprising the drake as he saw the golem to be right underneath him, just before Knievel launched himself off the ground and brought both fists to Spike’s jaw. (Ding-Ding! Boxing joke!)
Spike tumbled to the ground as he rubbed his jaw in pain, but was interrupted as Knievel delivered a double punch to the gut, he then used his weight to deliver a harder punch.
“Take that you purple snake.” Knievel said as he was bringing his fists down for a slam. Only for them to be caught by Spike. “Umm, deja vu.” He said before Spike flung him to the side, making him tumble in the ground.
Spike rose from the ground as he glared at the iron golem. “You are messing with the wrong dragon pal.” Spike said as he launched himself towards Knievel, before he whipped around and delivered a hard kick, making the iron golem tumble even more towards where some ponies still remained, as well as most of the original group.
“You are nothing you hear me! You should have just died when Paw destroyed your body, so die already!” Spike shouted as he sprinted towards the iron golem, and just when he was about to finish him, a certain alicorn stepped in his way.
“Spike, stop this maddness! You are better than this and you know it, please just stop.” Twilight pleaded as she looked at her assistant in the eye, while Kerry went to check on the injured golem.
Sparklez was a bit scared at that moment, but he didn’t let that stop him as he just glared at the drake with hatred he still had from the beginning of the fight, and now he was determined to not let a friend get taken away again.
Spike scoffed at the lavender alicorn as he looked at her back. “If you value your life, you would be wise to stand aside Twilight. I have no reason to kill you yet.” Spike said as he summoned fire into his hand it wrapped around the blade. “But I won’t hesitate to do so.”
Sparklez looked at Twilight she gave a determined look, even through her tears she looked at Spike. Sparklez knew that she wouldn’t move and it only fueled him to stop the dragon before he did something he would regret.
Spike looked at Twilight with a straight face as he slowly raised the Sandslash. “Very well then. Really wish it didn’t have to end this way.” Spike said, ready to strike.
Rainbow saw this, wanting to spring into action and get the dragon away from Twilight, but her injury was making the task too difficult. Twilight looked at her assistant with horror as he went to end her life, not wanting to see it coming she closed her eyes and waited for her end.
She waited a second, then three, then six, but she didn’t feel anything. Was it painless? Was she already dead and that’s why she didn’t feel anything? “You?” Twilight heard the voice of Spike as he sounded a bit surprised.
Opening her eyes, she looked at the scene in front of her just to gasp in surprise. The blade engulfed in fire was just mere inches from touching her horn, the only thing stopping its advance was the hand of Sparklez as it held the sharp edge, some blood coming from his hand, his face darkened as a shadow covered his features.
“And here I thought I had left you too broken up to move for a while, no matter, I’ll end you either way.” Spike said as he raised his free hand, enveloping it in his emerald fire before delivering a hard punch across the man’s face.
Only for Sparklez to simply take the full force of the punch, not even registering the pain. “...You...” Sparklez said in a low dark voice as a deep dark mist seemed to come out from around him. “...will…” He clenched his fist as some of the mist started to cover it. “...not harm…” He bore his teeth as he turned his head towards the drake, surprising the onlookers and Spike in the process.
“MY FRIENDS!” He shouted in a dark voice as he glared at the dragon with his red glowing eyes, before bringing his fist back, then delivered a powerful right hook to Spike’s face. The attack was beyond human strength, because the drake was sent flying faster than a wonderbolt in a drag race.
Spike’s body smashed through multiple buildings as he left a trail of destruction behind, not stopping until he reached the outskirts of the town. Everyone present looked at the man with a mix of shock, awe and fear; at the display of power from the man.
Sparklez looked at the direction that Spike had been sent flying to, before he got into a sprinting position as the dark mist that now emanated from him surrounded his legs. “S-sparklez?” Twilight stuttered as she watched, her friend looked like some kind of monster.
She didn’t get time to question him further as he suddenly launched himself towards the direction that the drake had gone, the sheer intensity of the launch was enough to make a gust of wind to blow through the manes of the ponies present.
“Sparklez, wait!” Twilight shouted as she feared what the man would do, seeing that those eyes were filled with pure hatred and power.
“Twilight Sparkle, come back!” Luna shouted as she tried to stop the young alicorn from endangering herself, as well as seeing Kerry the cat leaping about after her. Luna grunted a bit as she took flight to follow for her sister’s ex-mentor, and hopefully stop the human from causing any harm.
The others looked at the scene still dumbfounded, not really registering what had happened just a moment ago. The ghast looked towards the direction that the dragon had gone, sensing him to still be alive, he went to fly towards it in his usual slow flying pace.
Spike soared through the air, smashing through buildings as if they were made of biscuits, before he came to the outskirts of the town where he slid across the ground, creating a deep trench that went for around a hundred metres.
Once the dragon stopped fully, he slowly got out of the fresh made trench, an arm falling limply as his jaw seemed to be in an awkward position.
Spike grabbed his arm as he felt the bones out of place, giving them a push until they had realigned themselves into their proper position. He then grabbed his jaw and pushed it upwards, making a loud cracking sound as well as a loud groan in pain.
“What was that? He wasn’t that strong before.” Spike wondered out loud as he watched towards the village as the ghast could be seen still hovering on top of it. “Whatever happened, I better be on my guard now.” He said as he inspected the Sandslash, scoffing at it a bit to see it nearly broken, Sparklez had used it too much the last few days.
His attention was cut short as he heard a high pitched whistled, like if an object was coming at a high speed. Looking towards the town again, he managed to see a black speck coming through the holes of the houses that he had passed through, and it was coming at him really fast!
Jumping to the side a the last second, Spike heard as something impact with the ground with immense force, making a cloud of dirt rise up. Looking through the screen of dirt, saw a pair of red eyes staring at him, he heard a dark growl as well.
As the dust settled, Spike saw the shape of the man come into view, still wearing his costume apart from the mask. The dark mist still surrounded him, making his appearance even more sinister than intended.
Spike looked at the man with an even stare, determined not to show him any weakness. “So you got lucky and manage to hurt me a bit. Lucky hit, and it will be the last one out will get all night.” Spike said as he set both his hands on fire, as well as the Sandslash.
Sparklez didn’t respond at all, keeping quiet as he watched the dragon with malice in his eyes. The mist around him focused around his hands as he tightened them into fists, getting into a fighting position.
Spike was the first to make the move. He charged ahead, bringing his blade back for a strike. Sparklez responded by reading himself to deliver another punch across the drake’s face. Spike ducked down at the last second, having made his attack a bluff as he got under the man and delivered a hard uppercut with his flaming hand.
Sparklez stumbled a bit when he received the hit, but he didn’t have time to recover, he then felt his feet being lifted off the ground. Spike had sweeped a leg under Sparklez before he went and used the blade to send the man flying higher into the air.
Seeing his target in the air, Spike used his dragon breath to power up a fireball in both hands, making it as large as himself. He threw the ball of fire at the man who wasn’t able to recover in time as the fireball hit him square on, making a large explosion.
Sparklez fell out of the explosion, with trails of black smoke following behind him. Spike sprinted towards where the man would land; he twisted around twice as he build momentum before delivering a hard kick to the side of Sparklez, sending him flying across and hitting a rock that was nearby.
“I got you now.” Spike said as he lunged himself towards Sparklez, who remained still with his head down as Spike went to pierce his chest with the Sandslash. But Spike’s attack was ended as the blade was intercepted by Sparklez open hand, the black mist surrounding it as it made the blade shatter in two.
Spike looked at what happened in shock, as he held the broken Sandslash in his hand, before it bursted into multiple shards of yellow metal. “H-how?” Spike asked to himself dumbfounded, before looking at Sparklez who raised his head slowly to look at Spike in the eyes with anger.
Before anything could be said, Spike saw Sparklez’s leg get enveloped in the mist and used it to kick Spike off him and send him flying away. Spike tried to regain his bearings but he felt as someone delivered a punch from behind him, making him fly to another direction.
Sparklez could barely be seen as he dashed around using his new power to move about quickly and deliver devastating blows to the drake. He appeared in front of Spike before kicking him upwards and sending him straight up, before following him as well.
Spike saw as the man came rocketing towards him, and braced himself for whatever was coming. Once Sparklez was close enough, he started delivering a barrage of blows at the defending drake, hitting him in every part of his body, Spike tried to block most of the attacks.
After one last punch, Sparklez spun in mid air and delivered an axe kick on top of Spike’s head, making the dragon come crashing down towards earth once again, making a screen of dirt to rise up.
Sparklez used the dark mist around him to propel himself down, intending to end this fight in one blow. Coming into the cloud of dust, he didn’t see as a fire fist punched him across the face, sending him cruising out of the cloud and bouncing on the ground to a stop.
Sparklez looked towards the cloud of dust as it started to settle, Spike stood on the middle of a small crater as he clutched his side, with a pained glare towards the dark man.
Damn it, he is even more powerful than I thought. Spike thought to himself as a another wave of pain erupted from his injured side, making him grip it tighter as to subside the pain. Crap, I won’t be able to take another assault from this monster, I only got one chance.
Spike quickly formed a fireball in his hand and started breathing fire into it, but did not stop once it had increased to three times its original size. He kept pouring his breath into the mass of fire as he now had to raise his hand to allow the fireball enough room to grow.
Sparklez saw this, feeling that his target was making a last desperate attempt at ending him decided to ready himself for a final showdown, determined to show the lizard who was the better fighter.
Sparklez felt as the mist around him shifted, growing in size around him as some sort of armour. The mass of gas growing in size behind him as it mirrored the fireball of Spike, which was by now larger than a house, and still growing.
Soon, both fighters were ready, as they were prepared with their tools of destruction intend to end the other in one blow. “So this is it huh?” Spike started as he held the massive ball of fire over his head, as large as the ghast that had been terrorising the town. “A bringer of salvation versus a monster of destruction. Hmm, sounds like some lame story doesn’t it?” Spike asked as he gave a small smirk towards the man.
Sparklez didn’t say anything, his face nearly obscured by the darkness that now surrounded most of his body, the mass of dark mist behind him appearing as if a monster of darkness stood by Sparklez, like a companion’s dog.
“No point in stalling then.” Spike said as he dashed towards the man, Sparklez mimicking the action as they both neared each other. “The sun or the darkness. There can only be one winner!” Spike yelled as he came ever to closer to his target. Sparklez giving a cry of rage as the darkness came over him, and towards his target.
“Please, don’t let it be too late” Twilight prayed as she now flew through the streets of the town, following the trail of destruction that was left from Spike after being sent flying by Sparklez.
“Twilight, wait for me!” Kerry shouted as she tried to keep with the lavender alicorn, having to find new routes as some of them were blocked by still lingering fires and debris. “Oh how I wish I could fly right now.” Kerry said under her breath as she leapt a large gap between two buildings, nearly missing her jump as she held herself from the edge of the roof.
Twilight wasn’t paying attention, she was more worried about the safety of her two friends, they must be trying to kill each other. But she stopped in her tracks as a bright flash occurred in front of her, surprising her as the lunar Princess stood right in front of her.
“Twilight Sparkle, do not attempt to go assist the human in any way. It is clear that he is a greater threat than we let on.” Luna commanded as she looked at Twilight in the eyes with a straight face.
Kerry soon caught up with both of them, as she gasped a bit to catch her breath. “That’s...not Sparklez...at least not right now” Kerry said between gasps, as she looked at Luna.
“Yet we cannot risk the chance of a bigger threat to arise if unsupervised, and in the light of the current brabble, that its something I must ensure not happen.” Luna said as she gave a low glare at the feline, having her doubts about trusting the human, and its allies after all.
“Princess, even if that were the case, I need to stop them. Spike isn’t himself at the moment, just like Rainbow was. And Sparklez is intent to kill him.” Twilight begged as she looked at the princess with teary eyes. “Please, all we need to do is-”
She was interrupted as a loud explosion sounded off from the distance, followed by a strong gust of warm air. Looking at the direction of the sound, Twilight held a hoof over her mouth as she looked at a large ball of green fire and darkness lighting up the sky.
Twilight felt a new weight on her back as she looked to see Kerry resting on top of her, a worried look on her face. “Go!” Kerry shouted, as they both took the moment of Luna being distracted by the sudden explosion.
Please, let us get there in time. Twilight thought as she flew as fast as she could. Luna soon recovered, she now flew after the lavender alicorn and cat. Not far behind, came a slow moving mass of death that wailed every once in a while, the ghast went towards where he still felt the presence of the dragon. For now.
Spike was sent out from within the explosion, the force of the blast too strong for him to handle as he was tossed around on the ground. Slowly lifting his body from the ground, he looked towards the raging fire that now occupied the area where he once stood.
“Heh, that’ll show him.” Spike said as he raised himself off the ground, turning around to face the town that now was less chaotic as the fires started to subside, as well as the ghast stopped from attacking everything.
“Now, I better kill that Rainbow and then leave this place, better get prepared before-” He stopped when he heard a low growl coming from behind him. If he still had pupils he would have them of the size of pinpricks.
Spike slowly turned around to see a dark mist seep out of the fire, making it die down like it was being suffocated of its precious air. Out of the darkness, Sparklez could be seen walking out from within the mass of black, sporting a few scorches and a few tears on his costume and clothes.
Spike started backing away from the dark creature with fear, beads of sweat pouring out like crazy. “I-it’s not possible, that fireball would have been enough to kill even the ancient entity. W-what are yAHRRHG!” He was cut short as a hand clapped around his throat, cutting the airway for him to breath.
Sparklez stared at the drake with his glowing red eyes, the mist around him shifting about as it surrounded the drake in his grasp. Spike was struggling against the man’s hold, trying desperately to get some air.
The mist wrapped around the limbs of the drake, making his movements restricted, he was held still, only able to stare at his executioner with a strained glare. “...this is why, we need to stop you all...we are all monsters that destroy everything...and you make a fine example.” Spike said with the little strength he possessed, feeling as unconsciousness slowly took hold of him.
Sparklez gave a low growl, as some of the mist shifted about until they seemed semi solid, before rocketing forward and implanting themselves into the drake’s chest. Spike opened his eyes in shock and pain, as he felt as if his chest was being burned by Celestia’s sun, feeling the pain spread out towards the rest of his body before going towards his head.
“YYYAAAAAAARRRRGH!” Spike let out a blood curdling cry, as he felt the greatest pain he had ever felt, as well as feeling something slowly being destroyed in his mind as the pain was beginning to be too much for him.
He felt...guilty, he felt guilty at his actions, at what he said, at what he nearly did to Twilight. He...he wasn’t sure what was going on. Tears streamed out from his eyes as the usual emerald eyes slowly reappeared on his white orbs. All before he passed out from the emotional and physical assault.
The mist tendrils retracted back out from the dragon’s chest, leaving no mark as if they had passed through like ghosts, one of them sporting a bubbling black goop that soon disintegrated into a grey mist.
Sparklez looked at the slumping form of Spike as he brought him towards his face, puffing at him in disgust. He readied a fist, the mist surrounding it as he prepared for one last devastating blow. He brought his hand forward, determined to end this pests life.
“STOP!”
Sparklez stopped a mere inch from hitting the drake’s head, possibly even snapping it from his neck. Sparklez turned his head to watch a tear filled Twilight looked at him with sad pleading eyes. Kerry on top of her as she watched with a scarred and worry look.
He shifted his gaze as he noticed a dark blue alicorn glaring at him, her horn charged up to use a spell if she needed to. Sparklez gave a glare at both of them, having stopped him from delivering justice.
“Sparklez, you won, you don’t have to fight him anymore.” Kerry said as she tried to ease the man’s rage.
“Do not reason with it, feline, he is too dangerous to be left going around. He is to be put into custody or dealt with.” Luna said as she flared her wings in an intimidating pose. “And I’ll make sure of that.”
Sparklez glared at the lunar princess, he raised his free hand, as mist started to accumulate on top of it as it resembled a dark fireball. Luna took a step forward, showing that she wasn’t going to be scared so easily. Sparklez raised his hand, ready to hurdle to the dark princess.
“Aren’t we your friends?” Twilight said suddenly, making Sparklez flinch in response as he gave a confused look towards the mare, Luna stopping her assault as to see what was the young alicorn planning. “Would you really hurt your friends Sparklez?”
“Don’t we mean anything to you?” It was Kerry’s turn to speak as she gave the man a concern look. “Doesn’t Spike mean anything?” Kerry said as she looked at the unconscious drake.
Sparklez looked a bit shocked at that, as he turned to look at the drake, still in his hold. Sparklez didn’t know what was going on anymore, he started shaking a bit as he tried to decide what was he trying to do from the start, the ball of darkness dissipating out of existence at the same time as he let go of the drake.
Sparklez held his head with his hand, as a large headache was starting to come, the mist around him convulsing like a fish out of the water as it received the confliction that the man was experiencing.
All of a sudden, Sparklez eyes snapped open as he let out a loud cry, not able to cope with the mental conflict in his head, and at the same time the mist around him shot out into the sky, reaching the heavens above before exploding into all directions.
Sparklez looked up, his eyes losing the red glow that they had as his dark azure eyes returned, before falling to his knees and finally laying on the floor next to Spike.
“Sparklez!” Kerry shouted as she hopped off the lavender alicorn, going towards her owner and friend, while Twilight went to the side of Spike, inspecting for any injuries that he may had suffered.
“Tis not the time to worry about them, we must leave the area before-” The sound of hissing deep groans filled her ears as she turned towards the sound, noticing the shapes of small arachnid beings and tall, bulky creatures with one eye.
Twilight turned her head around to watch as the spider beings came ever so closer, but the shade was not the normal black, but rather green as the eyes shone with a blue glow. Jungle spiders!? Her gaze changed as she spotted the large beast that followed behind, silently gulping as she recognised it. C-cyclops.
Luna charged up her horn as she fired bolts of arcane magic at the forms of the spiders, but all it did was make them reel back a bit before continuing on their charge. “It can’t be.” Luna said as she saw her magic bouncing off the creatures harmlessly.
Twilight was about to use a teleportation spell to take them all out of there, but had the grim reminder that magic didn’t work on those like Sparklez, and would extend Spike as well. “What do we do?” She asked as she felt something coming from behind her. Twisting around, she saw as a jungle spider that had managed to sneak past around was ready to pounce on the mare, but right before it could lunge at them.
“Yippee ki yay motherfucker!” Came the voice of someone with a small southern accent. As the spider turned to look at what it was that made the sound, it felt as something sharp pass across its face, making a small scar on it face as it sealed back up as mist seeped out from it.
Twilight tried to follow a small speck that she saw fly by the spider, but soon disappeared in the night sky. “Well I'll be damned.” The voice spoke again as it now came from on top of Twilight, looking up she spotted a small furry creature that hovered above her head with its leathery wings.
“Didn’t think I would find the big guy over here.” The bat spoke as it gave a grin before spotting the surprised feline next to the man. “And howdy tiger, nice wings.” The bat spoke as he smiled at Kerry.
“Gary?!” Kerry asked as she didn’t quite expect to find the pet bat on the middle of the night after some really big fight.
“In the flesh partner, now if you excuse me, I have some monsters to WHOA!” Gary exclaimed as he ducked away from a lunging spider. “Gonna have to earn that meal buggy.” Gary taunted as he flew away from the area, drawing the jungle spider away.
Meanwhile, Luna was desperately trying to avoid every attack that the monsters tried to do. Teleporting out of the way of a cyclops, as the beast smashed a fist in the earth, making a small hole in the ground.
“This is insane. How can a single pony have hopes to defeat things like you?!” Luna said, more out of fear as she wasn’t sure what to do. She just couldn’t leave the others behind, and like Twilight had thought, she knew that a teleportation spell would not suffice.
She was broken of her concentration as she felt fangs sink into her backside, bucking the one responsible for the assault, she started feeling weaker, her breathing becoming low ragged, as an intense pain traveled across from where she was bitten.
Seeing the alicorn weakened, the creatures started advancing on her, determined to end the life of another destructive being. However, this was halted by a small speck passing and slashing across all of them.
“Nope.” Gary said as he scratched the back side of a spider. “Na-ah” Past the legs of a cyclops. “Negatory.” Across four legs of four spiders. “Denied” Slashing the eye of a cyclops as it wailed a bit, holding the injured eye...well, his only eye!
The mobs all looked towards their aggressor as he fluttered down to the ground a few feets away from them. “What? Never had a bat humiliating you before?” Gary asked as he gave them a toothy grin, motioning them to come towards him.
The group of mobs glared at the bat as they charged forward, ready to teach this pest a lesson on respect. “And goodbye” Gary said as he waved at the mobs, all looking at him a bit confused.
“Tenpesuto no arashi!” Came a yell, then the sound of blades cutting through flesh as the mobs came to a solid stop, before all giving a cry of pain and dissipating into the usual mist.
Luna looked at the scene, not certain what had happened or how that bat just managed to kill all of those creatures in one blow. “Princess!” The voice of Twilight brought the lunar princess attention away from the bat and its action.
“Princess, are you alright?” Twilight asked as she tried to help the large alicorn to her hooves, the monarch standing in shaking hooves as the poison had not subsided fully.
“We’ll be fine, but it is still dangerous to roam here, we need to-” Yet again, she was interrupted by a high wail that came from the direction of the town. (Here is Ghastly! *Cricket sound*...Come on! It was good! *Gets a tomato to the face* Grr, everyone's a critic.)
The ghast wailed again as he no longer felt the presence of the normal dragon, but now of a traitorous one. Taking a big inhale, he fired a fireball that went a bit overhead and hit behind the ponies.
“Oh sweet mother Mary!” Gary shouted as he looked at the flying mass of death before turning towards a different direction. “Knucklehead! Do something!” Gary shouted as he saw another fireball coming toward them.
But before it could reach them, the sound of slicing could be heard in the air, before the fireball exploded in mid air. The ghast looked shocked at this, and was preparing for another attack. But suddenly froze for no apparent reason, unable to move as if he was paralyzed in place by something.
“Ittoryu” Came the same voice as before, sounding really calm, yet menacing. The ghast tried to look at its source, but all it saw was a large silhouette came rocketing towards him, and then. Pain.
“Daishinkan!” The voice spoke, coming from right in front of the ghast as the large beast seemed to split in half, before letting a blood curl wail and die like the other mobs.
“W-what was that?” Twilight asked as she saw the shape of their saviour fall down to the ground, landing on two legs as it help two swords in its...hooves? Upon closer inspection, one could note the black mane and tail, as well as a brown coat.
A red glow emanated from in front of the duel wielding pony, to reveal a third sword gripped by the mouth of the individual as it floated towards a sheath strapped to the back of the pony, the other two swords being sheathed as well.
The pony came back down to all four as it turned around to reveal it as a brown unicorn with crimson eyes, and a small patch of lighter brown by his mouth.
“For the last time, you fur ball. My name is Cinnamon for Fausts sake.” The brown unicorn spoke as he trotted towards the bat, and in turn the rest of the ponies. “Now, can somepony explain to me why the hay are monsters invading Ponyville. Again!”