//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: Dimensional Battle Royale // by RazortheAwesome //------------------------------// *Razor* Race To The Tower Mute City by Powerglove It was the same as ever in the universe of the dimensional battle royale. The sky still shone it’s purple hue, the stars hadn’t moved even an inch, the sun and moon still neglected to show themselves, and down one of the main streets of this, ruined city of Canterlot, Seth Disarmonia, Mehrunes Dagon Razor, and Princess Filia Solis all raced towards the High Tower with Filia leading the charge, Seth to her right, and Razor at her left. Despite the danger, the threat of imminent and mutually assured destruction, and Seth’s own fears that the Stallion in the High Tower would zap them all into dust at any instant he wished, they still ran. While Seth did occasionally glance up at the sky, nothing was about to stop him from running. Razor kept his own eyes peeled for anything or anypony that could jump out at them, and Filia Solis kept her focus forward. The look of determination on her face was one that couldn’t be shaken much less broken, not for anything. It reminded Razor a bit of himself. Then again, Seth did say that she was Princess Celestia’s daughter so that would have made them- The sound of a sudden, very loud, very deep sounding roar broke Razor’s train of thought as the three of them all looked up towards the sky, but saw nothing. A cold chill ran down Seth’s spine as that noise hit his ears. Razor could see it. He didn’t stop running, but he saw Seth freeze up a little, as if in terror. Razor could understand why. He knew that sound. Even though he had yet to actually hear that sound himself in his life, he knew it. It was the unmistakable roar of a dragon. Any thoughts that Razor had about the dragon that they all knew was there immediately left his head when he looked forward again and saw a red pegasus stallion with a purple mane coming right at him. Razor didn’t know where in tartarus he came from, but he was flying at them fast, like Wonderbolt fast. Quickly, before the red pegasus could crash right into Seth, Razor teleported in front of him and kicked the red pegasus in the face with a spinning kick. At the speed the pegasus was flying at, the impact from Razor’s kick knocked him right off course and he flew straight into one of the many buildings that littered the side of the road. The moment Razor’s hooves touched the ground again, Seth leapt right over him and continued running straight. After less than a second, Seth saw what looked like a ponyhole cover flying right at Filia like some kind of frisbee. Seth quickly spawned his rapier and cut right through the ponyhole cover like tissue paper before it could hit her, only to see a dagger flying right at him. Seth’s eyes went wide as he saw it fly towards him. However, before the dagger could even touch him, it was suddenly deflected by a blue magical barrier that went up in front of him. At that, Seth looked over to his left to see Filia. Filia just winked at him as the magical aura surrounding her horn went away. Less than a second after she did though, from out of nowhere, a bunch of chains dropped down from above them and wrapped themselves around Filia’s neck. “Filia!” Seth shouted just as he saw her get pulled up off the road towards the top of one of the nearby buildings. Before he could react though, he heard the sound of someone else teleporting in front of him. He quickly turned back around to see the gargoyle he saw back when this all started right in front of him, his wings open and a broadsword in his right hand. “Sh*t!” Seth screamed as the gargoyle brought down his sword right on him. In response, Seth quickly brought up his rapier and blocked the gargoyle’s blade, but the force of his attack was still enough to stop Seth in his tracks and push him back a few feet. “Damnit,” Seth silently muttered to himself as he did what he could to keep the gargoyle’s blade from getting any closer to him. “Why do I always end up fighting gargoyles?” “What's that supposed to mean?” The gargoyle practically growled at him as he pushed on his blade towards Seth. Even with his magic, Seth could barely hold on as he could see his own reflection in the gargoyle’s blade. Suddenly, from behind him, a fireball flew right over Seth’s head and hit the gargoyle square in the chest. Not one to miss an opportunity like this, Seth then pushed back on the gargoyle’s blade and knocked him away from him just as Razor teleported in right above Seth’s head and kicked the gargoyle right in the chest where his fireball hit and knocked him onto his back. Seth just held his ground and kept his sword up as Razor barely brushed his mane with his kick. He was that close. Before his hooves could even touch the ground, Razor created a magical barrier beneath his hooves, jumped up off of it, raised his right forehoof, covered it with flames and came down right on the gargoyle as he prepared to deliver a flaming punch right to its face. Before Razor could even get close to him though, the gargoyle suddenly snapped his fingers and disappeared in a puff of black smoke. The literal instant that the gargoyle disappeared, a diamond dog that was wearing what could only be described as leather armor and had fourteen inch blades attached to both it’s arms suddenly dug from the ground right where the gargoyle was, leapt up right at Razor, and swung his right blade at him. ‘SH*T!’ Razor mentally screamed at himself as he refocused his magic and spawned his spear. Upon retrospect however, it probably would have been a better idea to just create another magical barrier. Razor managed to block the diamond dog's blade with his spear, but the impact of the blow knocked him back into the air a little bit. Then, in an instant, the diamond dog somehow flipped over in mid air and kicked Razor right in the gut with both his feet. Razor flew back several feet and landed on his back. When he opened his eyes back up, at first he could only see the buildings and the night sky above him, but then, he saw something that nearly made his eyes go so wide that they threatened to burst out of his skull. The diamond dog had suddenly leapt into the air again and, with both blades drawn, he came down right on Razor. Razor held up his spear to defend himself, but before the diamond dog could touch him, Seth suddenly came out of nowhere and blocked the diamond dog’s blade with his rapier. Razor looked past Seth for a moment to see the expression on the diamond dog’s face. In it he could see the obvious signs of anger, but there was something else there, something in his eyes. He couldn’t place it. He didn’t get to see it for very long though as Seth pushed the diamond dog away with a single downward swing of his rapier. The diamond dog jumped backward a bit and landed on his feet. Right as he did, Seth ran at him and thrust his rapier forward. The diamond dog ducked to the side to dodge it, but Seth didn’t even give him a chance to react again and swung his rapier horizontally. The diamond dog leaned back against to dodge Seth’s blade, it’s tip barely touching his neck. Seth then swung upwards, but the diamond dog stepped backwards a bit and spun around Seth’s blade. When he came back around, the diamond dog swung his left blade at Seth. Seth blocked the diamond dog’s blade with his rapier, but the diamond dog didn't stop there as he thrust his right blade directly at Seth’s torso. Seth blocked that too, but then the diamond dog quickly spun around and kicked Seth right in the head. Seth however, didn’t block that with his rapier. Instead, he spawned another sword, this one a katana, and blocked the diamond dog’s kick with that. He then swung upwards with his rapier again, which made the diamond dog back away, and then again with his katana. At that, the diamond dog leapt up into the air, did a backflip and landed a few feet away from Seth. Seth then charged forward at the diamond dog, but as he did, Razor watched as the gargoyle from before suddenly appeared right behind him. Thinking quickly, Razor teleported from where he was to right behind Seth and held up his spear just as the gargoyle was about to bring his sword down on Seth. “Sorry,” Razor said to the gargoyle as they locked blades, the beginnings of a smile starting to appear on his face. “Not this time.” At that, Razor suddenly stepped to the side and forced the gargoyle’s blade to the ground with his spear. He then jumped up in a cartwheel motion and kicked the gargoyle right in it’s face with both his rear hooves. The gargoyle rolled onto the ground for a moment before he rolled back onto his feet and threw a fireball at Razor. Razor quickly responded by creating three fireballs and throwing them right at him. One of his fireball’s hit the gargoyle’s fireball and exploded. Razor's other two fireballs passed right through the explosion and flew right at the gargoyle, but gargoyle swatted them away like flies with his sword. Right as he swatted away the last fireball however, Razor jumped through the fire with his spear covered in flames and swung down on the gargoyle. The gargoyle just held his blade up with both his hands and blocked Razor's spear before it could touch him. The heat from Razor’s spear barely even made him flinch. As Razor and Seth fought the gargoyle and the diamond dog, the two of them suddenly heard a loud “BANG!” noise that seemed to come up from one of the buildings behind them. Quickly, the two of them glanced back to see both Filia and a black unicorn stallion with a white mane wearing black rags around most of his body come crashing out from one of the windows of one of the buildings behind them and fly straight into the building across the street. The unicorn pinned Filia to the building, her weapon, a claymore sword, wrapped in chains by the unicorn’s weapon. The two of them kept their weapons locked for several moments, their gaze never leaving each other’s eyes. Suddenly, Filia made her sword disappear, which distracted the unicorn for only a moment, but long enough for Filia to hit him in the stomach with one of her knees before she pulled back both her rear hooves and bucked him right in the chest off of her. Filia then spread her wings and flew off the building before she spawned a halberd, charged it with wind energy, and then swung downwards right at the other unicorn. At the middle of the arc of her swing, a powerful gust of wind shot from her halberd and hit the unicorn with such force that he fell to the ground a lot faster than he otherwise would have fallen. A large cloud of dust came up the moment he hit the ground. Not done however, Filia flew straight towards the ground with her halberd forward. Right as she hit the ground though, a sickle attached to a long chain cut right through the dust cloud and went right for Filia’s face. Filia quickly blocked the sickle with her halberd, then using her wings, she flipped herself over in mid air and swung her halberd forward again with another powerful gust of wind behind it. Her swing knocked away the dust cloud. With it gone, she saw the unicorn standing several feet away from her down the street, his weapon already in mid swing again. Filia quickly held up her halberd and blocked unicorn’s weapon, which she now saw to be a kusari gama. However, the chain of the unicorn’s weapon wrapped itself around her halberd and, with a quick yank, the unicorn tore Filia’s halberd from her magical grasp. Filia watched her weapon disappear with an expression of shock on her face. As much as she couldn’t believe that this unicorn actually managed to tear her weapon away from her like that, she didn’t give him much of a chance to do anything else as she lowered her horn and shot a barrage of magical blasts at him as she spread her wings again. The unicorn blocked every single one of Filia’s magical blasts with his sickle before he saw her take off and fly straight at him. The instant she was off the ground, he spun the sickle end of his weapon around and swung upwards with it. His weapon tore right through the ground between him and Filia like it was butter and came up right where she was. Filia quickly rolled over in mid air and landed back on the ground, just barely missing the other unicorn's sickle. The unicorn however, didn’t give her a chance to just stand there as he spun his weapon around again and swung the other half of his chain at her, which she ducked under, then again with the sickle, which she jumped backwards to avoid, then again with the blunt end of his chain, which she ducked under again, and then again with the sickle, which she jumped over. The unicorn didn’t stop there however as he just kept attacking her with swing after swing of his kusari gama with no chance for a rest. Not even he seemed to be getting tired from constantly swinging his weapon like that. Filia on the other hoof, did what she could to dodge every single attack he hit her with, but if this kept up, even she knew that she couldn't last forever. Razor jumped away from another swing of the gargoyle’s sword and looked back to see Filia fighting the other unicorn. He watched her duck and weave through every swing of the other unicorn’s chain, and while he was impressed with her ability to do that, he could tell that she couldn’t keep that up forever without getting hit. The sudden downward swing from the gargoyle distracted him for a moment as he held up his spear to block it. He and the gargoyle locked eye contact again for a moment. The look in the gargoyle’s eyes was similar to the diamond dog’s, there was rage, but a hint of something else in there too, though Razor couldn’t quite put his hoof on it. After a moment though, it finally hit him. He knew what it was that he could see in their eyes. It wasn't just anger or rage, but desperation. The sound of stone getting cut behind him brought his mind back to the current predicament he was in. If they were gonna make it to the high tower, then they had to deal with these guys and do it quick. They were only slowing them down. The sound of blades clashing right next to him however, suddenly gave him an idea, and Razor's smile couldn't help but get a bit wider as it ran through his head, which confused the hell out of the gargoyle. Without warning, Razor lit his spear aflame, but he didn’t throw it at the gargoyle or direct it anywhere. He simply kept increasing the ferocity of the flames. Within moments it became so hot that gargoyle had to take a hand off of his sword and cover his face, which made it easier for Razor to push right through his sword and get in closer. The gargoyle however, saw this coming and flew backwards before Razor could cut him with his spear. He flew back roughly six feet before he stopped himself and flew forward right at Razor with his sword raised. Razor however, still wore the smirk on his face. It didn’t matter what the gargoyle did now, he just needed him away from him. “Filia, duck!” Razor shouted before a column of fire suddenly came up around him, which made the gargoyle stop dead in his tracks before he even got close. When the column cleared, Razor was no longer there. Momentarily distracted, Filia turned back to look where Razor was, but she couldn’t see him. When she turned her attention back to the unicorn however, all she could see was the sickle of his kusari gama coming right at her. It was too close to dodge, so she put up a magical barrier around herself and closed her eyes as she prepared to take the hit. However, it never came. All there was was silence. At least as far as her fight with this one unicorn was concerned. She could still hear the sound of clashing blades behind her. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the chain and the sickle had stopped dead in their tracks. Across from her she saw the expression of the other unicorn. He seemed confused, as if what he was looking at didn’t make any sense, or more accurately was impossible. She then looked right next to her and saw the sickle, which was inches away from her face, wasn’t encased in a yellow aura anymore. The sickle at least, was encased in a green aura. Suddenly Razor’s words rang out in her ears again. Without wasting a second she quickly ducked and got as low as she could as the entire length of the chain holding the other unicorn’s kusari gama together was suddenly overtaken by a green aura and torn from the other unicorn’s grasp. The kusari gama then flew right over Filia's head towards the remains of a column of fire that just went down. When she saw that, she instantly got what was going on. “Seth!” she shouted as she jumped back up and turned herself around. The other unicorn charged up some more magic in his horn in an attempt to pull his kusari gama back, but before he could do anything, Razor suddenly landed on top of him and kicked his face down into the ground. The look on his face was the same gleeful smirk he showed the gargoyle. “Ooooh I'm so sorry,” Razor said to the other unicorn. “Was that yours?” The moment of the column of fire faded out, the gargoyle’s eyes went as wide as Razor’s had earlier as he watched the other unicorn’s kusari gama coming at him. Before he could even react, the kusari gama wrapped itself all around him. The chain that held the sickle to the weight at the end was the maximum possible length for such a weapon, thus the whole thing was able to tie up both the gargoyle's arms and his wings effortlessly as he fell to the ground. Seth and the diamond dog locked both of their blades together as they both stood their ground. Seth looked right into the diamond dog’s eyes and didn’t look away. Likewise, the diamond dog wouldn’t move either. The moment Seth heard Filia’s voice however, his expression changed, which confused the diamond dog. Without warning, Seth stepped forward and headbutted the diamond dog right in the face and disengaged both of his blades, which made the diamond dog stumble backwards a bit. Immediately after he did that, a flash of magic suddenly came from Seth's horn. The diamond dog tried to take a step forward and swing one of his blades at Seth, but before he could, Seth teleported away from him. Instinctively, the diamond dog tried to take a step forward, but when he did, he found himself unable to. He then looked down at his feet to see that both of them had been encased on the ground. When he looked back up, where Seth was, he saw an orange alicorn flying right at him surrounded by a blue magical barrier. “Well that’s not fair at a-” The diamond dog tried to say before Filia rammed right into him with such force that it knocked him right out of the ground his feet were encased on and knocked him back several feet before he could even finish his sentence. The diamond dog hit the ground several feet behind him and rolled over several times before he finally stopped. When he did stop, he didn't get back up. The gargoyle struggled against the chains for a moment before they disappeared in a yellow mist as the other unicorn instinctively disengaged them. Before he could even move his arms however, another chain wrapped in a red aura suddenly came out of nowhere and wrapped itself around him. Seth then reappeared on top of the gargoyle and held his rapier to his throat. “Don’t even think about it,” Seth said to the gargoyle. Several feet behind both Seth and Filia, a bright flash of light suddenly came from the other unicorn’s horn, which caused Razor to cover his eyes. The other unicorn then bucked Razor off of him and stood back up. The moment the flash cleared, he spawned a bo staff and looked around, but Razor was nowhere to be seen. He then looked down, and his pupils went wider than his eyes could have possibly contained them as he saw what was unmistakably a fire seal burned into the ground beneath his hooves. Within an instant, the ground beneath him exploded in a massive ball of fire as he teleported to the top of a nearby building to safety, his bo staff gone. The other unicorn just stared down at the street below him and saw all the destruction that was happening. He watched the explosion for a moment, but then he looked to the right a bit and noticed both the gargoyle and the diamond dog being subdued by Seth and Filia. The moment that sight hit his eyes, his expression turned sour and he turned around to leave. He could tell that now was not the best time to stick around. The moment he completely turned around however, he was met with Razor’s back hoof as Razor kicked him right in the face and knocked him back down into the street. The sound of something falling got both Seth and Filia's attention as they both turned around to see the other unicorn fall from the top of a nearby building. Within seconds, they saw Razor teleport down into the street right across from him, the same sinister, almost gleeful smirk still on his face. "Come on, is that all you got?" Razor said to the other unicorn as he slowly started walking towards him. The other unicorn didn't respond. He took a few moments to regain his composure before he stood back up. The moment he did however, Razor ran up to him and punched him right in the face with his right hoof, then again with his left, and then with his right again. The other unicorn stumbled back a bit before Razor stepped forward and threw another punch. This time however, the other unicorn leaned back to dodge it and threw his own punch, which Razor quickly grabbed with his hoof before kicking him right in the side punching him again with an uppercut to the jaw before letting go of his hoof. Again, the other unicorn fell onto his back. Razor couldn't help but laugh at the other unicorn as he rolled onto his side and practically stumbled back to his hooves. The moment he was on his hooves, he spawned a katana of his own, turned around and swung it at Razor. Razor just leaned back a bit to dodge the blade as the other unicorn stepped forward and swung upwards. Razor leaned to the side to dodge the blade before the other unicorn brought up his blade and swung straight down at him. His blade didn’t even touch Razor however, as he grabbed it with his magic the same way he did the other unicorn's kusari gama and tore it from his grasp before headbutting him right in the face. The other unicorn stumbled back a bit and grabbed his face in pain. Again, Razor couldn't help but laugh to himself for a bit at that and tossed the katana to the side as it evaporated into a yellow mist. After a few good solid seconds, the other unicorn pulled himself together and looked right at Razor with the rage of a beast from tartarus as lunged forward and threw a series of punches at Razor. Razor dodged and blocked every single one of them until he grabbed the other unicorn's right hoof. Again, Razor laughed for a moment before he brought his elbow down on the other unicorn's hoof. The other unicorn screamed in pain as a loud “crack” noise came from his hoof. "Hurts don't it," Razor said to the other unicorn in a voice that didn't really seem like his own. “Razor!” Filia screamed as she took off running towards him. Seth was about to run too, but before he could he looked back at the gargoyle, who was still conscious. The gargoyle looked up at Seth with all the hatred he could muster before Seth hit him in the face with the butt of his rapier and knocked him out before following Filia. The moment he heard his name being called, the gleeful smile on Razor’s face immediately dropped. He looked directly into the other unicorn's eyes for a moment, the expression on his face one of confusion. He then turned his head to see Seth and Filia running towards him. He then turned his attention back to the other unicorn. The look on his face, it could only be described as fearful, as if he were somehow afraid of what Razor could do to him. Razor didn't give it much though though as he quickly dropped the other unicorn's hoof and hit him with another uppercut to the face, which knocked him out cold. With that done, Razor turned to face Seth and Filia. The expression on Seth’s face was the same as ever, but Filia, she looked by all accounts… angry. “What?” was all Razor said to them. “Why did you do that?!” Filia shouted at him. “He was going to kill you, what would you have done?” Razor responded. “Well I wouldn’t have broken his leg,” Filia said to him. “Hey, you told me not to kill anypony so I didn’t,” Razor responded. "Yeah," Filia said. "But that doesn't mean you can cripple him like that. I mean, what if somepony else comes by and takes him out as an easy target?” “Maybe," Razor said to her as he took a step closer to her, the look on his face one of frustration, "But it’s not like everypony else here was just going let us walk right up to the High Tower just to say 'hi' so it’s not like we were gonna through this without hurting anypony.” "To be honest Princess he does have a point," Seth said, stepping between the two. "Yet you are right that now he’s easy pickings for a less merciful fighter here." “So are you saying that you’re okay with this?” Filia asked Seth. “Well…” Seth said pausing a bit to think of how to put what he wanted to say into words. “There’s a lot of other beings here and they must of been chosen to represent their universes for a reason. We can’t take too many chances with them, so I’m not saying that this is the most morally right thing to do, but we don’t have many better options.” “Whatever,” Razor said to them as he rolled his eyes and started walking in the direction of the high Tower. Filia and Seth just watched him go for a minute. Filia kept her eyes on him for several moments, the look of ire in her eyes not fading. "Look, I know, I get it," Seth said as he stepped up right next to her. "I don't like this that much either, and I'm not saying he's right, but for now, it's probably best if we just put this behind us and move on. Alright?" Filia was silent for a few moments before she responded. "It doesn't mean I have to like it," she said as she slowly started walking in the direction Razor went off in. Seth stood still for a few moments before following her. -A short while later- From there the three of them kept running in the direction of the High Tower until they could see the base of it. Right in front of them there stood a small park with a few more taller buildings surrounding them, as it usually was towards the center of Canterlot. The park, like the rest of this ruined version of Canterlot, looked no worse for wear, as there wasn't any grass in it, nor was there really much of anything anymore. It was more of a vacant lot of dirt with a few bent and broken benches and a bit of one wall still up for some reason. While the High Tower was still a ways away, they were getting closer. “Help! Somepony help!” They all heard somepony familiar shout. The moment that scream hit their ears, they all stopped dead in their tracks. They all recognized that voice, which was why all of them were confused as all tartarus what that voice was doing here. The three of them all looked down one of the many other streets of this ruined Canterlot to see another pony running towards them, a lavender colored mare with a purple mane with a magenta streak running through it. “Twilight!” Razor shouted as he turned to make a mad dash for her. “Razor wait!” Seth shouted at him, but to no avail. Before Razor could make it more than a few feet however, Filia stepped in between the two of them and fired a magical blast from her horn directly at Twilight. The moment the blast hit Twilight, she suddenly started spazzing out for a bit before her body was suddenly covered in green flames. When the flames cleared, a changeling with yellow eyes stood in Twilight’s place. Both the changeling and Razor stopped running the moment that happened, Razor with more of a screeching halt than the changeling as he stood there with his mouth hanging open. The changeling paused for a moment and looked at itself to see that it was indeed, no longer in disguise. Thinking quickly, Seth spawned a crowbar and threw it right at the Changeling. “Well, crap,” the changeling said right before Seth’s crowbar hit it in the face and knocked it out cold. “Okay, I’m not going to bust your flank for falling for that, though I must point out that telling by the muscle and lack of a mane that was a male changeling that you just wanted to tackle hug.” Seth said to Razor while playfully sticking out his tongue. “Ha ha very funny,” Razor said sarcastically as he turned around and started walking back toward them. He did not seem amused in the slightest. “What was that about?” Filia couldn’t help but ask Seth. “Well you see Razor here…” Seth began to say before Razor suddenly teleported in front of him and glared at him with literal fire in his eyes. “Don’t say anything or I will f***ing end you,” Razor said to him. “Fine, but I’m sure the Princess here could put two and two together.” Seth said with a smirk. Razor just stared at him for a few moments before he responded. After a few moments, the fire in his eyes died down. “You really are a snarky bastard aren’t you?” Razor said. “Well that’s a little harsh," Seth said with a shrug. "But in my defense, my father’s the god of chaos, so I think I can get away with being a little snarky.” At that, any inkling of anger Razor had for Seth at the moment was immediately dropped in favor of confusion. “Wait, what?” Razor immediately said the moment those words sank in. “Guys! Focus!” Filia shouted at both of them. Both Razor and Seth turned to look at Filia, who didn’t really seem that amused either. “We still have a job to do, remember.” Both Seth and Razor kept their eyes on her for a moment before looking back up at the high tower, then back to her. “Right,” Filia continued once she was sure she had their attention back. “Let’s get going then.” “No, really,” Razor said, not wanting to let this topic drop. “What was that he said about his dad being the god of chaos?” “It’s not important right now!” Filia shouted as she started walking through park. Seth followed her shortly behind. Razor held out a hoof out to stop him, but he was too late, Seth was already on his way again. Razor stood there for a moment and let out a loud groan of frustration before he stomped his hooves in the ground and followed them. The moment the three of them stepped into the vacant lot that used to be a park however, something large fell from the sky and landed right in the middle of it. When the cloud of dust that was kicked up from the blast cleared, the sight in front of them practically made them all freeze in terror. In front of them was the black dragon that they all saw when this whole thing started, and it’s eyes were fixed on them. *Seth* My eyes widened in terror the second I saw the dragon, and I, along with Filia and Razor all stopped in our tracks. ‘Gee, this is just great. Just bucking great!’ I thought to myself. ‘A dragon. A bucking dragon! Hell a black dragon!’ Now granted it’s a legend, but I've heard some ponies say that black dragons are the most vicious, bloodthirsty, and powerful type out of all the dragons. Plus, their scales are harder than any armor and a single scale from them can make a sword that can cut almost anything. Granted I’m not an expert on dragons so I didn't really know how much of that was true, and I don’t know how the color of ones scales would affect anything, but if that was true… then we might be bucked. The dragon looked at us with a look that kinda surprised me. It wasn’t of rage like most of the other fighters we ran into. It seemed to be calm. I can’t describe it, but there was just a sense of honor about this dragon. Then I saw a Razor ready a fireball. “Okay, don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not trying to be a smart-flank, but it’s a dragon. I don’t think fire's the best choice,” I said to Razor. Razor just shot me another glare. “Maybe we can reason with it?” Filia suggested. "Yeah well what do you suggest?" Razor said sarcastically. We all turned back to the dragon, who was just sitting there waiting for us, like it wanted to see what we could do. Right then the three of us ran at it. ‘Okay fire’s out the window here… Wait how do you beat a dragon? I mean Screwball would probably just throw acid in it’s face. That would be useful right now, but Filia probably wouldn’t like it,’ those thoughts ran through my mind as we ran at it. I spawned a tomahawk a threw it right at the dragon’s shoulder. The blade of said tomahawk shattered like a glass bottle thrown at a stone wall the moment it hit the dragon. The pieces of the blade disappeared as I tried to think of what to do next, but then I saw that dragon turn it's attention to me. I charged up my magic and shot a blast on energy at it, aiming to hit it right between it’s eyes, but the dragon quickly turned and blocked it with one of it’s wings. ‘Okay can’t hurt it with fire, weapons, or magic blasts. This is bad. This is really really bad,’ I thought to myself, my eyes darting all over, ‘Since electricity didn’t even work on that minotaur, that’s out, and trying to trap something this big in the ground would use up most of my magic. Crap this is so bucked!’ Eventually I noticed what looked like a broken picnic table on it’s side, and I ducked behind it. There, I cast my invisibility spell and my shadow puppet spell. I then made my puppet leap over the table and shout, “Hey! You overgrown lizard!” The dragon kept his attention on what he thought was me, but was actually the fake me. “Yeah I’m talking to you! You think you’re so big and scary?!” I made the puppet say, sounding braver than I probably was right now. “You think you can just kill everypony here just because you’re a dragon huh?!” While my puppet continued to berate the beast I snuck off trying to find a weak point or something, then I noticed it's stomach. Now like I said, I’m no expert on dragons, but from what I do know thanks to talking with Spike, a dragon’s underbelly is not as thick as its scales, so that might be our best chance. I got up close to the dragon unnoticed, thank you magic, and began to charge my horn up with electricity. Suddenly I then felt a wave of heat behind me. "SETH!" I heard Filia shout. The moment I heard that I looked back and saw blue flames burning where my shadow puppet was, going out not long after. I also saw Filia running to where it was. She looked at the spot where my puppet was for a moment, but then she looked at the dragon with what could only be described as pure rage in her eyes. “How dare you?! How dare you?! He was my friend?! He had a wife! He had friends! And now he’s gone!” She screamed. Afterward she paused for a few second. “Now they're all gone... I'll kill you!” Holy sh*t she really thinks I’m dead. And that was when I felt it, so much electricity flowing through my horn, more than I’ve ever channeled before, I guess that’s what happens when you charge it for this long. I pointed my horn right at the dragon’s stomach, uncloaking myself as well. The dragon reeled back from that, showing clear signs of pain. “Seth?!” Filia shouted at me with a mix of joy and surprise. “I’m fine don’t-” I begin to shout, but then I suddenly felt the back of the dragon’s claw smack against me, sending me flying away like I was a fly or something. I crashed into the table I was hiding behind earlier, smashing through it like it was nothing. After a couple of seconds I tried to stand up despite the wave of pain, and I saw Filia taking flight, though she was quickly brought down to earth by a smack from the dragon’s tail. The dragon, now airborne, looked down at Filia, and opened it’s mouth. I could see blue flames forming in the back of it’s mouth. “Look out!” I shouted. I tried to sprint towards her, but the second I tried to run I felt even more pain than before and I ended up collapsing onto the ground. As Filia stood back up the dragon shot it's azure flames at her. Filia looked up at this and her eyes went wide. Before she could react, there was a sudden quick flash of green and Razor appeared next to her. Without saying anything, he pushed her out of the way. Only for the flames to come upon him. Filia was about to shout his name, as was I, but before we both could, we suddenly heard him laugh. Not long after, the dragon's fire turned from blue to orange. The fire then started to spin around, revealing the grey unicorn underneath, the sadistic almost gleeful grin back on his face. After a few moments, the flames went out and the dragon fell from the sky back to the earth. “You know," Razor said to the dragon as he slowly started walking towards it. "When I was in the guard, they said that my fire was more potent than a dragon’s. I never did get around to testing that.”