//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 // Story: Dimensional Battle Royale // by RazortheAwesome //------------------------------// *Razor* Razor vs The Dragon No Redemption by Combichrist With the same sadistic smile that he wore during both of his previous fights, Razor walked forwards towards the black dragon with his head held high. Any pony with half a brain cell would have turned tail and ran so far that they would have preferably put a continent between themselves and the dragon if they could, but Razor didn’t. He just kept walking forward. “Interesting,” the dragon growled as he watched Razor advance towards him. “Were you any other pony, I would say that you were merely acting brave for the sake of your so called friends, but you…” The dragon paused for a moment as he extended his neck a bit and looked Razor over. Right there, their eyes locked. “Something about you. I honestly don’t know whether you really are that arrogant, or that stupid.” “Maybe I’m just stronger than I look,” Razor replied, his confidence not faltering at all. “It matters not,” the dragon replied as he pulled his neck back again. “Whether it be in battle or in retreat, you will die like all those unfortunate enough to have crossed paths with me in this so called game.” Suddenly, Razor saw the dragon’s throat glow as he suddenly opened his mouth and shot his neck forward right at Razor. Razor teleported out of the way right as the dragon’s jaws snapped shut on him. Enraged, the dragon let out a loud growl before he spread his wings and took to the skies before he opened his mouth and shot his azure flames down at the ground where Razor once stood. From there he then moved on to his left, towards Filia, who had already ducked behind a nearby wall that was still standing and put a magical shield around herself. From there the dragon then moved over towards the table that Seth still hid behind as he covered the ground in his azure flames. Before he even reached the table though, suddenly, he let out a loud roar in pain as something landed on him and stabbed him right in the top of his mouth. The dragon looked up to see Razor standing on top of it’s head with a spear stuck right in the top half of it’s mouth. Razor then pulled back on the spear and diverted the dragon’s head, and by extension it’s flames, away from the ground and up towards the sky. The strain on Razor’s muscles was enormous, but still he held onto the spear as he kept pulling back. The dragon, not amused by this at all, stopped shooting fire and quickly spun itself around in mid air and flicked it’s head and neck to it’s right, which with the dragon’s raw power and momentum, flung Razor from his head like a gnat. The dragon’s throat began to glow again as he prepared to blast his azure flames at Razor again. Before he could though, Razor suddenly disappeared via a teleport again. Instinctively, the dragon shut its mouth and turned around. It looked behind it, then down towards the scorched earth below it, then above since it wasn’t about to fall for the same trick twice, but the dragon didn’t see Razor anywhere. Then, suddenly, from behind it, several large fireballs flew right at it and hit it’s back. Upon impact, they all exploded and knocked the dragon from the sky and back to the ground. Right as the dragon hit the earth, Razor, who had come from out of nowhere, ran right up to it and, with raw magic surrounding hits right hoof, punched the dragon in its face. While no normal punch from a pony should have even made a dragon flinch, Razor’s magically enhanced punch knocked the dragon back as if it were but a pony. Not one to let down with one blow, Razor quickly charged his left hoof with magic and punched the dragon again, this time knocking back at least a foot. Before Razor could charge his right hoof again though, the dragon suddenly pulled it’s head back and headbutted Razor right as he was about to punch it. The resulting impact from the dragon’s head knocked Razor off balance as he was knocked back several feet onto his back. Razor bounced as he hit the ground, but as he rolled back up, he got to his hooves and skidded himself to a halt. Right as Razor’s eyes met the dragon’s again, he saw it open it’s mouth, and in it’s throat he saw it’s blue fire emerging from it. Quickly, Razor turned to the left and ran as the dragon shot another blast of fire from its mouth right at Razor. Not about to let him go though, the dragon followed Razor and kept it’s flames following him as it scorched the entire field and street in front of it. Despite the intense heat behind him, Razor kept running. He kept running until he saw a wrecked building in front of him. Without stopping, he ran towards it and dove inside through one of the windows. The dragon however, didn’t stop it’s flow of fire as it scorched the building continuously until the whole thing was lit like a birthday cake with over a thousand candles as it crumbled to ashes. After a few moments of continuous flames, the dragon stopped and admired it’s work. Razor hadn’t come out of the building, so at best, he was ashes now. Suddenly, the ground beneath the dragon began to feel hot as he held up his claw off the ground to see what was beneath him. Etched into the whole ground around him, was a large fire seal. The dragon didn’t show any response though as within moments, the entire ground beneath the dragon exploded in a massive ball of fire that could be seen even from the edge of the city. Seth and Filia, as close as they were, had to keep their own magical shields up to keep the sheer heat from burning them. Without warning, suddenly from the sky, several more fireballs rained down on the ball of fire and exploded the second they hit the ground. After a moment, Razor reappeared in front of the inferno, the heat didn’t seem to be affecting him at all. “HA! Is that all you got!?” Razor yelled at the flames as they kept on burning in front of him. The very sight of him made his eyes sparkle a little bit for some reason as the smile on his face grew a little wider. Suddenly, from within the flames, there was a stirring. Razor saw it, and quickly put up a magical shield, but it was too late. From the flames, a black claw that was attached to a black wing came out and backhanded Razor right in the face. The sheer force of the dragon’s blow shattered Razor’s magical shield like glass and knocked Razor back at least twenty feet. Razor landed in the street behind him and rolled for several more feet as the dragon, enraged as all tartarus now, leapt from the flames and chased after Razor, ignoring all things in it’s path. It chased after Razor as he rolled on the ground for several more feet before he stopped, at which point, the dragon opened it’s mouth and bit down right on him. However, like last time, he wasn’t there when he closed his mouth. Suddenly, from above again, Razor fell on top of the dragon’s head and kicked it into the ground below with magic encasing both of his rear hooves. He kicked the dragon’s head right into the ground as he dug right through it easier than a diamond dog. Not done, Razor encased his right hoof in magic and raised it to punch the dragon farther into the earth, but as he did, the dragon, seemingly annoyed by this, spread his wings, pulled his face from the earth, and took off into the air. Razor quickly grabbed the dragon’s right horn and held on for his own life as the dragon flew higher and higher into the air without stopping. After a few moments, Razor looked down at the ground beneath him to see that the remains of the park they had been fighting in was now but a mere dot in the map like surface below, yet still the dragon kept climbing. After a few more moments, Razor began to feel his grip on the dragon’s horn slip a little bit and he let go. Hundreds, thousands of feet, he had no idea how high up he was, but he began to fall right down through all of them as gravity took him back to the surface. The dragon, sensing that Razor had let go of him, turned itself around and looked right at him, his throat glowing as bright as it always had. Within less than a moment, a concentrated blast of azure flames shot forth from its mouth right at Razor. As he saw the flames coming towards him, Razor’s eyes went wide a little bit as he gathered up as much raw magical power in his horn as he could muster. The moment he was sure that the power he had was sufficient, he converted his raw magic into his own, orange flames and shot them up in one, powerful, concentrated blast right up at the dragon. Razor’s orange flames and the dragon’s azure flames hit each other with the force of a train behind each. Despite the fall, and despite all odds, Razor still held on and fed more fire into his attack as he kept pushing on the dragon’s flames. Likewise, the dragon did not relent, not even for a moment. Both Razor’s and the dragon’s flames fought each other for dominance for several moments until they both suddenly exploded with the force of a sun. The intense heat that came from the explosion was too much even for Razor as he had to cover his face. When he dropped his hooves to see above him, the only sight that greeted his eyes was the black dragon flying right through the explosion right down at him. Instinctively, Razor teleported away right as the dragon snapped its jaws down on where Razor was. When he didn’t feel Razor crunching beneath it’s jaws again, he stopped and aligned itself upwards again as it looked down at the ground below. The dragon wasn’t an idiot; he knew that as something that had no way of flying, the only place that a smart being like Razor should have teleported to was the ground. However, instead, Razor dropped in from above it again with a spear drawn and stabbed the dragon right through it’s left hand, and by extension, it’s left wing. The dragon roared loudly in pain for a moment before it spun around 180 degrees in mid air and flung Razor off of it’s wing and right into one of the building’s below it. Before he hit the building, Razor put up a magical shield around himself as he crashed right through the building, out the other side, and landed right in the street below. Again, Razor bounced on the ground as his magical shield dropped the second he came out from the building and rolled for a few feet before he got back up on his hooves. The pain in his hooves was enormous, as he not only had three rough landings on them, but had been punching something that was by all accounts, harder than punching through a wall made of metal. Yet still, Razor stood up and stood his ground, his breathing betraying the actual amount of stamina that he had left. The dragon, it’s flying ability unimpaired, landed on top of the building that Razor had crashed through and looked down at him. He stared at Razor for a few moments as the two locked eye contact again. Neither one of their eyes left each others. The dragon made a low growl as Razor’s saw it’s throat glow again. The dragon however, saw and felt Razor’s breathing, and he could tell that it betrayed him. At that, the dragon let out what seemed like a smile before it suddenly leapt off of the building and flew right at Razor with another loud roar. *Seth* Seth vs The Dragon Rules of Nature (Platinum Mix) by Jamie Christopherson I struggled to stand back up, as I was still in a rather severe amount of pain from being sent through that table. I looked around, and in the distance I saw Razor standing in the street, and the dragon flying right at him. Even from here it was obvious that Razor was getting tired, and despite some obvious damage on the dragon, which did honestly surprise me, I knew he couldn’t keep it up forever. Before the dragon could get him, I quickly teleported to Razor and before he had time to react or anything, I teleported both of us about 30 feet away. The dragon then landed on the ground and turned towards the two of us. “Razor, run!” I said to him. “Like tartarus I will,” Razor said as he stepped up right next to me, spawned a spear, spun it around and lit it aflame with his magic. “I’m not done with this f***er yet.” “Look,” I said to him. “You’re tired, and I can tell you’ve already used a lot of magic.” Razor took a few heavy breaths for a moment before he spoke again. “What, this, this is nothi-” Razor tried to say before I interrupted him. “Don’t bulls**t me!” I angrily said to him. “Look, just get out of here. Find Filia.” “Why?” he asked, now seeming confused. “What are you going to do?” At that, I looked down and said, “I’m going to try something, but if it works…… Then I definitely need you and Filia to be as far away from me as you can.” Razor was silent for a moment as he seemed to seriously think about what I said. After a moment, he just nodded and teleported away. With him gone I turned back to face the dragon, who seemed to be getting ready to shoot more of his flames. I just simply closed my eyes and thought, ‘Well I guess I have no other choice… So unless you want us to become the results of last time Rainbow tried to make pancakes, I suggest you help me out here.' Suddenly I heard a faint laughter followed by a familiar voice, ‘Alright, fine, this seems like it could be fun.’ I then opened my eyes to see azure flames coming down at me and I instinctively put up a magic shield. As I did, I quickly looked down at my front hooves and saw my black coat slowly turning blue. As the flames died, I dropped my shield and let out a laugh, a distorted laugh, and said, “I’ll give you a choice. Kneel before me or die you evolutionary reject.” ‘Boy that doesn't sound like a cliche villain line at all, General Zlop.’ ‘Oh shut up!’ “What is this?” it said to me. “Another pony who think’s he’s somehow special? Do you really think that little trick is going to help you defeat me?" I didn't say anything at that. "Regardless, I'll just have to make sure to end this quickly." I smirked at that and the words, “Bring it on,” came out my mouth. I looked at the dragon who shot more of his fire at me, but I quickly formed a ball of magic around all of it before it hit me. Within an instant the fire died down from the lack of oxygen. The dragon then lunged forward and raised it’s claw. Before it could hit me, I made a magic tendril shoot out from my horn and wrap itself around the dragon’s wrist, just like I did with Razor. The dragon then brought up it’s other claw, but I grabbed it with another tendril before it could do anything. The dragon pushed back against my grasp as it tried to get close to me, but I held it back. It tried to fly as well, but surprisingly, I was able to keep it from that too. After a second of fighting, the dragon brought its head down low right in front of me and shot more of it’s fire right at me. I quickly put up a magical shield right as it did and its fire passed right over me like a rock. After the dragon stopped shooting it’s flames, I dropped the shield and headbutted the dragon, which surprisingly, actually did something. The dragon roared in pain as if I had headbutted a normal pony and I threw it back away from me with my tendrils. The dragon landed on its back about twenty feet away from me. I couldn’t help but laugh as I saw this. “Pitiful,” I said as the dragon rolled back onto its feet and let out a loud roar at me. The Dragon then charged towards me and brought a claw up, but before it could slam it down on me I teleported on top of one of its left shoulder and pointed my horn at one of it’s scales, sampling it in a way. By the time I was done, I looked up from the scale and was met by a dragon claw that like before, flicked me away like a bug and sent me into the next building, through a window. Thankfully I was able to put a magical shield over myself to avoid the broken glass. I stood up and saw what was once a simple office building, though with some damages. ‘So is there a reason for scanning that scale?’ ‘Trust me on this, I have an idea.’ ‘Sorry, but why should I trust a thief?’ ‘Because one, I’m not a thief, and two if we don’t defeat this dragon, we’re pretty much dead.’ ‘Fine, what do you have in mind?’ ‘Remember those stone gargoyles from Filia’s universe?’ At that I heard the voice laugh. ‘I see what you’re getting at. I can take care of this.’ I then teleported back down into the street and shouted, “Hey fluffy! You miss me?!” ‘Fluffy?’ ‘Do you ever stop talking?’ ‘Is that a rhetorical question?’ The dragon looked down at me and growled, but before it could do anything my horn lit up and my red aura appeared on several areas on the dragon’s body, each bit was around a single scale. Then I pull them all at once. The dragon suddenly let out loud a roar in pain as about a dozen scales were spontaneously ripped out of it’s body. I then levitated them over to where I was. Another distorted laugh came out of me followed by the words, “You know, they say a black dragon scale is sharp enough to cut almost anything, let’s test that, shall we?” With that I sent six of the scales flying at the dragon right as he flew up into the air. Each one stabbed into the dragons gut and got stuck. At that the dragon let out another painful roar as it held it’s injured stomach. “Time to bring you back down to earth.” I’m not sure what the voice meant by that, but the next thing I knew, I teleported onto the back of the dragon’s left wing. I then I drove one of the scales into a cut that I assume Razor made earlier and slid down the wing, the scale cutting through it like butter. As the makeshift blade cut through the bottom of the wing I teleported back to the ground and looked up to see the now one winged dragon, and the severed wing, fall down to the ground, the wing landing on an already destroyed building. The rest of the dragon on the other hoof, landed on the street in front of me. “Alright, let’s finish this!” The voice made me shout as it levitated the rest of the scales around it, but I knew that this was enough. Using all my mental might, I am able to mutter the word, “No,” and forced him to drop the scales. “No!? What do you mean no!? We… I mean, I, got this beast on the ropes!” “Y-You’ve done enough. We don’t need to kill it.” “Oh I see, you’re getting soft aren’t you Sethy-boy? Should I remind you what we did to Inferno and Dopple? So why not here? Is it because he didn’t insult that bitch of a wife of yours?” “R-Rainbow…. has nothing to do with this, now let go!” “And give you control again? Oh I don’t think so. Maybe now you’ll see what it’s like to just be a voice in somepony’s head. Gotta say I’m impressed that you’re still able to talk while I’m in control.” I let out a grunt and shouted, “Filia! If you’re close enough to hear me, shoot me with that beam again!” “What?! No! I…!” The voice suddenly screamed right before I felt a blast of magic hit me in the side and I fell to the ground. In my head, I heard the voice make a dramatic “Noooooo!” but it quickly got quiet. From somewhere behind me, I could hear hoofsteps of somepony running towards me. Across from me, I saw Razor teleport in right over the dragon’s head and knock it right into the dirt, knocking it out cold. “I didn’t hit you too hard did I?” Filia asked as she walked right up to me. “No, it’s fine.” I said to her getting up. “Okay, what the f*cking tartarus was that?” Razor asked as he walked up to us. "That's the second time you've done that. Seriously, what the f*** dude?" “I’d rather not talk about it,” I said to him. “Not talk about it?!” he said to me, sounding annoyed. “Last time you did that you nearly killed me, and now you just took out that dragon like it was nothing by cutting off it’s wing with it’s own scale, which I didn't think was possible by the way, then out of nowhere you stop and start arguing with yourself! Oh, and what else, oh yeah you said that your dad was the god of chaos earlier! I’m sorry, but no, just no, I’m not gonna let this go. Just what the f*** are you?” “Razor, relax. If Se…” Filia began to say, but I held up my hoof to tell her to stop. I let out a sigh and asked, “Are you familiar with a draconequus, Discord?” “Yeah, it’s kind of hard not to be.” Razor told me. “Well…” I said, taking in a deep breath. “He’s my father. He created me.” At that Razor got a look of confusion and said, “Wait, what?” “Yes. You see, Discord, he can make anything he wants with a simple snap of his talons, or lion claw depending on which hand he decides to use, but anyways, he got bored and with a snap he created me and my sister Screwball. Well, he created her about ten minutes or so before me, but that’s beside the point. So, here I am, a pony who’s technically not even two years old, but I have the body and mind of a stallion in his early twenties, and I’m already married to my dream mare.” Razor just stood there for a few seconds to let what I just said sink in. After some time he said, “You’ve got to be sh***ing me. There's no way in tartarus that you’re two.” “Almost, I will be in September,” I replied. “Okay fine, but what does that ‘rage mode’ thing or whatever have to do with it?” “Well from what I understand, it’s what Discord originally wanted me to be like, but it was sealed into my mind when he got defeated. Now it only really comes out when I’m either really angry, or in this I just sorta gave it control.” “So it's like a split personality or something like that?” Razor asked, seemingly even more confused. “No, I mean I was able to see what was going on and talk with it, but that’s about it.” Razor was silent for a few moments after that. After a while, he laughed to himself a bit and threw on a smirk. “Dude, you really need to learn how to control that,” he said to me. “Oh yeah, I need to learn how to control a being inside my head that only wants to destroy and kill everything it sees and the one time we were separated… Well if I went into that we’d be here all day.” Then Razor said, “Dude, trust me, I can tell you’re stronger than that. I mean, you made it stop you from killing the dragon so….?” At that, his words trailed off a bit and he looked back towards the still sleeping dragon. “Oh right…. Do we still need to worry about that?” “Don’t worry, he’s out cold,” Filia said. “I had to seal his wound with a spell to stop him from bleeding to death, but he’ll still never fly again.” “You see!” I shouted at Razor. “I didn’t want to do that! I gave that dragon an injury that’ll affect it for the rest of it’s life if we all make it out of here. It’s even made me disfigure somepony else before, and it’s made me kill! You can’t even begin understand what that’s like?!” I then looked down towards the ground on the verge of tears. “Because of that, I sometimes fear that I might go to Tartarus when I die instead of some great afterlife with my friends or something. I know it’s stupid, but I don’t know. I’m just not sure if I’m a good pony half of the ti-.” Before I could even finish that last sentence, Razor suddenly grabbed me by the neck and pulled me towards him. I looked right into his eyes, the expression on his face was suddenly different, like he was suddenly more serious, and the look in his eyes, he was glaring at me. “You’re not the only one that has to live with a monster inside him every single day,” he said to me. After a few moments, he let me go and started walking towards the tower. “Consider yourself lucky that in your case its actions aren’t entirely your fault.” I wanted to ask him for some clarification on exactly what he meant by that, but I didn’t even know how to even begin to ask. I looked at Filia, but she just shrugged at me. -At the tower- After couple of minutes, or at least what I thought felt like minutes, It really was hard to tell how much time has passed by here, we reached the High Tower. “Okay you two, stand next to the tower and face each other from a couple of inches apart.” Filia ordered. We did so, but Razor then asked, “So Filia, are you sure this will work?” “To be honest, I have no idea, but it’s our best hope.” I wasn’t really sure how to feel about that. With that she backed up about five feet away from us and her horn was soon covered by her blue aura. Then two beams of blue magic came from her horn and went into the both of ours. Now, I couldn’t see mine, but I noticed that around Razor’s horn was a mix of her blue aura and his green aura, so I could only imagine that it the same thing was happening with mine too. Then, as if on their own, beams of magic shot out from both his horn and my horn and into the side of the force field surrounding the tower. “Okay, now you two try to walk backwards, but be careful, the forcefield may be heavy.”, Filia told us. We did as she said, and at first it seemed fine, but then once we were about a foot apart I found it harder to take the next step back. It felt as if I was trying to pull down a locked steel door using nothing but my telekinesis. Across from me I could see Razor struggling a bit as well. Still, we kept on walking back. Despite the fact that I felt that I was on the verge of a migraine, I could only imagine the others felt the same, I suddenly heard something that almost sounded like plastic wrapping being ripped. I glance at the forcefield and saw a small hole about the size of an apple. Once I realized that this was actually working, I kicked it into high gear, using all my strength despite the mental strain to pull this hole and make it bigger. Then, after some time I looked again and I see that we did it. The hole was big enough for a pony to get through. “Yes, now hold that for…” Filia began to say, but she was suddenly interrupted by the sound of her getting hit. With her gone the spell broke and the hole started to slowly close. “Well look at we got here, lad,” I turned my head to see the blue minotaur from yesterday, though he had some visible bruises and his left horn was chipped. With him was a buffalo with some burnt fur. “You idiots!” Razor shouts at the two as he created another fireball. The next thing I knew, I felt a magical grip around me and I was thrown through the hole with Razor. After we landed on the other side, I got up to see Filia looking at us. “Go!” She shouted, “I can hold these two off, go and finish this!” After she finished that sentence the hole closed between us. "Filia!" I shouted at her as I ran towards her, only to run right into the now closed forcefield. “You heard the mare, let’s go!” Razor shouted at me. "But Filia-" "She's an alicorn, she'll be fine!" Razor said as he turned around and ran towards the tower. I didn't know what to do for a moment, but with Razor and I on this side of the forcefield and Filia out there, I knew there was only one thing we could do, so I hesitantly followed Razor towards the High Tower.