Glarin awoke in the hotel room suite. When he moved his hands up to rub the odd sleep from his eyes he noticed that his left hand was in a golden chain that came from a hidden door within the wall. Spike was next to him sprawled out on the floor with his right hand held by a different golden chain. Spike was still fast asleep from whatever they gave them.
“Well look here, one of the stupid rent a guard’s woke up already. I thought you said this magic sleep tonic was supposed to last an hour at least. Its only been 15 minutes!”
“A drink that makes you sleep? Good thing I have an iron stomach. But which of you clanless beard-shaving sissy’s used a golden chain to hold us back? Gold can be broken easily.” Glarin began to pull on the chain only to be puzzled at it not distorting as he pulled.
“Sorry to burst yer bubble bud, but that chain isn’t made of gold, its made of steel and then permanently enchanted to be unbreakable. You see, this is a special room that we give to, special guests.” The stallion side stepped along with his partners in crime reveling Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle, they were tied up and gagged, both of them fully awake with panic clear in their eyes. The Stallion lowered his head and whispered to Sweetie Belle
“You know that talent agent that ‘scouted’ you? Yeah, he works for us.” The green Stallion just grinned at her sad face
“You see, the Boss liked what he saw at this little white mares performance today, and well, he wants her now. Turning down his offer earlier wasn’t a good idea, now we gotta use force. This friend of yours though, well she’s free game for the rest of us.” The Stallion licked his lips and turned to face Apple Bloom. As he turned to face her, he felt a chill down his spine.
Rage Activated.
“Who ever touches one hair on either of their heads again is dead!” The Stallion turned around with a half smile on his face. The Stallion met with Glarins wide eyed glare, his eyes seemed to burn with a fire. He felt threatened at first, but remembered he was already chained and couldn’t move very far.
“Yeah? And what are you gonna do about it huh? You’re chained to the buildings support beams with an unbreakable chain. We have the key to those locks, plus we took your precious axes. We left em in the rooms bathtub filled with salt water. I’ll enjoy watching them rust later. Your empty threats don’t scare me.” The Stallion gave off a toothy grin. While Glarin just kept his gaze locked onto the green Stallion. He soon lost interest as Glarins gaze didn’t falter.
When the green stallion turned back around Glarin looked around the room for something he could use, he reached over and grabbed a nearby accent table. As he dragged it closer to him the drawer fell out and along with it some random items like a quill and note pad, also a small letter opener that looked like a butter knife.
The Stallion turned back at the noise Glarin created and lightly laughed. The pony on the far right spoke up with a taunting tone.
“What are you gonna with that stupid table? Throw it at me? Oohh I'm soo scared.” Him and the rest of the ponies began to laugh. Only to have the pony on the far right get impacted by said table. That pony was thrown back by the table and impacted against the wall with the table breaking apart. The pony was knocked out cold.
“He really did throw it... Well no matter. We got some time before we gotta give the boss Sweetie here. So lets have some fun with her yellow friend.” The small group of stallions went back to business now that Glarin seemed to have nothing else within reach to throw at them.
“Come little mare, we wont hurt you much...” The green stallion with a blue unicorn stallion removed her gag as they tried to position her better. “... would you hold still!” Apple Bloom was struggling as best she could and was able to get one of her back hooves free.
“No! Just let us go!” Apple Bloom thrashed her back hoof out striking the green stallion across the jaw.
“Why you little!” The Green Stallion smacked his hoof across Apple Blooms face. She let out a cry of pain as her head hit the floor. The sound of a chain hitting the floor with a heavy guttural growl was heard as she hit the floor.
Fury Engaged.
The consistent chill he had been feeling suddenly intensified ten fold. Like a bucket of ice water was dropped on him. Every hair on his body stood on end and he could feel beads of sweat run down his forehead. With a slow turn of his head he looked back to where Glarin should of been, only to see the dwarf standing right next to him. The fire he had seen in his eyes before had become a blazing inferno of hellfire.
“Ek Wurgym!” Glarin shot out his right hand and wrapped it around the green Stallions neck. He lifted the stallion up in the air one handed and began to tighten his grip.
“H-how...” The Stallion was trying to use his hooves to pry Glarins hand off, but to no use “...get out!” the Stallion looked over to the wall Glarin was at, and saw that there was a trail of blood leading up to them, with Glarins hand still held by the golden chain and a letter opener sitting in the middle of a puddle of blood.
“Crazy...” The Green Stallion stopped trying to pry Glarins hand off and began to throw his hooves into Glarins face. “...Rent a Guard!” The Green Stallion kept pummeling his hooves into Glarins face, only to stop when the hand around his throat began crushing his windpipe. With a loud snap the green pony went limp and was flung into the door and out into the hallway with a loud crash.
The other ponies watched in absolute shock as their makeshift leaders neck was crushed and then thrown a good 20 feet away and through a door. Glarin turned to look at the blue unicorn and pointed at him with his bloody stump.
“You touched her too!” The unicorn in question began to back away while the others simply backed away from him as fast as possible. In a desperate attempt to fend off Glarin, the unicorns horn began to glow with a small flame forming.
“E-Eat fire and Die!” A large flame spewed forth from his horn for a few seconds before stopping. He looked out in horror as Glarin had simply held out his left arm to block the flames with the bloody stump. The bleeding had stopped as the flames had seared it closed.
“Thanks.” The Ponies eyes went wide while his pupils turned into pin pricks, he began to charge his horn again only to have his horn grabbed by Glarin causing his spell to fizzle out. Glarin lifted him by his horn and looked directly into his eyes and spoke with a deep guttural voice “Lets see if you can fly!”
The pony began to panic and thrash wildly as he was thrown through the window on the 35th floor.
Glarin turned to face the other ponies who were just cowering in a corner. One of them tossed the key in his direction.
“Please let us live!”
“Get out...” The ponies did just that and ran out of the room as fast as possible. Glarin took a deep breath and exhaled calming himself. He went over to Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. He undid their binding so they could move and speak again. Bloom and Sweetie just had tears in their eyes as they looked at what Glarin had done to get them out of the situation he had already warned them about.
“Take the key and get Spike out, try to wake him up, I gotta get my axes...”
“B-but your hand! W-w...” Sweetie Belle’s sentence was cut off by Glarin.
“Don’t worry, I still got one left...” said Glarin as he raised his right hand and wiggled his fingers for her to see “...Now get Spike out of the chains and wake him up. Lets just focus on getting out of here and back to your sisters.” Glarin went into the rooms bathroom to get his axes while Sweetie Belle levitated the key and undid the locks on Spikes chains.
Glarin came back out of the bathroom with both axes, his left axe in its sheathe. He went over to the bed and set his right axe down so he could bring out the other. He started to rip the bed sheets into strips and wrap it around his left arm. He positioned the left axes handle so it hung off the bed and began to wrap the handle in with the strips of cloth he made. Spike began to stir awake.
Glarin continued to wrap the cloth around his forearm and the axes handle until he was running out of cloth and then tied it all together. As he lifted his left arm up off the bed he gave the axe a few practice swings and grunted.
“Not perfect, but it should hold long enough till I get you back to your sisters...” Glarin looked over to see Apple Bloom slapping Spike across the face.
“What?! You need a hospital! We can’t just...?!” Apple Bloom looked over to the broken down door with her ear twitching. She grabbed Spikes arm and tried to drag him away farther from the door. “Someones coming! Help me Sweetie Belle!” Sweetie used her magic to help Bloom drag Spike farther into the room.
“Hes dead! They were right, go set off the alarm!” said some pony who was out in the hallway. Glarin stood by the doorway while Sweetie and Bloom were still dragging Spike. When they came in they looked around breifly then looked at Glarin who had his right axe over his shoulder.
“Why don’t you just give up and give in? The Boss pays well and it looks like you’re already injured.”
“I’d rather mine trees you weak livered milk drinker!” Glarin brought his right axe down into the ground causing the floor to crack.
“Hey whoa! Take it easy! I’m just trying to tell you that you wont leave this place alive if you don’t hand those two mares over.”
Rage Activated
“You’ve just greased the handle of your axe, WITH YOUR CHOICE OF WORDS!” Glarin took a deep breath and roared in their direction followed with a charge. The ponies attempted to step back and out of the way but a few in the front lines were hit with the blunt of his axe and sent flying.
Seeing the fight was on the other ponies began to circle around him. Two of them were making their way toward Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Glarin lunged at the nearest earth pony and bashed his head with the head of his left axe.
A pegasus took to the air and dive-bombed at Glarin while holding a knife in his mouth. Glarin was impacted in the back by the Pegasus, but his chain mail shirt kept the knife from piercing his back. In retaliation Glarin spun around and smashed his elbow onto the Pegasi’s skull knocking him out.
“This damn rent a guard has chain mail under his shirt!” While Glarin was handling the ones who were attacking him, two stallions snuck around and were approaching Sweetie and Bloom.
Bloom and Sweetie Belle had their eyes glued to Glarin as he fiercely fought against, now 6, ponies who were obviously trying to kill him. Each of them had pulled out some kind of small bladed weapon or were using a piece of broken furniture to attack him with. Sweetie Belle was caught unaware when a pegasi stallion grabbed her from behind.
“Ahhh!” Sweetie Belle’s scream at being grabbed caused Glarin to loose focus on the fight at hand and look in her direction. He saw a light purple pegasi dragging her away by the tail. He was using his wings to pull her as he held onto the end of her tail with his hooves. In Glarins moment of distraction an earth pony using a makeshift club landed a blow on top of Glarins head. A stream of blood began to flow down his face.
“Shut-up and come with me!” Shouted the pegasi as he continued to drag her. The Stallion who just hit Glarin suddenly became nervous as his attack didn’t seem to do anything. Glarin completely ignored the stallion who had just struck him and instead focused on the pony that was touching Sweetie Belle.
“DON’T BLOODY TOUCH HER!” Glarin threw his right axe at the pegasi. Before the Pegasi could even think of dodging, the axe seemed to fly by his face with blood splattering in the direction of the axe. The pegasi fell back in agony when he saw that his left arm had broken and wraped itself around his chest while his right arm had been ripped from its socket.
The other pony that was sneaking up on Apple Bloom stopped in his tracks when he saw what Glarin did. He instead backed away slowly prompting Glarin to break into a full on charge in his direction. The pony tried to break into a sprint but his hooves slid on the hard wood floor causing him to slip.
Glarin didn’t slow his charge and grabbed the pony by his skull. Glarin lifted the pony’s head up and slammed it into the ground, pushing his head through the floor boards.
The others that watched it happen began to back out of the room. Before running down the hallway.
“Run! Were gonna need the unicorns!” yelled one of the ponies as they ran down the hallway. Glarin calmed himself again and picked up his axe and swing it toward the ground to get the blood off it.
“Are you two ok?” said Glarin as he walked up to them. Sweetie Belle nodded her head shakily with Apple Bloom. Spike began to stir awake.
“What, whats going on...?” As the sleep cleared from Spikes eyes and mind he looked around to see Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. Both of them looked like they were having a terrible day. Their manes were completely messed up and the fur under their eyes were stained with tears. Spike looked over to Glarin who was brandishing his axes.
“Some stuff that I don’t feel like explaining right now lad, all you need to know is that we need to get out of here.” Spike watched as Glarin was giving his axe a few swings. He suddenly noticed that Glarin was missing his left hand.
“W-what happened to your hand?!” Spike suddenly realized what the room looked like. Random ponies were strewn about the room unconscious. Some didn’t look like they were breathing at all though, hell that pegasi was missing an arm. The room was smashed to bits. He suddenly remembered having that drink and falling asleep.
“Nevermind the little details Spike. Just know we need to get out of here without letting them touch the girls.”
“Alright, you’re the boss...” Spike gave a light hearted chuckle “...Guess those drinks weren’t as safe as I thought.”
“Everyone makes mistakes when they’re young, just remember to not repeat them again later.” Sweetie Belle was trying to speak but through the tears she was having trouble.
“I-I-I’m s-s-s-sorry, I-I-I-I...”
“Lass, we don’t have time for your apologies and telling me how right I was about them. Like I said before, lets just focus on getting you back to your sisters safe N' sound. I have a promise to keep.”
“Yeah, if this hotel is under their control then we need to leave before they send in the calvary.” Glarin walked out to the hallway and looked down it both ways.
“Which way to the stairs?”
“Why the stairs?”
“You think they're going to let us use that elevator? As far as I’m concerned it’s a death trap. We take the stairs.” Spike was about to complain but kept his mouth shut. Glarin had been right about everything so far. Spike pointed down the left side of the hallway.
Glarin and Spike kept close to Sweetie and Bloom as they ran down the hallway toward the stairs. Glarin kicked the door open and looked inside. The stair case looked completely empty when he looked over the edge.
“Alright, its clear, lets get going.” Glarin stopped before he descended the stairs.
“Spike, I need you on the defensive. Keep them safe from everything. If they start to swarm you I’ll lend an axe. Don’t forget to use your breath weapon lad. I brought you because I trust you. Don’t disappoint me.” Spike just nodded his head.
“Alright, hang on a second then.” Spike inhaled a deep breath with a green gas forming in his mouth. He slowly exhaled the gas and it began to swirl around Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. After a moment the gas took on the solid form of plate armor.
“Good thinking Boyo. Lets get going before they find us.” Glarin just smirked at them wearing bright green plate armor before heading down the stairs.
“Hang on, one more thing.” Spike pulled out a piece of paper and a quill from nowhere. He scribbled something down on it and blew some green flames on it.
“What did you just do?” asked Glarin as he watched the piece of paper burn up with the smoke traveling away back out to the hallway.
“I just sent a quick letter to Celestia about what’s going on. Maybe she can send help or something.” Glarin grumbled.
“You shouldn’t be bothering royalty with such meager problems like ours lad. I don’t think she’ll send help.”
“I know her, she will.” Glarin just shook his head , thinking Spike delusional from the stress of the current situation.
As they neared the bottom of the stairwell they heard the sound of some of the doors opening above and below them.
“I found em! They took the stairs!” Ponies armed with weapons began to flood the stairwell with griffins and a few unicorns.
Glarin released a roar that caused many of them to back up and stop running toward them. At the bottom stood a griffin that was brandishing his claws with a unicorn behind him. Glarin jumped from the top of the stairs toward the griffin ready to splatter him across the wall.
Glarin landed upon a yellow barrier that appeared out of thin air. He responded by smashing his axes into it making it shatter. As he fell through the shield the bottom of his shoes smashed into the griffin and it crumpled under his weight.
One of the ponies with a spear thrust it at Glarin only to have it parried away and broken, followed by a strike from the axe head flinging him off the stair well and down to the bottom floor. Using the small distraction he gained from everyone watching the pony fall off the stairs he began to charge through them. Pushing pony and griffin aside. Some being trampled upon or pushed over the railing.
Spike was setting up a wall behind them to stop the advance of the gangsters that were coming from floors above them. All the while he was keeping up pace with Glarin while Sweetie and Bloom were close behind as they descended the last bit of stairs.
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In the main Lobby Krieger was waiting for them with a large group of unicorns and griffins. They could hear the shouts and screams coming from the stair case. Everyone in the lobby had thier focus upon the door. Waiting for it to open.
Only to have the wall next to the door smashed down. Glarin had kicked an earth pony in the barrel so hard he flew through the wall. As the dust was settling Glarin came flying out of the hole he had made with an orange glow around his body.
An orange unicorn was holding Glarin in her magic and was smacking him around the entrance way. After a few seconds the magical aura faded and he fell to the floor with the unicorn looking extremely winded as her legs wobbled. Spike came up behind the orange pony and picked her up, flinging her back into the stairwell and sealing it off with a new wall.
The ponies on the other side of the wall started beating upon it in hopes of breaking it.
“Where did all of these guys come from?!” shouted Sweetie Belle as she stood behind Spike. In the distance they heard that booming laugh they heard yesterday from Mr. Krieger.
“You best come with me nicely Ms. Belle. I’m sure you will enjoy being with the leader of one of the most influential gangs within Las Pegasus. The Blackstar Gang!” Mr. Krieger ended his little speech as he threw his claws up into the air and flaring out his wings.
“Besides, why would you hang out with some short fat monkey, when you could be standing with a tall majestic griffin such as myself.” The sound of metal hitting against tile echoed through the massive lobby as Glarin stood back up.
“YOU’LL BE LOOKIN UP AT ME WHEN I CUT OFF YER LEGS!” Yelled Glarin as he charged forward to the large group that stood between them and the way out.
Krieger snapped his claws together signaling the unicorns to begin charging their horns. Glarin was enveloped in 4 different colored glows as he was lifted from the ground. His muscles could be seen flexing as he struggled against the magic that held him. The unicorns that were holding him all had pained expressions on their faces.
“Hurry it up would you?! He’s too strong!” the aura over Glarins left arm disappeared with the unicorn collapsing to the ground. With his arm freed he let loose a roar. Krieger looked unamused
“Launch the Fireballs. I wish to see this filthy animal cooked.” The unicorns up on the balconies charged up their spells and 6 huge fireballs hurled toward the suspended Glarin.
“Spike do something!” Yelled Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Spike just looked around dumbfounded before throwing out his own green fireball. Spikes green fireball collided with one of theirs causing an explosion before it got close enough to Glarin. Glarin had somehow used his free arm to deflect another fireball into a nearby wall. The other four exploded after making contact with him.
The roaring flames filled the massive hallway with an explosion that caused the building to shake. Spike quickly set up a barrier between them and the heat from the flames. Krieger and his group were all behind magical barriers that other unicorns put up to defend themselves. When the explosion ended all of the magical barriers went down and everyone saw Glarin fall to the ground as the auras around him faded.
He landed with a loud crash. The axe he had bound to his left arm fell away as the cloth holding it in place was burned away along with his shirt and hair. His right axe was still clenched in his hand.
“Ahh noo!” Yelled Sweetie Belle as she looked at Glarins smoldering form and blackened skin.
“They killed him!” wailed Apple Bloom as the small flames in what was left of his beard died.
“You two, stay inside the barrier...” Spike inhaled a deep breath and released a huge torrent of green smoke. Half went around Sweetie and Bloom turning into a solid green box to keep them safe. The other half became a huge jagged blade that appeared in his hands.
“W-what are you gonna do!?” Spike exhaled green flame from his nostrils in anger.
“Something I should of done a long time ago!” With that Spike inhaled again and released and huge torrent of green arrows at the ponies.
They erected shields to protect themselves, but not all ponies have the same magical power. As the arrows hit the shield spells a few of them cracked and broke letting the ponies and griffins behind them becoming nothing more than pin cushions.
Krieger watched as the purple dragon began tearing through his men. He hadn’t seen many dragons in his day, but he knew for a fact fireballs would do nothing to them. After all, Dragons had such fire resistant scales they could bathe in lava. From experience however, he knew they weren’t lighting proof.
“You five up on the Balcony! Prepare some Lighting bolts and fry this Giant Lizard!” The unicorns began to charge up their horns as Spike was tearing through the ponies and griffins on the ground floor. Krieger took to the air to avoid being hit by Spike as he rampaged across the room.
Spiked looked up to the balcony at the sound of crackling and arcing electricity. Spike inhaled and released a large ball of green flames in their direction in hopes of stopping their spell. He noticed a moment too late as his ball of green flames was met halfway by a huge bolt of electricity.
The massive five cast lighting bolt tore though Spikes fireball and began to electrify him. The barrier he had set up for Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom began to turn back into a gas and fade away as Spike was losing consciousness.
With a roar of defiance Spike was able to keep the green armor around them from disappearing as he fell to his claws and knees with ragged breathes. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom ran over to try and help him.
“S-Spike come on! W-we gotta go!” Sweetie was on the verge of tears as she tried to help Spike stand
“Get up Spike! We gotta get home!” Apple Bloom was also nudging Spike
“Just go, escape while you can...”Apple Bloom had put herself underneath Spike in an attempt to carry him
“I’ll drag you out if I have too!” Krieger landed next to them and made a little cooing noise
“How touching. Why is almost brings a tear to my eye. But sadly I tire of you all now. Besides, I don’t think letting any of you live would make my men happy. Well, perhaps you mares can live with the others in our basement.” Krieger gently stroked his claw on Sweetie Belles face. Everyone went wide eyed at the sound of metal hitting tile.
“I. SAID. DON’T. BLOODY TOUCH THEM!” Glarin was standing with a staggered stance and using his right axe to help keep him on his feet.
“Hes alive? Hes Alive?! Why is he Alive!?” yelled Krieger as he took his claw off Sweetie Belle.
“I’LL GUT THE LOT OF YA!”
“You’ll kill us?! You can hardly stand! Let alone fight! Fry this monkey using some lighting bolt’s like you did the dragon!” Glarin looked over at Spike and saw he looked battered and beaten with many of his scales looking like they had been melted. Before the unicorns could get the spell off, he threw his head back and roared into the air.
Rage activated; Fury engaged.
As he finished roaring the unicorns had finished channeling their spells and released the crackling energy at Glarin. He simply held his axe out and all of the lighting seemed to be absorbed into his axe before running around his entire body.
Instead of shouting in agony, he lowered his head and began to growl. The electricity seemed to move across his burned flesh peeling away the black skin and reveling new skin that had a light blue tinge to it. The electricity was arcing between the wounds all over his body and what little hair he had left was standing on end.
“GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT!” As he finished his sentence he roared and out flew multiple bolts of lighting from his mouth that arced between the gang members frying all the ponies and griffins, except Krieger who had flown up into the air.
Krieger looked around and saw that most of his gang had been decimated by that attack. Somehow that monkey was able to throw the lighting back at them! With a screech he dive bombed at Glarin.
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Celestia and Luna were outside the ponyville Library with a small battalion of solar and lunar guards. They were waiting for Twilight to gather her friends. In hopes of arriving on time to help make sure the four of them got back safely from Las Pegasus. Twilight teleported in front of the library with all of her friends.
“Gather around everypony, I will teleport us all to Las Pegasus. According to Spikes letter they got into some trouble with one of the local gangs. This is just the chance we’ve been needing to lock them up for good and start cleaning out that town.” Everypony gathered around Celestia and after a brief moment her horn gave off a tremendous light and they all teleported to a park within Las Pegasus.
“Rarity, what hotel were they staying at?”
“The Sheltered Mare Princess Luna. Oh, I do hope they are all ok.”
“Glarin and Spike went with them. I am sure they are doing just fine Rarity.” said Twilight with a smile on her face.
“Do not let the cities calm exterior fool you Princess Twilight. This city became full with scum and villainy when the griffins migrated over.”
“Well then lets git ourselves to the Sheltered Mare then. Hopefully things aren’t that bad.”
They all began to gallop toward the hotel called the Sheltered Mare as the park wasn’t very far from it. When they showed up near its front door, Glarin came crashing through the glass and into the street landing next to a rather flat looking pony.
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As Krieger dive-bombed, Glarin just got his axe ready to strike when he came within range. What Glarin didn’t expect was to see the griffin make a 90 degree turn mid flight and circle around him before coming into range. Krieger unleashed a flying Griffin kick powered by his wings and backed with his mass. The kick sent Glarin sailing through the lobby and through one of the glass windows. He landed in the middle of the street next to that pony he had thrown out the window earlier.
All of the nearby ponies scattered when they saw Krieger come out of the hotel. Glarin stood up using his axe to hold himself up. Krieger flew up into the air again and looked around, that’s when he saw Princess Celestia and Princess Luna with guards all around them. They were looking at him with disdain.
“Luna grab Mr. Krieger with your magic. I’ll try to help Glarin. Twilight, go into the hotel with your friends and some guards and look for the others.” They all nodded with the girls running off toward the hotel and Luna chargeing up her horn. Her horn soon fizzeled
“Sister I cannot hold him with my magic!” Krieger let out a laugh.
“Did you really think I would walk around unprotected?” he lifted the feathers around his neck up reveling a steel collar. “I’ve been wearing a magic proof collar for the last 3 years because magic is a freighting weapon when you cannot use it yourself.” While Luna was giving Krieg a death Glare Celestia was nearing Glarin.
As she got closer to him she could see that his left hand was missing and he was covered in burns with some areas covered with a blue tinge that seemed to have a blue light skitter across his skin, like electricity on water.
“Glarin, what on Equus happened to...” Glarin spun around swinging his axe in her direction. She backed away and saw that his eyes had glazed over. Was he still fighting on will power and instinct alone?
“HA! The Crazed Rent a guard even turns his weapons upon the Princess!” Glarin was breathing heavily as he turned back to face the direction Krieger was in. Between labered breathes Celestia could hear Glarin speak in his raspy voice.
“Keep safe...” His breathing was becoming even more haggard “...To their sisters...” Glarin began to cough with some electricity leaving his mouth and hitting the floor. Celestia gasped, she had no idea what was happening. But he was surely going to die at this rate if he didn’t receive any healing. Celestia’s horn began to glow and a soft glow illuminated from her horn with a small white ball moving toward him. It slowly made its way until it touched his back and fizzled out. The sound made Glarin turn around and see her horn glowing.
“FOUL DEMON MAGICS!” He broke into a sprint in her direction with his axe above his head. Celestia went wide eyed and took to the air, hovering just out of his reach. He roared up at her and the air above him seemed to swirl with a black mist like it had when he jumped between Luna and the transformed Twilight.
“He has gone Mad Princesses! Let me dispose of him as he made quite the mess in my hotel! For no reason I might add!” Krieger put both of his arms above his head and clasped his claws together forming a point.
He broke into a dive-bomb again as he begun to spin at a rapid pace in Glarins direction. Lunas eyes went wide when she saw what he was doing and yelled out to him.
“Avoid his Drill Claw Sir Glarin!” She also put up a shield spell between him and the griffin.
Kriegers drill claw pierced through the shield causing Luna to fall back. As she was falling she saw as his drill claw also pierced through Glarins chain shirt and into his gut. Luna let out a scream, not only from her shield breaking but also seeing him mortally wounded.
Glarin dropped his axe and looked down at the claws that were in his gut. Krieger was smiling, he had finally killed the pest that had been bugging him and putting a blemish upon his pure and crisp life.
His smile soon faded when Glarin used his right hand to grab one of his feathered arms with the strength to crush rocks and an ear drum shattering roar into his face. He also felt something above him and when he looked up it looked like the sky was getting darker as a black mist seemed to be getting thicker above Glarins head.
Krieger went wide eyed when he saw Glarin raise his left arm and began smashing his face in with the stump.
“RAA!” Glarin kept pummeling his left arm stump into the griffins face until his beak broke and he went limp. Glarin pulled the griffins claws from his gut causing a large amount of blood to splash out with small arcs of electricity dancing around in the hole.
He picked up his axe and headed back toward the hotel.
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So hazy.
So dark.
So cold.
The demons and criminal scum seemed to pour out of the wood work during his fight with that stupid griffin. That griffin turned out to be some kind of shadow demon as he transformed partway through the fight.
But deep down he knew this was the fury induced darkness and that he was losing himself to it slowly. But that didn’t matter, he couldn’t trust anyone in this cursed city. But it was going to be ok, he had his guiding light.
Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Spike were his guiding light within this darkness. He could barely make out their faces and voices anymore. But they were the only light within the surrounding darkness. As long as he protected his guiding light, he wouldn’t completely lose himself within this darkness filled with shadows and demon spawn.
As he began to trudge back toward his light, the only light he could see. He could hear distorted voices coming from around him. When he looked around him he saw two large demon horses floating in the air above him. In hopes of intimidating them he released a terrifying howl as he raised his axe.
They seemed to back off so he made his way back toward the light, only to hear those same distorted voices again. Followed by him being lifted into the air with some kind of black magic. He struggled to break free from it, but his strength seemed to be leaving him. He looked out toward his guiding light and saw that several shadows had encircled them.
His guiding light was in danger! With a blood curdling roar he opened his mouth and began to eat the magic that was holding him.
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“Celestia hold him! I’ll cast a sleep spell to try and calm him! He’s going to die at this rate!” Celestia agreed and held on to him with her magic, lifting him into the air slightly. Lunas horn began glowing as she cast the spell. Only to have it fizzle out.
“Again!” Yelled Luna in anger. Her horn glowed as she recast the spell only to have it fizzle again. “Why is he resisting harmless spells!?” Luna kept trying to cast them as fast as possible, hoping one would take effect putting him to sleep.
“Luna, hurry and try something else! Twilight was right about him draining magic...” Glarin released a blood curdling roar interrupting Celestia. He moved his head out and seemed to grab her magical aura in his mouth.
“W-what is he doing!?” Celestia and Luna watched as he seemed to slurp up the golden aura that was holding him in place. Not wanting him to leave fearing that he might die, she fed more magic into her spell to keep him held in place. Her magical power was quickly being drained as he was eating it faster than she could pump more into the spell.
Celestia gave up trying to keep the spell up and let him finish eating the golden magic. The hole in his belly had been filling with a golden glow as he ate her magic until it looked like he had a beacon of light on his stomach. When he landed on the floor he threw his head back and his arms out wide releasing another shout as a golden glow enveloped his body filling in all the spaces where he was missing flesh. The blood stopped pouring from the large hole in his gut and his skin with the blue tinge was replaced with a golden version. He turned his attention toward the hotel and broke into a sprint.
He charged through the open hole in the wall and saw a mass of shadows that seemed to be circling around his light.
Two solar guards approached Glarin as he ran inside, ready to greet him and tend to any wounds he might have.
“FOUL SHADOW DEMONS!” The guards looked at Glarin in fear as he yelled and swung his axe at them. One of the guards had his helmet knocked off as the axe grazed the top of his helmet. On reflex the other guard jabbed his spear at Glarins face.
Glarin turned his head and the spear went though his cheeks without knocking any teeth out. Before the guard could retract his spear Glarin clenched down onto the spear with his teeth and wreched it from the arms of the pony and punched him in the face with his left arm.
The main six and the rest of the solar guard all looked at Glarin in horror. He had golden spots all over his body with the biggest concentration being in his belly. Spike had recovered enough to understand what was happening.
“Everypony! Back away from Glarin NOW!” Not wanting to question Spike all of the guards backed off as far as they possibly could. The main six however, stayed where they were next to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom trying to comfort them.
“Twilight! All of you, I said back up!”
“W-whats wrong with him?!” Twilight saw his glazed over look and the golden glow that covered him. Celestia and Luna flew in and hovered in the air above him
“He can’t recognize any of us! He thinks us demons!” Twilight looked frantic at hearing that.
“Was he consumed by his fury?!” Spike stood up and walked toward Glarin.
“Not entirely, hes been protecting us the entire time...” As Spike got closer to Glarin, he seemed to visibly calm. But when he looked over at Sweetie who was being held by Rarity and Bloom who was being held by Applejack. He tensed up once again, running in their direction.
“DON’T TOUCH MY LIGHT! YOU FOUL SHADOWS!” Rarity and Applejack went wide eyed with Sweetie and Bloom breaking out of their sisters hold to intercept him. Remembering what he had said the day before while they played that board game.
Glarin stopped running when they started coming toward him. He visibly calmed again and looked around him, growling at all of the surrounding ponies.
“Glarin! You can stop now, were safe. Our sisters are here! Everything’s going to be ok now!” Glarin looked at Sweetie Belle, his breathing was extremely haggard.
“Ssafe...?” He looked around himself again settleing his eyes on Apple Bloom.
“Yeah, were safe now. My sis is here now. You’re done fighting. You can rest.” Glarin set his axe down head first on the floor and began to lean on it.
“Safe, sister...” He turned to look at Spike who nodded at him.
“You kept your promise Glarin. Calm down and let them help you now!” Glarin began to wobble a bit as he looked around the room again.
“Promise, kept...” The golden glow that was enveloping his body began to dissipate “...safe, sisters...” As the golden glow disappeared blood began to flow from all of the spots that had once been golden.
The golden glow seemed to be holding him together. As his rage subsided the magic and energy he had taken faded away. When the last of the magical aura disappeared into the air Glarin fell to the floor on his back with blood oozing from all of his wounds.
As he lay on the floor looking up at the ceiling he reached down to his pants and pulled out his flask. When he went to open it with his left hand he looked at the stump where his hand used to be.
"oh yeah..."He passed out dropping the flask next to him unopened.