//------------------------------// // Siege of Canterlot // Story: Death vs Harmony // by The Zebra Hybrid //------------------------------// Canterlot; Royal Castle The doors to the throne room exploded shards of wood shattering in every direction as Tirek and Samael marched in and to be greeted by Celestia with a scowl on her face and in a battle stance, horn charged with magic ready for anything the two would throw at her. The two stopped a few yards from Celestia with mischievous grins on their faces. "Celestia, your city has fallen, your guards are either imprisoned or dead, and the rider and your sister are nowhere to be found." announced Samael as Celestia's horn shone brighter by the second, "I'll give you one chance to live, kneel before me and tell me where these so called 'Elements' are." "You can threaten me all you want dark one, but you will never find the Elements as long there is somepony to rise up against you." Celestia snapped. "Who said anything about threats." smirked Tirek as he charged Celestia who instantly dodged the attack only to be smacked by Samael and slam in the opposite wall. Celestia recovered from the hit and flared her wings and took off towards the duo she charged up her horn sending a yellow beam at the two. Samael reflected the beam and caught Celestia with his dark magic and slammed her on the ground until she was unconscious. He then summoned rusty old chains from the floor causing them to wrap around Celestia, binding her of her magic and her movements. "Tirek find these Elements, while I have some fun with our host." ordered Samael. "Yes father." answered Tirek turning away. "I want them alive son." "Of course you do." grunted Tirek as he walked out the throne room. Samael then turned his attention to bound princess in front of him, and gave a mischievous grin and smacked her across the face waking her from consciousness. Celestia squirmed in the chains, but the only thing to occur was them getting tighter and tighter, she let out a painful scream as she felt her bones being crushed. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." said Samael snapping Celestia from her thoughts, "Those change are magically bound the more you struggle the tighter they get, and if they get too tight..heh heh....I think you know what happens." said Samael as his demonic hand glowed with orange and red energy making the chains squeeze tighter around Celestia, making her scream in pain again as blood now trickled down her sides. Samael chuckled and loosened chains a little bit not wanting to waste all his fun in one go. "Now here is how it's going to go you tell me everything you know, or I'll kill every last pony in this wretched realm." stated Samael "H-how d-do I know y-you won't kill them a-anyways if I t-told you." Celestia managed to spat out. "I might a demon but when a deal is made I tend to keep it." "But d-demons always l-lie and m-mislead others into w-what they w-want." "Perhaps, but enough of this talk let's get this started." said Samael as he stood over the sun goddess causing a shadow to loom over her as the halls of the castle are filled with her screams of pain and suffering. Under Royal Castle; Crystal Mines The six were treading through the mines under the castle, hearing the thunderous booms from above, assuming it was the demons causing havoc throughout the streets of Canterlot. Twilight felt guilty, she should've stayed behind with Celestia, and there was no way she could take on Tirek and Samael alone. A lone tear trickled down Twilight's face as she letting a sniff until Rarity snapped her from her thoughts. "Can we take a break? We've been walking for hours and it’s messing up my hooficure." whined Rarity as Applejack rolled her eyes. "Canterlot is bein' attacked and destroyed by demons and the only thang ya' worried about is ya' hooficure, and by the way we've only been walking for thirty minutes!" snapped Applejack. "Well you try getting your hooves done only for them to be ruined next day!" "We don't have time for pretty hooves! We have ta get out of this here predicament." Rarity stuck her tongue out at Applejack. The group carried on through the mines trying to ignore the tremors from above. "Is it me or are those shakes getting louder?" asked Rainbow as the group stopped, and noticed that Rainbow was right the tremors were getting louder. "Hey guys it's raining dirt!" yelled Pinkie as dirt and shards of crystal fell from the ceiling the group looked up in horror as they saw a demonic claw burst out the ceiling. The demon burst through the ceiling and let out a piercing roar. "I found them! They're underground!" yelled the demon as more demons burst through the ceiling. "Run!" yelled Twilight as the six sprinted through the mines of crystal, the demons right on their tails. A explosion came from the ceiling again but much louder this time Twilight looked back to see Tirek glaring/smiling at them. "Samael wants them alive. Don't disappoint." commanded Samael to a demon who simply nodded and went to pursue the six. "i want to go home!" cried Fluttershy as another roar from the demons came behind the group. The six turned another corner and found themselves facing a mine cart. "Everypony in!" yelled Twilight as they all hopped in the cart and rode along the tracks. "Ha! We lost them!" chanted Rainbow with victory. "Ya might want ta look behind us Rainbow." said Applejack as Rainbow looked behind the cart to see the demons flying after them. "Oh come on!" One of the demons caught up and latched himself on to the speeding cart, only to get bucked in the face by Applejack. The demon sprawled on the ground unconscious as the demon hoard kept flying after the six. Twilight charged up her horn and started firing blasts of magic hitting every demon that was coming after them. "There's too many of them!" yelled Twilight in terror as she spotted a shadowed figure on the track. "Who's that?" said Pinkie pointing at the figure. Twilight looked closer to see the figure rise to his four hooves and raised one of its massive bulky arms. "Tirek!!" the six screamed as Tirek slammed his fist into the side of the cart making the six fly out the cart and slam to the ground. Twilight's vision was blurry she saw her friends unconscious being carried by demons. "Lord Tirek, what are your orders?" she heard a demon ask. "Keep them alive, my father has special plans for them." answered Tirek as he walked up to Twilight and lifted her up by the throat. "Not so powerful without your friends are you?" Tirek cocked his fist back and brought towards Twilight knocking her out and flinging her on her shoulder. Crystal Empire: Throne room "This is terrible, we must help my auntie at once!" said Cadence, "but we can't just launch a full out attack if my aunt is still alive along with the elements they would probably be captive." "Who cares if they are captive, the four of us barge in, kill those two bastards and-ack!" chocked Strife as Death grabbed him by the throat and pinned him to the wall. "We are not doing that." whispered Death "What's your problem! I thought you didn't care about these ponies." "I didn't but that's changed." said Death as he glanced at Luna. Strife followed Death and groaned. "It's her isn't it?" Death stayed silent and let go of Strife who dropped to the ground clutching his throat and glared daggers at Death. Luna then walked up to Death and wrapped her forelegs around his waist. "Thanks." Luna whispered as Death nodded. "So I assume we sneak into Canterlot and rescue these elements and sun goddess-" trailed Fury. "Then we pay Samael and his son a little visit." finished War. "What are we gonna do about this Lillith person?" asked Discord sipping on a glass of chocolate milk. "Me and Tia will take care of her." said Luna. The doors to the throne room then opened and brought everyone’s attention to Shining Armor in his purple armor and stood next to his wife. "Once the rescue is complete we my husband Shining Armor will lead a full assault on Canterlot driving out these invaders." explained Cadence as the group gave a nod in agreement. "We will start the mission tomorrow morning so it's best for all of you to get some rest." said Shining Armor as the six left the throne room leaving Cadence and Shining alone. They both stood in silence until Cadence started to cry Shining held his wife tight. "Don't worry sweetie I'm sure their fine." cooed Shining Armor as Cadence cried on her husband’s chest. Canterlot Dungeon Twilight opened her eyes as the cold dark stone floor made her body flinch from the cold. She tried to get up but cringed as a hoof gently forced her back down. She focused on the pony in front of her and noticed it was Fluttershy with a relieving and worried look on her face. "You need to lay down Twilight." said Fluttershy as she put a blanket over Twilight. "F-Fluttershy where are we?" Twilight asked in pain. "We’re, in the Canterlot dungeon." "Where are the others? Should they be in here with us as well?" asked Twilight looking around nervously. "I don't know," whispered Fluttershy as tears started to well up in her eyes, "When they captured us, they took us to different places." Twilight enraged sat up quickly and concentrated her magic on the cell door and blast it apart, but the only thing that came out of her horn was fizzles of magic. She tried again and concentrated even harder but to no avail. Before Fluttershy can protest as she was trying to charge up her magic again a low voice came from the hallway. "There is no use for that my little pony." said Samael as he appeared in front of the cell door. Fluttershy quickly hid behind Twilight as she failed to shoot another blast of magic, "If you have noticed there is an enchanted ring on your horn that is preventing you for doing you little magic." "Where is my friends and what have you done with Celestia!" screamed Twilight "Your friends are still alive, for now." "Why keep us alive? You know we are the only ones that can stop you." "Yes, together you can stop me, that's why I split you up in the first place." "But why are you letting us live you could kill one of us and we'll be powerless," Twilight thought for the conclusion until it finally hit her and her eyes went wide in shock, "Unless we're bait." Samael chuckled to himself in humor, "I see why you're the smart one. It seems that not only the rider Death and the moon goddess has escaped, but they managed to kill Crowfather and the other three riders are here plus some damned creature that acts like he is the creator himself. " growled Samael in anger, "But no matter, if my predictions are correct the riders are stronger together like you and your friends, so when they come here they'll have to split up and rescue you and you other little brats and I'l take them out of this realm one by one." Twilight slumped back in fear and sadness feeling helpless as she noticed Fluttershy was whimpering behind her, tears slid down her cheeks as she asked one more question to the demon king. "What about Celestia where is she? You never mentioned anything about her." "Oh I wouldn't worry about her." "W-W-Why not?" asked Twilight not wanting to know the answer. Samael smiled and turned her back to her. "Because Celestia is dead." Samael said bluntly as he laughed and disappeared from Twilight's and Fluttershy's sight leaving the two crying and holding each other in comfort.