“Agh!” Cadence ducked as a fireball flew over her. This was just like when she was young and Sean had tried to eat her. But this time he was serious about killing her. Risking a look back her eyes widened as she saw the large figure only a few feet behind. “Oh man, please let the yeti den be nearby."
“Luna, Luna wake up.”
“What?” The blue alicorn slowly opened her eyes. Looking to her right she saw Celestia and Twilight tied to large crystals. Upon
further inspection she found herself to be tied to one as well.
“Oh thank goodness you’re alright,” Celestia said, clear relief in her eyes.
“Where are we?” Luna asked, they seemed to be on some kind of mountain top, the ground was covered in snow. A cool mountain breeze caused the ponies to shiver.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” Celestia attempted to shrug, but her binds restricted the action.
“From what I can tell these crystals seem to absorb magic,” Twilight said, slightly gesturing her head to the stones they were stuck to.
“How can you tell?” Luna asked.
“Try to use a spell.”
“Ok?” Concentrating for a moment Luna attempted to cast a simple teleportation spell. To the princess’s shock her horn merely sparked, yet nothing happened. “Oh.”
“What do we do princess?” Twilight looked to Celestia expectantly.
“We wait.”
“What?” Luna and Twilight looked at her confused.
“I guarantee Sean is coming to save us. All we need to do is bide some time.”
“Fair enough.” Luna nodded. “I doubt he’d let little Twilight here get hurt.”
“Hey!” Twilight looked indignant.
“Oh you don’t know the half of it.” Celestia chuckled. “One time, when Twilight-”
“We don’t need stories!” Twilight shouted, a slight blush on her face.
“Fair enough.” Celestia nodded.
“So, how long until-”
“AH!” Luna was interrupted as a pink blur flew towards them before hiding behind Celestia’s crystal.
“Cadence?” Celestia tried to twist her head back. “Is that you?”
“Hi Aunt Celestia.” Cadence poked her head out a bit. “Glad to see you’re ok.”
“What are you doing dear?”
“Hiding.”
“Why?”
“There is a tiny chance I may have set a plan in motion that snowballed out of control.”
“Cadence.” Luna gave her a stern look. “What did you do?” The question was answered as a roar filled the air before a large figure jumped onto the mountain top. When it landed Cadence squeaked and hid. “Don’t tell me you were dumb enough to wake that thing!” Luna glared at the cowering alicorn.
“I-It seemed like the only way to get him here,” Cadence said quietly. “Don’t let him see me.”
“Cadence.” The dragon said in a slight hiss.
As it came more into view there were some obvious differences from this forms past appearances. The most obvious was the fact that the originally jagged horns had shifted and curved, now resembling a mix between his full form and the original. Its claws seemed longer and it had gained at least a foot in height. An unsettling predatory gleam shown in its eyes.
“Since when can it talk?” Luna asked in shock. She cringed as the dragon rushed past her to get around the crystals. A growl of frustration escaped it as he scanned the area for his prey. Cadence had managed to jump to a cloud while it was distracted and was shivering as she hid.
“Blood.” It came back into view of the bound ponies.
“What?” Celestia looked at him confused.
“Power.” The dragon scanned the area. It was now that the three ponies realized there were no yetis in the area.
“I wonder where they went,” Twilight said as she looked around. As if on cue the ground shook before five yetis pulled themselves onto the mountain top. “Why do I talk?”
“Delicious!” Dragon Sean said with a smile.
Without hesitation he charged at the monsters. As he neared one of the yetis he turned his arms into blades and rammed into the creature. A cry of pain was all the beast got out before a pointed tail stabbed through its throat.
As the body fell over Sean turned his gaze to the others, ducking to avoid one’s fist he charged the yeti before jumping onto its shoulders. Seeming to unhinge his jaw the dragon bit into the monster’s throat. Gurgling in agony the yeti managed to grab Sean and tear him off, slamming the dragon into the ground. The monster then fell, a large chunk of its neck missing. The ponies looked in disgust as they saw Sean eating the portion of yeti throat he had gotten.
“Sean, look out!” Twilight warned as two yetis charged at the snacking dragon.
Sean’s head shot up before turning his left hand into a dragon head and blasting one of them with a blast of fire. To everybody’s surprise the yeti was fully disintegrated. Laughing slightly the dragon dodged the second yeti before pouncing on it. Knocking it to the ground he grabbed the monster’s left wrist and began to pull. Cadence almost threw up as he tore it off, blood spewing everywhere from the wound.
As the cruel smile returned to the dragon’s features he tightened his grip on the severed limb, after a few seconds sparks began to appear around it before the arm had turned into a spear. By now the yeti beneath Sean was dead, spinning around he chucked the spear at the last fleeing yeti. The projectile cleanly piercing the nape of its neck. The monster’s lifeless body fell to the ground.
“Good work Sean.” Celestia’s smile soon vanished as Sean lowered his mouth and bit into the yeti’s shoulder. “Sean!”
Lifting his face the dragon looked over to the bound ponies, a chunk of meat dangled from his blood soaked muzzle. Growling slightly Sean began to lower his face again before a deafening howl filled the air. Then two massive arms gripped the edge of the mountain before the rest of the beast pulled into view. Looking around the alpha growled as it spotted Sean hunched over the mutilated corpse. Standing up the dragon returned the growl.
“Be careful Sean.” Luna warned. “That beast is truly-” Sean cut her off with a roar before charging at the yeti. “That form makes Cadence seem like a tactical genius.”
"Hey!"
As the dragon neared its target the yeti swung its right fist down on him. Sean quickly sidestepped before jumping onto the arm. As the yeti tried to shake him off he began to claw at the limb, blood started to fly from it as the monster frantically shook its arm. Sean continued to hold on, digging deeper in.
Finally the yeti figured out the plan to grab its attacker with one of its other arms. Grabbing the dragon the yeti aggressively slammed him to the ground. Some blood escaped Sean as he made contact. He quickly rolled out of the way as the monster smashed the ground with its three good hands. Sean smirked before blasting the yeti’s left shoulder arm with a fire ball. Shockingly the entire limb was destroyed, leaving only a stub.
Crying out in pain the yeti grabbed the stump, which surprisingly was not bleeding, seeming to have been cauterized. Unfortunately for the monster the shredded arm was still very much bleeding. Sean was currently kneeling on the ground breathing heavily while glaring at his foe. One of his arms seemed to be broken, and he had a large and visible bruise on his back.
“I don’t know if Sean can take much more,” Celestia said with worry. The ponies watched as the yeti growled before running off.
“Wait, did he win?” Luna asked in shock.
“No,” Sean said with a strained hiss. “Prey is healing.”
“That’s not good.”
“Need magic.” Sean then turned to look at the bound ponies, the predatory gleam back in his eyes. Slowly and clumsily approaching them he looked the three over before approaching Twilight. “You will do.”
“What!?” Twilight asked as the dragon grabbed her horn.
“Power!” Twilight the cried out in pain as Sean began to aggressively drain her magic.
“Sean, stop!” Celestia ordered in shock. “You’re hurting her!”
“What!?” The dragon’s eyes suddenly shifted to purple. He then quickly retracted his hand. “Oh Bolas! Twilight are you ok!?” His voice had also lost most of its anger and aggression.
“Look who finally regenerated a pair and returned.” His eyes shifted back to green.
“That’s right.” What seemed to be normal Sean took over again. “Now release my body.”
“For me to do that you need to toughen up and embrace me.”
“Give me my body back!”
“No thanks, I’m quite enjoying my time outside.” He returned his gaze to Twilight. “Now then, let’s finish what we started.
“No!” Sean’s right hand then rushed to his throat.
“Don’t do it you idiot!” The green eyed dragon ordered. Fear seeming to be in his eyes.
“I won’t let you hurt Twilight!” Sean said before slashing across his throat. There was a gurgling before the dragon fell to the ground, blood trickling from the wound.
“Sean!” Celestia shouted.
“Where am I?” I sat up and looked around. All around me there was nothing but blank whiteness. “Am I dead?”
“Why do you resist me?” I looked behind me to see Bolas approaching me. He had shrunk to my size to look me in the eye. “I offer you ultimate power yet you push it away.”
“I’ll be honest.” I sighed. “The power frightens me.” I looked at my hands. “The few times I’ve even used a fraction of your strength I have gone crazy.”
“Fool!” I looked up at a glaring Bolas. “You lose control because you only take a fraction, if you were to fully embrace me that would not happen!”
“But-”
“Perhaps this will help.” Bolas raised a hand and a small portal appeared in front of us. To my surprise it showed Twilight, Luna, and Celestia.
“Guys!”
“They can’t hear you. This is only to show you what their fate will be if you don’t dragon up.”
I watched as the alpha yeti climbed back onto the mountain, it seemed to struggle on account of only using two arms. The previously torn arm was covered in snow and seemed to be healing. The monster looked at my body before moving towards the ponies.
“Get back monster!” Luna glared at it. All the yeti did was growl before grabbing Twilight, it then bit the unicorn in half.
“Twilight!”
“Calm down, this is just a vision.” Bolas rolled his eyes. “But this will become the future unless you embrace my power fully.” I looked back to the portal as the yeti swallowed the rest of Twilight’s corpse. “What will it be boy?”