//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: stones edge // Story: the curse of stone and sight // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// even when shattered and broken, a stones edge is still deadly "LUNA!!!!!!!", Celestia shouted as she rushed to her fallen sisters side and put her head to her chest "Is she okay?" Twilight asked "Yes, but what of vatry?" "I am fine, though getting used to this will be interesting" vatry answered as he stood tall, returned to his normal form "I see that you are awake old friend," a tired but now conscious fang said "Yes and during the day, but what of you, your still recovering from being cursed and being drained of most of your magic" "Im fine, but i think i know a way to defeat the dragons" "How?" "You still got that old obsidian sword you found?" "I think so," vatry said as he search around, "guess not, must have lost it in the fighting." "Here let me try something," fang closed his eyes and soon they heard a small whistle as the sword came and then embedded its self into the ground at vatry's feet "Okay, now we got it, but i doubt that it will hold up too the force dragons can produce" "Obsidian cant, but maybe a mixture of Amazonite and atherium could possibly produce the sword that you desire" "What is amazonite and atherium?" twilight questioned with great curiosity "They are two materials that we thought were lost to the world a long, long time ago, we thought they were all used up during the war against sombra.," celestia answered "Well they weren't because i can sense a few deposits of the atherium miles and miles below, but amazonite is a little further down, i think i may be able to ask the earth to push it up for us." fang hissed out loud "Do it, and hurry, because i doubt the dragons will let this slip by unnoticed" Celestia said With that, fang closed his eyes and began to glow green, calling to the earth requesting that it give up its most sacred resources, soon the earth began to thrum with magic as grass grew on the ground, moss began collecting around the cave mouth, and little sprouts were begging to take root, what seem like ages this went on as the dragons did begin to take notice and began to throw all manner of material they could at the shield hoping it would smash threw it, until one of the more ancient dragons blew magic fire on the boulder he was holding and threw it right at the shield. "EVERY PONY BRACE YOURSELVES," Celestia cried as the ball of magic flame crashed into the shield, and burned right threw it, but at the cost of its immense speed, it just fell flat, but left a big degenerating hole where it had struck "Ow my head, and why is there a big burned hole in our shield Tia?" Luna questioned as she groggily got to her hooves "The dragons figured out that their magic breath can burn away our barriers, damn them." Celestia said, muttering the last part "That's fine, because were are about to get our treasures." fang said with delight as he stopped focusing magic and opened his eyes "That's great, but how are we supposed to even manipulate it, our unicorn alchemists had spent life times trying to figure the stuff out and they only came to the conclusion that atherium cant be manipulated, and amazonite cant be scratched by anything up to and including diamond, its tears threw diamonds with ease." Luna said "My earth magic can mold and manipulate the atherium and amazonite, but i need you two to supply the heat, seeing as im too weak to do both earth and fire magic, once they start getting to the point in which they can be melded, i'll use my magic to forge them together." Fang replied,but no sooner did he finish that statement then a spike made of atherium and a equal spike made of amazonite came out of the ground, but to the dismay of the group, as soon as the atherium came out of the ground, it absorbed the shield, allowing the now flaming boulders to fly freely at them, but as soon as the boulders came close to the atherium, the fire got absorbed into the strange material as well. "BACK INTO THE CAVES" Fang cried, before he picked up the two metals into his mouth and slithered into the deeper recesses of the caves with the others follow right behind. "Okay, now we can get started." Vatry said as they slowed to a stop "Hmm, let me try something first" Fang said as he probed the atherium with his earth magic, but to his surprise, it didn't pull the magic into it like it did the unicorn's and dragon's "Interesting, it seems that it only absorbs physical manifestations of magic, not the immaterial." Twilight speculated as she reached out to touch the atherium with her telekinesis. "Well, lets quit wasting time and start already." Fang said "Okay." replied three voices at once, as fang concentrated on the spikes and began to form them into spheres, then Celestia, Luna, and Twilight began to feed their magics into the two supreme metals, heating them up to a blinding brilliance, and then fang began to start his work, compressing, folding and elongating the now liquid metals as their strengths became shared, their weaknesses, if any forgotten, as the power and force of four magics working together to fold, compress, fold once more, and compress again, then stretch again in a weapon of immense strength and power, eventually the blade was forged, a helix blade, with a single bone of metal going through the center, then the hilt was forged from the crystals in the walls, that no pony or other had noticed, until just then, next came the handle, a beautiful handle crafted from obsidian wrapped around the bottom bone of the blade, with a rare, dark star aquamarine set in the base, flanked by two thunder egg topazes on the edges of the hilt, and one magma ruby set into the center, a blade fit for an emperor who rules perfection, was lowered to the ground, shining with a brilliance that no creature alive in the entirety of the world had witnessed. "Its done." Fang heaved as he slumped down, exhausted from forging the weapon that will soon become a legend Wordlessly, Vatry picked up the weapon, and swung it, with both hands as the sword glided through the air almost as if cutting the very thing air apart, like it was paper, as he held it, the sword shimmered and soon a sheath for it appeared on vatry's back, like as if the sword had claimed its very first master. "..... Wow, this is the most legendary blade I've ever seen, thank you old friend, i will one day pay you back for this," Vatry said as he turned to the princess's, "and thank you for helping forge it, and setting me free from the stone prison during the day, i will surely one day make this up to you as well." "You are very welcome, but perhaps you can repay us by getting us out of this alive, using that magical weapon, using it to vanquish our foes that wait for us outside." Celestia said, but unknown to her, the dragons thought they had lured the group into a false sense of security, as the older dragons, with more control over their fire, breathed their toxic fumes into the cave, filling it with the volatile gasses, wait for the sounds of approaching steps, with the hopes of wiping out, the troublesome group, before they could use the terrible weapon that the dragons, perceive as a way to end all dragons.