//------------------------------// // Shadows of Destiny // Story: Blood of Harmony // by BloodHive1998 //------------------------------// In-front of the six fillies, formed crystals that were shaped a lot like their personalities. Shadow's crystal was a black heart with red vines around it, the crystal suddenly shot to her chest, where it settled and formed into a necklace. From the silver necklace, spread silver, spiked-vine like, lines that wrapped around her vines, wings, and body. A bat shape was outlined on her back (in-between her wing-joints). A pink bat-shaped crystal (basically an exact replica of the element of Kindness) embedded itself in the outline. On her flanks, formed sharp and wicked daggers with the lines spreading around them like sheaths. Finally, the lines spread to her head, where they formed the outline of a Timberwolf's head, only they stayed limited to the size of her head. Much the same occurred for Lunar, just with a blue flame crystal for the center of the necklace, fire-shaped lines around her body, a set of claws instead of daggers, a general outline of her head with horns, and the light-blue balloon that was Pinkie's crystal. Night's had a pink hole-filled heart with erratic lines along her body (including around her horn), a small scythe for a weapon, and a rather insect-like design for her head-piece. The crystal that was embedded in the outline on her back was of the Element of Magic. Night glanced at herself before a small flame started at the tip of her horn (it now had become rainbow colored). The flame was stationary for a moment before spreading rapidly down her horn to the tip of her tail. As the flame passed, her eyes began glowing completely red, a dark magenta carapace spread across her body, her fangs got longer and more frightening, her mane and tail restyled to match a normal Changelings (Or what most saw as a normal Changeling's), and her body lost a lot of its similarities of equines. Night briefly explained that it was a natural battle armor that all Changelings had. Scootaloo's formed a cracked wheel and had the general concept of death; including scar like lines, scythes for weapons, claws, and skeletal shapes over her wings. The crystal in-between her wing joints was Loyalty. A skull design was her head-piece. Whenever Scootaloo shifted her appearance with her Necromancy, the lines would shift to match. Apple Blooms had confusing lines and all, with three claw marks (Matching the claws on her hooves) for the primary crystal and the one in-between her shoulder blades was Honesty. Sweetie's followed a cybernetic theme with a memory chip for the primary crystal. The one in-between her wings (which she had reactivated) was Generosity. The lines changed as she activated and deactivated different features. Unlike the others, Sweetie Belle didn't have any weapons. The main six weren't unaffected either, they all got similar armor with different weapons. Fluttershy and Rarity got wing-blades, Rainbow got a set of claws that doubled as a portable Pegasus Device, Twilight and AJ got claw reinforcements. Everypony looked to Sweetie Belle then. The young android just smiled as her eyes were completely encased in red. heavy-duty-plasma-machine guns, miniature ion cannons, claws, blades, search and destroy drones, and countless other weapons all unfolded from different panels along her body, when she was done, she looked like a walking death machine. If the group didn't know about dimensional displacement fields, then they would have been more shocked. As the group stepped out of the castle, they found non-other than Black Shard. Twilight got down low as she spoke. "Been a long time... mother." The group attacked then. Scootaloo swung her, necromancy infused, scythe with unnatural force, taking off one of the demon's legs for the eighth time. This was soon followed by Pinkie and Lunar with a combination of daggers, claws, and Demon Magic. Following this was two blasts of pure magic from Night and Twilight. After that, Apple Bloom and Apple Jack attacked with their claws, moving swiftly. It took nearly eight minutes for Black Shard to finally stop her movement through the cycle of attacks, at which point she used a powerful Black Magic spell to nearly kill everypony. Sweetie Belle growled as she fired thousands of plasma bolts per second, making sure not to slow down unless necessary. A cry of fear caught her attention though and she quickly left, making sure her team would be safe without her. What Sweetie found though, made her smile. She had nearly hit Diamond Tiara. "Well, if it isn't the worthless organic life-form? I would love to chat, but I have a demon to destroy." was all Sweetie said before returning to the battle, leaving a fearful Diamond and Silver. Scootaloo groaned as she sliced apart a demon that Black Shard had risen. "Remind me again why I'm helping the living?" she asked. "Because I'm you manager and your contract specifically says that you are to protect me and all Rainbow Factory workers at all costs." Rainbow said calmly. Scootaloo nodded as she removed her hoof and turned it into a spike before shoving it into Black Shard's chest. The two Apples were working perfectly together, they would slice from separate sides and then come together for a double punch before returning to their sides. Shadow and Night had teamed up with Twilight and were bringing in a small army from the Everfree. The battle was still strong two hours later. Twilight was now in a head-on battle with Black Shard while the others were working with a pack of Timberwolves to take down the army the shadow demon had risen. Twilight clashed with Black Shard several hundred feet off the ground, the two were both wielding flaming swords made of magic. Scootaloo started forming chain traps with her power, using them to kill off several while the vampires worked to keep everything out of the sky, while also getting several free meals. Soon, the battle was dying down, Black Shard had to stop bringing in minions to conserve energy and the rest left it to Twilight to end the shadow demon. Twilight growled as she began charging all of her magic, she would likely pass out from how much she was going to release. Night flew up and acted as a way-point as Twilight drew on the elements and daughters of Harmony to end it. The magic around her horn became so bright that it vanished from sight (Getting past the color spectrum) while she pulled in all her power, using it slightly to trap Black Shard. After a long moment, she released. The spell exploded, ripping past all of the barriers in the universe and obliterating Black Shard. Twilight fell to the ground, her body disintegrating to reveal the demoness that had used it for so long. She had black scales with sharp claws, her eyes (should they have been open) were the same as Sombra's. Her tail was three thin tails with metallic tips, and she had demon wins and a pair of horns.