A horrible place. A place that no man, alive or dead, would want to go. The Netherworld. There's no way I could lighten the mood of this situation. I was stuck in what's pretty much hell, with a hole through my stomach, and the man I'm fighting is getting stronger every second he stays here. It seems he's realized the situation too, as he seems to lay back in his chair. He's not even trying.
Scorpion looks at me again and seemed to motion for me to sit down. "No," I said, "Why should I do anything you say. You don't intimidate me." The confidence in my voice betraying my actual emotion.
"I don't think I will ever be as stupid as you. Because I am sure that you fear me. You just don't know that you do."
I look at him again, I knew that I couldn't beat him. The battle was hopeless. I let my head drop. A dark thought rose in my head. One that I knew was not my own. It was a thought of murderous intent. The darkness was attempting to overwhelm me. I knew that I had to resist. But even I didn't have the strength. Suddenly a different feeling poured into my chest. A nice warmth that was destroying the darkness. Of course, I forgot about Plan B. I smirked as confidence filled my heart again. Lifting my head up, Scorpion noticed the smirk on my face. It seemed to take him by surprise.
"There's no reason to give up." I spoke, my voice carried through the large chamber, "Not when I know that I can depend on my friends to come through." A warmness spread throughout my whole body as I felt the strange magic work. Light emitted from my hands, surging around my body. I swore I even saw a rainbow light appear on my hand. Scorpion seemed to be taken back, "I bet you weren't expecting this." I jumped at him, prepared to fight by any means necessary.
The Fight For Life Part 2
Scorpion
It was impossible. He should be dead, not fighting. Yet here Ryu stood clearly deflecting and countering every strike I made against him. I pulled out my single sword again swinging it at his head. He was able to catch it with his hand. Clamping down on the sword, cracks made their way down to the hilt of the sword. Ryu twisted his hand and the sword broke apart into thousands of pieces. I backed up trying to escape from whatever this monster was.
Ryu looked at me and smirked. This ignited anger inside myself. I was not going to be a fool. I am stronger than he ever could become. My fists ignite in fire and I run at him. I swing out my left fist at him, he dodges under it and punches me in the jaw. He keeps punching me in the jaw. Using both of his fists. Finally I knee him in the jaw while he was punching me. As his head flies up I jump over him, grab his head, pull it over myself, and throw him into the ground. I pull out a huge axe. One that looks similar to an Ono. I take the axe and swing down on the center of his chest. The axe digs itself deep into his chest. Blood seeping out of the wound. He smirks grabs the axe, jumps up into the air and flings it back at me.
I get flung back a distance but keep on my feet. I grab the axe and dislodge it from my head. The axe has clear digns of blood on it and I take the blood and smear my hand with it. My hand ignites in fire again, and I watch as the blood and fire mix to give my hand a blood red fire coming off of it. I walk up to him and he seems to know what I'm doing. I take the fire and trow it out towards him. A fiery kunai at the end of it. I smirk knowing how much it will hurt him.
Ryu
Nice try Scorpion. You really thought I would fall for that again? I side step the kunai and, faster than a normal human would be able to see, sever the fire from the kunai. I grab onto the fire, figuring out that he had sent out a rope, and had let the fire catch onto the rope. Scorpion looks like he's trying to pull back the rope, but it's a futile attempt. I give it a light tug, making him nearly fall over right away. Then I pull hard on the rope and swing it to the left. Scorpion flies through the air, still unable to unlatch the rope from his wrist. I wing him around myself, one, two, three time before finally letting go as I watch him fly into a wall.
He gets sent back almost immediately towards me. I jump up and kick him. But as soon as I do that I start to also twist my body. My other foot comes around to kick him again. I keep the movement going and keep kicking him repeatedly. The final kick I land on the center of his chest, sending him back into the wall, where he fell against the floor with a thud. I smirk, but it quickly turns into confusion as I see him get up.
Scorpion
Oh no. You are not going to beat me this easily. I get up and instantly charge him. Instead of punching like normal I take off my mask, flip over him. And breath out a steady stream of fire. He attempts to block the incoming fire, but is obviously unable to prevent most of the fire from hitting him. I take out my longsword and swing it out at his arm. Watching as the fabric splits apart and blood flies upward. I plunge the sword into his shoulder, reach my foot upward positioning it on the hilt and kick downwards. Sending the sword all the way through his arm.
Ryu stumbles back and I send out three kunai on ropes that catch him in his other arm. I pull him over and punch him down into the ground. Then I kick my foot down to send him tumbling over the ground, before finally stopping him by sending out my last sword into his other arm. Pinning him into the ground.
I walk over slowly, making myself as intimidating as possible. My foot positioned on Ryu's chest I grab onto his head and press down with my foot until I hear a crack, followed by a grunt of pain from him. With my hands still on his head I pull up while pressing down with my foot. Ryu's screams echoing through the chamber, only wanting me to continue further.
Suddenly a bright flash of light from behind me and a force of air pushes me off Ryu. I look up to see... no... how is that possible?
Ryu
I breath in as much air as I can. Suddenly feeling winded after what seemed like an hour long fight. I looked up, and find myself surprised to see a familiar face. Bowser. He carried with him a small bag. Bowser walked over to me and quickly pulled out both swords, before giving me the bag. I look inside to find a small, blue colored, pebble shaped object.
"Your supposed to crush it in your hands." Bowser says to me. After pushing my hands together I manage to break the object, and instantly feel the pain subside and my wounds start to fade. Twilight must have created the object. I look up to Bowser, "What are you doing here?" I ask him.
"What do you think?" He says, "I'm here to help you with this fight, and from the looks of it, you need my help."
Scorpion stands up from where he had fallen back to. "Don't think that even with both of you here you stand a chance against me." He runs at the both of us, but is instantly picked up by Bowser. Bowser holds him up for a second before throwing him into the same wall. Where a large blood splatter had started to appear. Scorpion screamed in frustration and started to kick his foot into the ground. Cracks appeared outwards from his hits. When the cracks ended lava started to spew outward from those cracks. Bowser looked at me before taking a deep breath and releasing a torrent of fire towards Scorpion. Scorpion appeared to catch it and throw it back to Bowser, who seemed to shrug it off as though it were a gust of wind. Bowser started to run forward, Scorpion fired fire from his hands in an attempt to slow Bowser down, but Bowser kept running through each of the blasts finally picking Scorpion up again and slamming him into the ground.
I ran over to the fight just as Scorpion was standing up. I punched him square in the back, sending him forward a few feet, before he stopped still on the ground. He stood up slowly again before yelling, "ENOUGH!" His whole body ignited with a fiery explosion and he ran at me. Punching me rapidly. Bowser started to run towards me to help, but Scorpion jumped up on Bowser and flipped him over before throwing him on the ground. Scorpion picked me up by my shirt and dragged me over to a huge hole. I could see at the bottom of it there was lava. He looked at me with a now insane look evident on his fake face through the mask. "You know, I have a friend who looks exactly like you. You'd think I'd feel bad about doing this, but I don't. Not one bit. In fact, Ryan can go fuck himself."
I couldn't believe what I had just heard. I looked up at him, "Shane?"
He looked taken back, and his grip seemed to loosen, before he suddenly grew very angry, "I've come too far to be stopped now. Not even you can stop me." But it looked like he couldn't do it. The angry red look in his eyes was now replaced with a calming green color. He threw me away from the pit. His hands covered his face, but as he slowly lifted them away blood red eyes stared back. "I don't care, I'll kill anyone who tries to stop me."
Bowser charged him from the side and he flew upwards before bouncing off of the ground and landing on his back. Bowser looked at me and I felt a force come from my hand. I looked at it as a rainbow light covered my hand completely. I finally figured out that it was trying to get to Bowser. I threw out my hand as the rainbow light fully covered Bowser.
When it had all but disappeared what stood there did not look like how Bowser normally looked. It stood similar to Bowser but appeared to be triple the size of what Bowser was. It had huge horns jutting out of it's head and held a brighter color than what would be expected. This legendary monster could only be Giga Bowser. Giga Bowser looked over at Scorpion before he charged. Swiping at Scorpion to send him flying into the opposite end of the chamber. Giga Bowser jumped over to him sending his back first to crush Scorpion. He finally started to drag Scorpion and held him in front of his mouth. He blew out a scorching blue fire that engulfed Scorpion. Before throwing Scorpion into the hole. Where as he fell he screamed out one final sentence, "I WILL HAVE MY REVEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNGGGGGEEEEEE!"
Finally after all the fighting Scorpion had finally been defeated. Bowser looked over at me before suddenly noticing a magenta light coming from his chest. He grabbed onto me quickly and I felt the familiar sense of magic take me into unconsciousness.
Ryu
I opened my eyes to see a cave illuminated with a light blue light. All around me different ponies and creatures sat. Over to the right of where I was laying I saw four of the six members of the Mane Six. They appeared to be talking about various things. I saw to the left of me sat Bowser, currently being treated by Fluttershy. Who had a stern look on her face as she appeared to be scolding the Koopa King for something. Sitting myself up I saw in front of me, the Tree of Harmony with Twilight Sparkle, Princess Luna, and... and... Garret?
I didn't care at this moment about the still noticeable healing hole in my chest, or the fact that I had a broken leg. I ran at my friend. A person I thought I would never meet face to face. Garret looked over in my direction surprised at me up, before recognition lighted up on his face. Along with a smile. We reached each other and stood in front of one another, before I finally leaned forward and hugged him. "It's been a long time, Garret." I said.
"It really has, Ryan." He replied finally breaking the hug with a smile still on his face, "Although I wish we were meeting under better circumstances."
Twilight looked between me and Garret before saying, "You know him?"
"Yep, known him for nearly five years. Couldn't ask for a better friend." I respond.
"We were just talking about what we were to do next. You two are the only members of your species. With you being a new species it will be a while before you get the same rights as Ponies, so you two will need a place to stay."
"The only two people now." I muttered darkly, Garret the only person to hear me mutter.
Princess Luna finally added into the conversation, "We were thinking that... Garret, would stay in Canterlot with me, while you could stay in Ponyville with Princess Twilight. After all you have developed quite the relationship with the ponies in that town."
Garret who had been content to just listen to the conversation finally added in, "But first, I want to know how and what you did."
I was able to answer part of the question, "Me and Twilight came up with a plan before we confronted Scorpion. She would gather the Elements of Harmony and take them to the Tree of Harmony. Then she would help me to subdue Scorpion so we could take him to the tree and zap him, or whatever. Unfortunately the plan failed when I was teleported to the Netherworld. Luckily I had thought of a plan B for the situation, she had given me a magical charm, that could teleport me back to her. So we could prepare for when he returned. Although, it didn't work quite how I expected. I'm not entirely sure what happened after that though."
"I can answer from there," Twilight intervened, "After the e=teleportation didn't work I noticed that it still had a magical connection to the charm. So I gathered magic from the Tree of Harmony and sent it through the charm, to help him in the battle. We wanted to make sure he could pull through though, so we sent Bowser through the same connection, with a stronger charm, and a healing pebble," I knew it was a pebble, "After waiting for some time I decided to yank you through the stone. That happened one hour ago now."
Wow one hour. "So," Princess Luna looked at me, "What happened to Scorpion? Bowser refuses to tell us what happened."
I looked down before responding, "He's... gone. For good." Twilight looked at me in shock, Luna in some form of sympathy, and Garret a look of understanding. I suspected he thought that it was for the better.
"But that doesn't matter anymore," I spoke, "Because from now on Equestria will be free from any other evils that could harm it. That I'm sure of." If I knew that those would be my last words I would have chosen something a bit less ironic. I felt a terrible pain from my throat. Looking down I realized it was a sword. A sword that had had it's pieces cobbled together. My eyes shot open in horror, as the world went dark and the sword pulled out, I turned around to see, a skeleton standing there. His words were the last thing I would ever want to hear from him, "I win" And I closed my eyes.