War was a foreign concept for ponies. And yet here I was in the front line of what will probably be the second most important war in the history of the multiverse.
I cringed as I saw my family at my side. I tried really hard to convince them to not come but when it come to save Equestria and more there no way to convince them to stay away. I'm sure they can handle the mecenaries but I hope they won't attack a elite.
But ponies weren't the only ones to fight. The two remaining Elder Gods were there along with many soldiers and heroes from across the multiverse. Some of them looked out of place like those two plumbers in red and green clothes or that photographer that won't stop saying 'I've covered wars you know.'
But who am I to judge? I'm just a model for my aunt.
Harmony then took the spot to talk. ''We wished that the war ended three thousands year ago unfortunately some gods can have grudge for a very long time. I'm sorry that we had to drag this new generation into this war. But as your creators we will make sure that we lose the less mortals lifes possible in this battle. That is why me and Author will be in the frontline. We will clear as many soldiers as we can before the proper battle begin you don't come before our signal understood?''
The crowd roar with a ''Sir, yes sir!''
And with that the two Elders left us alone. We waited a few minutes with a tense silence that you could cut with a knife. The silence was interupted by a static sensation and a few sounds of electricity before a bolt of lightning hit the ground a few meters away from the group.
When the bolt vanished a familiar white wolf appeared before us. The ones who had weapon in the group immediatly point it at him. He only smirked smugly in response.
''I'm not here to pick a fight with all of you. Don't provoke me or wou might lose more men than you're willing to lose. I'm just here for miss Winter Song.''
The ones who didn't know about me search around to try to guess who I was while every Equestrian in the group turned slowly to me.
''Took you long enough.'' I replied with a confident voice. ''Let's go somewhere else for our fight.''
Before I could go however my mom took my hoof and shook her head at me. ''Winter what are you doing you will get kill if you go alone! Don't you remember when your father duel Time Skip alone?''
I tried to not wince when she compared me to my father. But unfortunately she's right I'm doing the same foolish thing of not relying on friendship to fight evil. But even still I could not drag the ponies I love into this, the loss of Golden Pie was arleady too painful for me I don't know what I would do if I lose anypony else.
''As long as your safe I don't care what happen to me.'' I pulled my hoof out of her grasp and followed the captain of the Reapers. I could feel the astoniched look of the soldiers in the group. I couldn't blame them, from their point of view a god powerful enough to wipe out an entire city in a matter of minutes just asked to a normal teenage filly a one on one duel to the death.
''The two Elders are attacking your organisation right now and you lose your time fighting me?'' I asked him casually. It's weird I should be angry right now he's a Soul Reapers the only reason I should speak to him is to insult him. Yet I feel calm I still want to kill him but it's not anger that guide me anymore only the desire to make a safe world for mom and Meek Sky.
''Gaia has the power of Editor now. It will take more than Harmony and Author to stop her now.'' Infinitus responded as if he was speaking to an old friend.
'Winter you have come far since the time Fluttershy found you in those woods. This is the time to repay her for her kindness. She deserve better than to live in a world govern by them.'
I nodded my head and created a spike of ice in my hoof. Infinitus turned around at the sound of my spell. He smirked in response. ''So we're doing it here huh? Fine by me.''
In a instant his body was engulfed in electric energy and then it's began to shring along with his body. When the lightning disappeared there was no giant white wolf. Instead there was a regular sized black wolf smirking at me.
''Last time you beat me with my brute force, let see if you can beat me when I have lightning's speed.''
I threw my spike of ice at him. He disappeared so fast from the spot he was in that the only evidence he was ever there was the trail of smoke he left in his wake. Before I could even create another spell I felt two paws hitting me in the back followed by two other hits to my face.
I stopped creating spells immediatly. He tried to hit me again but passed throught me when my body transform into water. Buck! I can't turn into water when I'm casting a spell! I will have to be careful of when I attack and when I defend.
Infinitus tried to hit me multiple times with no result. But I was unprepared when he decided to stop just in front of me and released a bolt of lightning.
Being made of water it electrocuted every parts of my body. But surprisingly it didn't kill me
'It look like this is the exact opposite of last transformation. He's quicker but he's also more weak.' Roxanne said in my head. 'You need to watch his movement carefully. He's hard to hit but if you hit him at the speed he is going with something solid he should be knock out in one shot.'
He's a god are you sure we can really knock him out that easily?
'Gods have poweful souls with almost no limits of power and can create new bodies infinitely even without memories. But being knock out is a weakness of the body not of the soul and I can assure you the gods do not have more powerful bodies than us.'
Fine then I will try to knock him out but what will I do after that? Even if I kill him he will only come back again.
'When you have beat him I will help you with that part.'
Right knocking him out sound easy on paper but how will I do it? He's smart enough to see I prepare something I need him to think I'm vulnerable so I can surprise him at the last second.
Here a good time as any to try this new idea I had in mind for a while. I slammed my hooves on the ground and produce four giant cube of ice. I concentrated and soon the cube took the form of me. I could unfortunately not make them look like real breathing ponies but at least I could order them around like some sort of ice golems.
''Catch that wolf!'' Unsurprisingly the golems didn't last very long against Infinitus making my spell almost a waste of magic if it wasn't for the thing Infinitus did the with the last one.
Infinitus jumped in the air and pushed the golem right at me with his fours paws. The golem exploded in shard as it made contact with me and I was sent crashing on the ground. Without Infinitus noticing I created a baseball bat made of ice and hid it behind my back while I was laying on the ground.
Infinitus thinking I was completely defenseless while on the ground charge at me. Like Roxanne sugest I carefuly oberve him. I had difficulty seeing him but I could see a cloud of dust coming in my way. When the dust was close enough I lift myself up and swung the bat as hard as I could.
I cringe as I heard the cracking bones as the bat connected with the wolf's muzzle. ''Is it really over? I thought it would be a super long battle like in these neightphon anime.''
'Winter this is real life not a anime. Beside you would never have enough magic to fight that long.'
''So what do I do now?'' I asked Roxanne.
'Normally only angels are taught this technique, I think you need to learn it. But you must promise to never use it on a mortal or a good god. I will teach you how to split a soul.'
''Splitting a soul?! Like when Author was split in the Shards of Life? Isn't it cruel to do that? He will be stuck as a vegetable for eternity if we do that.''
'No that a just a rumor invented by the ones that really hated tyrants gods. He wil find a new body but he will have lost most of his power he won't be a threat anymore. Well unless he find the other parts of his soul of course. But that why we will keep the not concious parts of his spark in security.'
''...Ok how do we do it?''
'It's easy really, the only reasons it's not widely know is because the ones that find out how are sworn to secrecy. You just need to put a part of yout magic in his spark. Once it's done you split your magic inside the spark in parts and the pieces of spark should follow it thinking the magic is a guide to a new body.'
How many parts should we make?
'Make four parts like that if he find another part it he won't have all his power immediatly.'
I create a spike of ice and quickly stab him in the heart. I saw his spark leaving his body from his mouth and quickly did what Roxanne told me to do. When the four parts were made I noticed that one them was glowing more than the others.
'Release the glowing one it's his consciousness. We will have to think of good place to hide the other parts.'
I released the glowing one and it quickly flew away from us.
''It's strange when I killed the mercenaries or Titiritero I felt like justice was made. But for some reason I feel bad doing that to Infinitus.''
'You saw the other Reapers only as monsters that took something precious from you. But Infinitus even if he was evil beyond a doubt had some reasons to do what he did. If only he tried to change the world for the best instead of for the worst we could have been allied.'
We were interupted by a magic explosion in the distance that shook the ground.
'You know we did our job. We warned the council and took care of the captain of the Soul Reapers. We could take our family back home and let the others take care of the rest.'
''Do you really think it's possible to get them away from all this? You know them they will never give up until evil as been dealt with.''
'...Sigh you are right but you should only attack if necessary you won't be able to stay conscious much longer with all the magic you arleady spent.'
And with that instead of running away from the explosion like any sane ponies. We flew right in it's direction eagerly preparing for the next battle.