//------------------------------// // Dawn of the Darkness // Story: The Empress of Flame // by Pathious //------------------------------// Princess Cadence was walking with her beloved husband Shinning Armor. It was quite a lovely day for the Crystal Empire. "Honey, I have a funny story I should tell you." Cadence giggled. "Oh really what might that be, I'm always for a good story." Shinning Armor said with a chuckle. "Ok so yesterday I was watering the garden when a delightful little filly crystal pony came to me. She looked at me and then to my stomach. The little filly looked at me with confusion in her little cerulean eyes and said. Why is your stomach so big." Cadence giggles. "So I looked at the little one and said, Well that's because I have a baby." Cadence began to try and hold back laughing hard. "Then she looked at me with wide eyes and asked why I had eaten a baby" Shinning Armor began to laugh when some of his guards ran past him. Shinning raised a brow at the speed they were moving. That's when a bright orange light in the sky caught his eye. "What is....that?" Shinning quickly wandered to the closest balcony. Shinning tried to look closer. "Run cadence run~!" Shinning doubled back from the ledge as the ball of orange light was heading right for him. He ran and grabbed his pregnant wife. Cadence couldn't move very fast so when the ball of what now was obviously fire hit the balcony they were thrown to the ground by the wave of energy that came from the hit. Dust and smoke began to fill the hallways near the impact. "Shinning I can hardly......breath~!" Cadence yelled out. "Cadence where are you I cant see you!?" Shinning yelled in question as a cyan light started to shine through the darkness. Shinning looked towards the light squinting in the dusty darkness. He was now able to make out to cyan halos that appeared to be eyes. "What is that!?" HE yelled out as he saw the outline of large bat like wings begin to spread. The wings flapped and the dust all went flying out of the area. A large wave of dark energy came with it. Shinning cover his eyes with his foreleg. He slowly uncovered his eyes to become face to face with the Empress of Flame. "Hia sweetheart~!" she said laughing slightly. Shinning looked at the demon before him, he looked closely and he could tell this was Sunset Shimmer. "Sunset Shimmer what happened to you!?" Shinning scooted back. Cadence now coughing behind him. The halo like eyes of empress slowly shifted to look at cadence. Empresses eyes slowly turned completely cyan as she could see the growing baby inside of Cadence. Empress slowly made her way towards Cadence. Shinning took this as a threat towards his wife. His horn began to glow brightly as he sent a blast of magic directly into the back of Empresses back. Empress was sent face first into the ground. She let out a growls as she lay on the ground. "What a mistake you just made!" she laughed out loud as her horn began to glow in a bubbly mix of black and Cyan blue. She slowly stood up getting into a fighting stance. Shinning Armor quickly got into his fighting stance as six guards joined his side three on each side. They had their long spears at ready, their horns all glowing a rather similar color to one another's. dust and gravel was starting to rotate around Empress as she waited for one of them to be stupid enough to actually make a move. That's when she took the opportunity to use a spell she had used before in the past. Her Mane flickered violently as her eyes began to swirl. Cyan halos appeared over the heads of Shinning's backup. the halos quickly contracted into the heads of those guards. The one to his right that was closets to Shinning quickly swung his spear at him. Shinning saw this and quickly used his magic to draw his sword. Shinning's swords quickly blocked the swing as another guard tried thrusting his spear into Shinning's back. Shinning Armor used his right hoof on the spear being thrust at him. He knocking it to the ground. and roundhouse kicked it into the wall. He now faced the guard who had attempted to stab him in the back. Shinning went to attack the guard who's spear was now stuck in the wall. Just as Shinning went for the attack the base bar of the spear of the other guard who had swung at him first, went in front of his neck close lining him. Shinning fell to the ground coughing spastically. He quickly caught his breath to roll away from a spear that was being thrust at shinning face. Cadence watched rather helplessly as her husband was being assaulted by his own stallions. She had no choice but to try and do something about it. Maybe her love based magic could do something to help. Shinning quickly got up onto his hooves again and used his magic to swing his sword at one of the Stallions attacking him. He caught the front leg of the stallion making it harder for him to stand. He didn't' want o kill his own men but he might have to. That's when all five that could walk just fine charged at shinning. Shinning's horn glowed slightly as he pressed the edge of his own blade to his own nose. He teleported away from them causing them all to accidentally stab each other. Shinning went to face Empress who now was walking in a battle circle with Cadence. Cadence had her horn glowing with a very light cornflower blue color. "you leave my husband alone." Cadence growls at Empress. "Cadence, STOP YOU CAN'T FIGHT HER~!" Shinning could feel the dark powers radiating off of Empress. "You should have listened to your hubby~!" Empresses hooves glowed in a cyan blue aura as Cadence began to float up into the air. "Don't worry sweetheart Your baby will be just fine~!" she laughs as she tosses Cadence directly at her husband. "Now watch your world burn~!" Empress reared up onto her rear hooves. dust and rock revolving around her fast. She slammed her front hooves back onto the ground cracks formed around her hooves. The cracks started to expand in front of her. Black and blue flames spewing out of them. Empress flapped her wings and a wave of blue cyan energy went flying out far into the distance. "your kingdom belongs to me now, you will not resist you will obey." her eyes swirl and cyan halos form around both of their heads. The halos contract into them controlling them. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Discord squirms feeling the magic. "Oooooooooooooooooo~ that can't be good." he scratched his back. "The whole not wanting her at the Crystal Empire, we may be tooooo, LATE~!" "Then we have to go, there isn'T much......" Twilights words were cut off with the white wing of celestia. "Twilight we can not rush into this. Discord was able to sense that power which only indicates she is very powerful." Celestia says with a stern look on her face. "Ooooh come we took on dipcord!" Rainbow yells out. "We can take her on, apparently our alternate sleves did in that other world!" "She makes a REALLY good point~!" Pinkie yells out as well in an attempt to back Rainbow Dash up. "Girls Celestia is right." Twilight sighs. "We cant rush into this." "Which is why we will be sending in discord." Celestia says as her wings flare open in anger towards the thought of her ex student Sunset. "Wait me~" Discord floats over towards Celestia. "Oh the honor it would be to help in such dire situations" He smiles chaotically. "so when do i head off?" "We can't go till we are sure of her exact plan and location, she could move fast at any moment now that she has wings." Celestia snorts hot air in anger. "When the time comes, consider it done." he grins