//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Children of Harmony vs. Tirek (part 2) // Story: Tirek's Revenge // by darkmage1997 //------------------------------// Once more, Tirek blasted the children, hoping to destroy them, once and for all. When the smoke cleared, he saw that Toby was shielding everyone from the blast, with some help from Nathan, "Thanks Nathan," Toby said. "No problem," Nathan replied, as the others went on the offensive, again. "Try this on for size!" Silver yelled, firing a beam of psychic power at Tirek, who just blocked the attack. "Is that all you got?" Tirek taunted, as he fired at Silver, who teleported away, just in time. "Man, this guys just isn't backing down!" Dusty commented, before an idea popped in his head. He burrowed his way underground, and made his way towards Tirek. Digging around Tirek's hooves, he was able to cause a cave in, which caught Tirek by surprise. "What is the meaning of this?!" Tirek demanded, as he blasted the rocks around him, to try and free himself. As soon as he got onto solid ground, he immediately slipped and fell. Looking around, he saw the ground was turned to ice. "Ha, take that!" Icezer taunted. Tirek continued to try to get on his hooves, but kept slipping. "Alright, that should keep him from firing at us, but how are we going to stop him? Our attacks won't work on him," Silver pondered. "We all have the magic of friendship inside each of us, so maybe if we all combine our power, we can stop him," Kelly thought. "Well, its worth a shot, we've tried everything we could think of," Raiden commented. "Alright, then lets finish this, once and for all!" Josh declared, as everyone gathered their magic together. Tirek saw what they were doing, and knew what would happen, "Not so fast!" he yelled, as he fired another magic blast at the children, causing them to scatter. "We can't do much of anything with Tirek firing at us," Kelly said. "We need to try and chop off his other horn. That ought to keep him from firing at us," Raiden said. "Yeah, but with the ice, he keeps moving," Mavis pointed out. "Uh, guys?" Brian said, pointing at Tirek. He was blasting the ice to smithereens. "Ok, that'll make things a bit harder than we originally wanted," Cory commented, as Tirek fired at the children. Flying around, Nathan soon got an idea, "Hey Dusty, try to cave in the ground around Tirek again. Ah have an idea," Nathan called. "On it!" Dusty said, as he quickly burrowed back into the ground, and made his way towards the centaur again. "Brian! When Dusty gets Tirek to cave in, try to melt the rocks around him again. That should keep him from moving long enough for us to swoop in and chop his other horn off," Nathan explained. "Sure, no problem," Brian said, as the ground under Tirek caved in again. Brian then melted the rock to point of lava, trapping his entire lower body. "Surfer, Icezer, cool off that lava!" Nathan barked. "Ok!" the two said, as they quickly cooled off the lava. "Ha, you maggots think can stop me from preventing your pitiful magic act?" Tirek taunted. "No, not really," Nathan said bluntly. "But, it does give us time to do this!" Raiden yelled, as he took a thunder sword, and sliced off Tirek's other horn. Tirek screamed in agony again. "We did it!" Kelly cheered. "Alright Tirek, any last words?" Chris asked. For a moment, there was nothing but silence, before, to the children's surprise, Tirek laughed evilly. "You miserable worms really think chopping off my horns makes any difference?" Tirek yelled, as he broke out of the stone, and clapped his hand together to form a ball of magic, "I can still use magic, despite not having my horns!" Tirek yelled, as he fired another magic blast at the children. "Oh you've got to be kidding!" Lance complained. "Wait, when he used his horns, the attack was almost instantaneous," Raiden pointed out. "And your point is?" Francisco asked. "When he uses his hands to use magic, it takes a little longer. So, if we're far enough away, we may just be able to use the magic of friendship to stop him!" Raiden explained. The others saw no flaw in this plan. "Alright, I'll teleport us to those mountains over there," Silver said, motioning towards some mountains that were really far away, "That should be enough of a distance to use our finisher," he finalized. "Alright, then I'll transport us all there," Francisco said, opening a portal, and having everyone jump in. Once he was in, the portal closed. Down in Tartarus, Rainbow Dash was becoming impatient, "Why hasn't anybody stopped that jerk?!" she snarled. "Simmer down Rainbow, Tirek has the magic of all four Princesses, so Ah don't think there's anyone gutsy enough ta even try to stop him," Applejack replied. Just then, Discord lifted his head, and a look of astonishment. "What is it Discord?" Celestia asked. "Its Tirek. I can still sense what goes on up there. He's in a battle with someone, infused with the magic of friendship," Discord replied. "Really, can you tell who it is?" Fluttershy asked. "Its our children," Discord bluntly replied. Everyone gasped. "My baby's fighting that monster?!" Sarah demanded, getting in Discord's face. "Calm yourself, I can sense that they currently have the edge in the battle," Discord replied. "How so?" Twilight asked. "They've chopped off both of Tirek's horns, but something's troubling me," Discord said. "And what is that?" Luna asked. "Well, without those horns, Tirek shouldn't be able to use anymore magic, but I can sense he's still using magic against them," Discord replied. "But, they'll be alright, right?" Ashley asked. "I'm sure they will be, because they have the protection of the magic of friendship. That's how Twilight and friends stopped him before," Discord replied.