//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Hell Has Come // Story: The Man With The Quarter-Staff // by HopeForTheFew //------------------------------// It was impossible, that one man had practically destroyed his whole army with just one attack. The only ones left were the pegusi and the powerful beings like Celestia and Luna, and six strange ponies that were behind the army before it was destroyed. We took out the rest of the pegusi but left all the others for that one lonely man to take care of do to the fact that we knew we could not hurt them with our bullets. So we just stood on the wall, silently praying that our hero would survive this, but in our hearts, we knew he would. "Let's show them girls!" Twilight said as she and her friends gathered together to form the most powerful weapon that their world has ever seen. That one man stood there, waiting for the six ponies to make their move, and they did. The six ponies created a circle and something on their necks began to glow. Whatever those things were on their necks the man did not know. He had defeated the Baffled Kings entire army almost single handed and yet here were six normal ponies who stood in his way from protecting his people. The man sighed and lowered his head, when he raised it a single tear fell from his eye. The man gazed out at the six ponies as they began to float and their eyes turned a bright white. The man raised his staff and said: "God be with me." And he took a battle stance to try and defeat the oncoming threat. A loud 'BANG' could be heard as the six ponies launched a large rainbow colored beam towards that one lonely man. The man charged towards the beam in a vain attempt to stop it. One last tear fell from the mans eye as he was hit by the beam. A loud crackling noise could be heard as everyone and everypony gazed at that one lonely man, slowly turning to stone. He held his staff high as the stone slowly took over his body. In another twenty seconds he was completely covered and not another tear fell from him as he stood there, alone. Discord smiled at the sight. That one man had pretty much destroyed his entire army and yet all he had to do was order the Elements to use their power. And he did, he defeated that powerful being. Discord looked up and noticed a look of shock drawn on all the Humans faces. His smile only grew as he approached the Humans. He was going to have fun today. "Wake up child, you are not broken yet. This world needs a Holy Hallelujah, not a broken one." The mans eyes widened and the stone that imprisoned him began to crack. He pushed with all his might against the stone and the cracks began to grow. Soon enough the stone broke away, and turned to dust beneath the man's feet. "No, I'm not broken yet." He said as he picked up his staff that was lying on the ground beneath him. Discord was near the Humans now, very near. He reached out his hand towards one of the frightened men in an attempt to strangle him to death. But before he could reach the man a loud crackling noise jotted him from the man. Discord turned around and gazed at the cracks that were forming all around the statue of that one lonley man. Discords mouth dropped to the floor in shock and he turned his head back to the Elements. All the while the Humans were cheering for that one mans escape from the stone prison. The Elements nodded to Discord, understanding what he wanted. And so they charged up their power and began to repeat what they just did moments ago. Only this time, that one lonely man had no tears. I watched as those six ponies began to repeat their magic. A scowl grew on my face as I lifted my staff and slammed it into the earth beneath me, creating a loud rumbling noise that shook the earth. Their rainbow beam came towards me once again but I just stood there, that scowl never leaving my face. At the last second I raised my staff and struck the beam, to my satisfaction the beam was obliterated and seemed to turn into billions of small pieces of glass that hit the dirt floor. I looked up at the those ponies who had looks of shock and utter disbelief on their faces, but I simply shook my head. I then turned to discord and jumped up towards him, I slammed my staff on the top of his head, he sped to the ground faster then my eyes could track. I fell soon after him from the sky and landed on my feet into the crater that I had created using Discord. When I landed there was a boat load of smoke and it took some time for it to dissipate, but when it did I saw the unmistakable figure of the being of chaos, he was knocked out from the fall which only led to being more of a convenience. I slowly approached Discord and my staff began to grow a point on the end of it, like a spear. I had reached Discord and I raised my new spear to slam it into the beasts head but before I was able a voice called out from above saying: "WAIT, DONT, PLEASE!" The voice said, but I just shook my head and rammed the spear through the spirit of chaos. When I did this however, a large cloud of black came from Discords body, I did not know what this was, but I did not care, so I just turned around and slowly left the crater. The one who had called out before I killed Discord must have been Celestia seeing as her unconscious body was at the top of the crater. Her body was once again a pure white instead of a dull grey and I knew my mission was complete. My people were cheering for my victory, for our victory, as I walked in the last city of Humanity. The ponies would wake up soon and would want to know what happened. But that would have to wait for another time as I collapsed inside the city and slowly drifted into a welcomed sleep. One last tear fell from my eye before I drifted off, but that one tear, would mean everything.