//------------------------------// // Chapter 12: Final Battle (Part 3) // Story: Equestria Wars Episode XI: Attack of the Vines // by sonicdash123 //------------------------------// Charming Thunder and Danny got into their battle stance as their medallions began to glow and markings began to appear on them. "Admit it Twivine, you are outmatched here!" Charming Thunder shouted. "That's what you think," Twivine said. Suddenly, a white appeared and Charming Thunder and Danny covered their eyes. When the light disappeared, they see Twivine was in her own Rainbow Power form. "Now we are even." "Be careful, she is even stronger than before," Danny advised. Charming Thunder nodded and they summoned their sabers. Twivine smirked and suddenly, she had her own sword, Deathcalibur. Danny has never seen a sword like that one before but from the power from it, it could take on one of the sabers on equal ground. They charged at each other and they clashed blades, holding their ground. They then separated and Danny charged at Twivine first. Him and Twivine clashed and Charming Thunder went to attack from the side. Twivine pushed Danny back and reflected Charming Thunder's attack. "We aren’t getting anywhere with swords," Twivine said. "So how about our hooves and magic?" "Sounds good enough," Charming Thunder replied. "Alright," Danny replied. Charming Thunder and Danny puts away their weapons as Twivine did the same. Charming Thunder began to fire some magic bolts at her, but Twivine blocks them with a shield spell. She took to the sky and began to fire dark magic bolts at us. Danny took off after her, dodging the dark magic bolts while Charming was pulling back to avoid the attacks. He then made it to Twivine and she was a bit surprised to see him in front of her so fast and dodging her attacks. His left hoof began to glow and he went to punch her. Twivine tried to block it with a shield spell, but he shattered it and she was sent diving into the water in a few seconds. Twivine surfaced from the water and did a large dark magic blast, pushing them back. Danny's eyes turned icy blue then fired an ice eye beams at her. Twivine took to the sky and the water turned to solid ice. Charming Thunder was grateful that he didn’t get frozen. Danny and Twivine began to fight in the air, clashing blow-to-blow. He soon got her and pushed themselves to the ice. They landed on the ice with a soft landing. He pinned Twivine to the ground and she was struggling as he held her down. "Can’t run now, can you?" He was then shocked when Twivine smirked and then kissed him. He pulled back and Twivine got up then he wiped his mouth. "Did she really-" Charming Thunder asked shocked. "Yes! I’m married, Twivine! You know that!!" "I know, but I have to give my family love," Twivine said. "Family!?" Danny and Charming Thunder shouted. "Yes, my dark magic is a complete match to King Sombra and my DNA combine with Twilight made me Nightmare Moon’s daughter. I’m technically your sister, Danny." Danny's mouth opened, gaping about this fact. Indeed, her magic matched Sombra’s dark magic, but he never knew that he had a sister. "I thought Luna would have told you, but I guess she didn’t know either, so there is that. But never the less, I am your sister." She came close to him and Charming Thunder and used her tail and brushed it against Danny's chin. And I want to make my family feel loved." She came up to him and their faces were few inches away from each other. "Can you protect me, brother?" "Danny, you don’t believe this, right?" Charming Thunder asked. Charming Thunder didn’t notice that Twivine’s horn lit up faintly. She began to chant a spell in a whisper. "From another to me, that is where your allegiance will now be, you thought your old commander loved you like pie when all they wanted was for you to die. With me all shall be great, there shall be no hate." The spell hits Danny and then he remained still. After a few seconds, he and had an angry expression to Charming Thunder. He then turned and him away and sent Charming Thunder crashing into a rock wall but he recovered. He looks at him as he stepped forward and opened his wings with his right wing protecting Twivine. "I won’t let you hurt my sister, brother," Danny shouted. "I’ll kill you before you dare use your elements against her!" "Danny, this isn’t you!" Charming Thunder shouted. Danny charged at Charming, but before he could hit him, his ghost sense went off and he pulled back as an Ecto-energy ball hit between them. He skids back to Twivine. At that moment, we see Phantom landing in front of Charming, wearing no armor of the sort. Charming Thunder and Twivine gasped at his appearance. Danny and Phantom's medallions sudenlly began to glow. "I should have guessed you would use a Loyalty Spell on your own brother, Twivine," Phantom said. "That is so low of you." "So, you know the spell," Twivine replied impressed. "I’m aware of it because Mephiles invented them!" "Mephiles?" Charming Thunder asked. "Mephiles the Dark, he is a powerful and evil spirit that once walked the land of Equestria. He spread dark magic, necromancer, etc. He invented the dark spells. As a matter of fact, Sombra learned under Mephiles!" "Our father learned under Mephiles!?" "Yes, but he didn’t know. Mephiles was the first and original dark lord. His legacy still scars the land of Equestria and his passed some of his knowledge to Sombra." "Is there a way to save Danny?" "Yes, but you must have a high level of friendship with Danny. You have to remind Danny of who he is. Only through his will can the Loyalty Spell break." Charming nodded and then took to the fight to Danny as Phantom fought Twivine. Danny and Charming Thunder clashed blow-to-blow, not giving up ground. They were at it, blocking each of their attacks like it was all for nothing. Charming Thunder fired a lightning spell at him, but Danny grabbed it and made it into a ball before crushing it, destroying the lightning spell. Danny then began to fire Ghost Rays at Charming Thunder, who dodged the attacks. "Danny, remember who you are! Twivine is the enemy here, not me!" "Twivine is my sister!" Danny said. "I will defend her from your tyrant hooves!" He then threw Ecto-Energy Waves at Charming Thunder, but he dodged them, barely. Charming Thunder began to pick up some rocks and threw them at Danny. Danny then used his Aural Projection to push the rocks away from him then glared at Charming Thunder before he fired his Flashing Energy Ball at him. It went off, blinding Charming Thunder. Taking this to Danny's favor, he charged at him and began to punch and kick him. After a bit of a beat down, Charming was severally injured and he managed to regain his sight. He could hardly move and Danny looked down at him. "Please, Danny. Y-you don’t want to do this." "You’re time is up, Charming." Three clones of Danny appeared around Charming Thunder. "You never had a chance against me, even if you tried." "So be it then," Charming Thunder whispered darkly as he began to change and transformed into his Wirewolf form. Danny was taken back to see it and Charming Thunder roared before killing his other clones. Danny managed to back off and looked at him. "Impressive." Danny smirked before he began to shake. A bright light suddenly appeared and he began to change. His wings began to change; they changed into Giant Vampire Wings. His ears remained the same though. A sharp horn appeared on his forehead and his element appeared around his neck. When the light dimmed, he transformed into a vampony alicorn. "But not good enough." His horn lit up and Charming’s entire body was wrapped around in a blue aura, similar to Luna’s aura. Danny then threw him into the rock wall. Then, he began to channel his magic to his horn. Blue lightning began to crackle around after a few seconds. He then aimed his horn at Charming Thunder as he shouted with anger. "You’re going straight to Tartarus." He then fired a series of dark magic spears and bolts at Charming Thunder, damaging him even further. When it was done, Danny began to charge more magic to his horn. "Death Spear!!" He launched the Death Spear at Charming, creating a massive explosion. When the smoke cleared, Charming was back to normal but all bloody and beaten. Danny was then panting a bit then chuckled at the beaten unicorn. Like I said; Impressive but not good enough. What makes you think you can beat me? I defeated all of my ghost mentors and even my Sith masters. I have even sparred with my Aunt Celestia and Mother at the same time and defeated them! What, by any chance, would make you think you could defeat me!?" "That’s enough, Danny Eclipse," a female voice said. Danny turned around as Charming Thunder looked as well to see an alicorn mare. She had a solid white coat with a flowing red mane and tail with an ink jar and a quill for a cutie mark. "Who are you supposed to be?" "I am LaurFa, Queen of all queens and I am the Alicorn Goddess. I am stronger than your royal family." "Ah, so you are Goddess LaurFa. I have heard much about you from Clockwork, your husband." Charming Thunder's mouth gaped opened while LaurFa nodded, confirming the statement. "Yes, me and Clockwork are a couple. But for now, I’m telling you to stop Danny." "Oh yeah? I like to see you try!" That statement angered LauraFa and she prepared to fire a beam of magic at Danny. He remained in his alicorn form as he prepared his Super Ghost Ray. They both fired their attacks, both collided and at a stalemate. LaurFa began to channel some more magic as Danny did the same. No longer holding back, LaurFa unleashed the entire magic power she had. Danny acted quickly and began to use his other hoof to increase his attack to the max. The attack pushed her shocking her completely. After a few minutes, his attack made an impact against her horn. There was a massive explosion and when the smoke cleared, LaurFa was on the ground, feeling powerless and her entire body being surrounded with green electricity. Danny began to chuckle then broke into evil laughter. "I beat a Goddess!! I am a God now!! No pony can defeat me!!" Before he could do anything else, he sensed something harmonic nearby. He looked at Charming and he had his necklace around his neck with the other elements of harmony around him. He fired the Harmony Rainbow at him and he began to scream in pain. After a few seconds, there was a bright light and Danny found himself on the water. He began to wake up and slowly get up and looked at Charming Thunder. He then rushed over to him to hugged him. "I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I couldn’t control myself! Twivine had me under her spell-" "It’s OK, I forgive you," Charming Thunder replied. "But you really pounded me to a pulp. At least Dusk wasn’t lying you being so powerful." Danny then focused his magic to heal Charming Thunder. Yellow aura surrounded him as all wounds were being healed. After a few minutes, Charming Thunder was fully healed. Danny then helped him up. "Can you still fight?" "I don’t know. I still feel low on magic energy." Before Danny could reply, they heard a mighty clash explosion above them. They see Phantom and Twivine still fighting. Two blurs collided and created a clash explosion. They were exchanging blows against each other. Twivine managed to hold her ground against Phantom until he fired fireball at her, sending her flying down into the water. Phantom landed on the water and both Charming Thunder and Danny came to his side. Twivine came out of the water. She was panting as her power began to exhaust. "You lost Twivine!" "I may have lost, but I still hold my triumphant card," Twivine said. "What do you mean?" Twivine grinned as a bunch of plunder vines came to her and some moved out of the way, revealing Twilight’s head, who was knocked out. They gasped as Charming Thunder was about to charge at her, but was stopped by Danny. "Here's the deal. You let me walk away, no following. In exchange, I return Twilight to you." "I have another idea," Danny said. "Darkbine!" Suddenly, Darkbine appeared in front of Twivine. His left eye was close but his right eye was open, revealing his Eye of Magic. Twivine didn’t understand until she began to see the world around her beginning to morph and alter. Twivine screamed when she saw this. "This is the Eye of Magic," Darkbine explained. "It allows me to see through imposters and allows me to copy any action or etc. I see. However, I can create special illusions in the mind, causing a pony to lose their very insanity." Danny began to use the Elements of Insanity and fired the Insanity Rainbow at Twivine. The rainbow hit her and she began to scream. After a few seconds, the light dimmed and we see Darkbine holding Twilight in his hooves while Twivine had covered her face with her wings. She looked like she was crying. "All that I ever wanted is to have Equestria for myself," Twivine cried. "Is there a reason why I can’t defeat all of you?" Charming stepped up to her and answered, "Yes, Twivine, because Friendship is Magic." "I see that now. If that’s the case, I surrender. Looks like I have nothing to throw at you. I guess I go back to where I came from." "Twivine..." "You know Charming and Danny, I really enjoyed being in this world." "What? But you’re evil." "I know, but if I ever come back, will you be able to reform me?" "I will," Danny replied. "You can count on me." "Not my decision, its Twilight’s." "Oh Fiddlesticks!!" Twivine replied. Charming Thunder began to channel his magic into his horn. "Goodbye, everypony." Twivine began to glow and she went into the Magic Mirror Pool. Danny said his goodbye and him and the others began to walk away, heading back to Ponyville. "Danny?" Charming Thunder said. "Yes, brother?" Danny replied. "Welcome back." Danny chuckled and wrapped his wing around Charming Thunder and nudged him.