The group of ponies who had just arrived circled around him, running to the beaten princess. While the purple alicorn (Which Noir guessed her being the leader of that team) talked to Celestia the others stayed on guard, keeping an harsh eye on him. He did the same minus the harsh glare. The avatar of darkness kept his smug smile while he studied their looks.
The unicorn one had a white coat and a purple mane which was curled into what Noir could guess it was a elegant style, her azure eyes stared at his fur and hair with revulsion, probably disgusted by how messy they were. Even by the almost 32 feet away he could smell the amount of deodorant she had upon and was surprised how none of the ponies in the group weren’t killed by that smell.
The two Pegasi were the complete opposite of each other. One had a soft shade of pink for her long mane who used to cover herself, scared by just looking at him and even more frightened once she noticed he staring at her . I don’t want to know how scare she’s going to be if I ever want to terrorize her. For not talking about my real looks thought Noir. The other Pegasi were just impossible to go unnoticed thanks to her mane, which looked like a rainbow. The colors were even more noticeable thanks to her cyan fur. She was not scared in the least and stared down the black unicorn, staring him down in a pathetic attempt to scare him, she reminds me of someone I know he thought, his memories going back to his own world and universe, but then he shoved those thoughts away, you will have all the time to miss your world when this story will be over he reminded himself. He moved his stare to the two earth ponies. One had an orange fur and a blond mane which was curled into an hair style he had saw on some dwarves or even elves. How was it called? Horse tail? I feel there is a joke here… but it’s WAY too much obvious for me or other to laugh at it pondered Noir as he turned his attention to the other earth pony but not before of giving a curious glare to the hat of the orange horse. The other pony was… pink. She had a pink which reminded him of Fluttershy mane as a coat while her mane was of a slightly red shade of pink. He could feel an aura around her, chaotic and random, it looks like Discord is not the only one with some chaos inside of him, even if she has just a tiny hint of it. I can expect a lot of weird stuff from her thoughts the avatar of darkness.
Finally done talking to Celestia the leader of the group took back her position in the center of the group.
“How does Princess sun flank doing?” Noir asked, with a sly grin. His nickname got the result he had hoped for as every single member of the Mane 6 (as he had decided to call it) gasped towards that insult.
“How dare you call Princess Celestia like that, you monster!” shouted the white unicorn.
“I dare because I can… and also because she has a damn sun painted on her butt”.
“Why you ugly!” shouted the cyan Pegasi making to rush at the unicorn, only to be grabbed by the magic of the lavender alicorn.
“Don’t be reckless, Rainbow Dash, that pony has just defeated Celestia with easy. You can’t beat him alone!” said the pony.
“Rainbow Dash, eh? Is that your name, hot head? Quite fitting, I got to say” he admitted, yeah, she totally remind me of her… although Yol would never do something as foolish as letting her emotions take such control over her and make her rush alone towards a far more powerful enemy. For not talking about this pony lack of fire power thought Noir. “Well, one out of six. Mind present yourself?”. The group exchanged some slightly confused stares, in the end the pony with the hat made the honors.
“I’m Applejack” then she pointed to the white unicorn, “She’s Rarity” to the pinkie one, “Pinkie Pie” to the shy Pegasi, “Fluttershy” and then to the alicorn “And she’s Twilight Sparkle”.
“You forgot to mention that she’s a princess!” pointed out the pink pony. The lavender pony made to say something but she got interrupted by the dark unicorn.
“What? You’re a princess too?” asked Noir, surprised, “How many princesses there are in this country?”.
“4” answered Pinkie Pie, almost as if she was a student who wanted to answer to her teacher.
“I regret even asking that question” grumbled the avatar of darkness, frowning at the idea of this world having four princess. Why there wasn’t any king, queen or emperor!? What, did those titles sounded too much evil for them?
“We’re not here for talking about me or others being princesses. We’re here because we noticed the fight between you and Princess Celestia and now I know why you two were fighting. We will not let you get to bring Nightmare Moon back!” said Twilight Sparkle.
“Who’s that? Ah, you’re talking about her dark side, aren’t you? Well you don’t have to worry about it, my plans are different”.
“And you expect us to believe you? You’re the Avatar of Darkness!”.
“Indeed I am. So? Does that makes me evil?”.
“I don’t know really” admitted Twilight, taken slightly aback from that question, “But we can’t allow you to put a friend of ours in danger!”.
“Fine then. If it is a fight you want who am I to come refuse it” commented the Avatar of Darkness, shrugging his back.
“You don’t know what you’re going against” said suddenly Fluttershy, “We possess the most powerful magic in the world. For you own good you should leave”.
“Oh really… and how is this magic called?” asked Noir with an hint of interest.
“The magic of Harmony and Friendship”.
Noir stared at the group with blank expressions for some long seconds. Then this happened:
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The Mane 6 stared at him with surprise as the dark pony laughed and cackled. Ezio just stood still staring at the group with an enigmatic expression. Be that because he had no idea what was going on or because he didn’t even started to consider the group as a threat to him or his pal.
Once Noir finished laughing he turned to the Mane 6 with the best composed face he could, “You serious?”.
“Yes we are!” replied Rarity, with fierce determination.
“Yeah! You’re not going to laugh for long once we will done with you!” added Rainbow Dash, “Come on Twilight, let’s show him what are we made of!”.
Twilight just stood there, staring at the black unicorn with uncertainty. A part of her was contrite at the idea of unleashing the power of Harmony against Noir. Sure, he had fought and defeated her teacher, but in the end he wasn’t going to finish her off. On the other hand she just couldn’t trust somepony who was a complete stranger and the Avatar Of Darkness. She shoved those thoughts aside, ready to unleash the power of her team.
Noir made sign to Ezio to move, just to be safe. The rave complied and flew over to safety. The dragon in disguise looked curiously as the Mane 6 flew up on the sky while they get surrounded by a warm glow. The light grew of intensity and then, in a flash of radiance, the group changed their looks. The wings of the ones who had them grow slightly more. But the most visible change was the fact that what they called Cutie Marks now covered a good portion of their bodies. Celestia watched the scene as a miracle was taking place in front of her and felt the warm feeling of hope that everything was going to be alright.
Noir? He was like this:
He just couldn’t believe what his senses were telling him and was way too much surprised to laugh at that absurd sight. The Mane 6 unloaded on the Avatar of Darkness a ray made of shining rainbows which completely enveloped him.
Noir could feel the power of Harmony all around him, disturbing his disguise. Interesting thought the Avatar of Darkness, studying the weird forces surrounding him, it appears that the power of Harmony is a force made of positive feelings which purge things from their evil intents. If someone or something is completely devoted to evil it will either make it powerless, be that by its destruction or by sealing him away, depending from what the intent of the wielders of this power wants. This is the same power that healed Princess Luna from the Nightmare Moon status Noir noticed, this is a power of light and so that explains why it disturbs my masquerade. I am a creature of darkness AND the Avatar of Darkness, but, for how much of a jerk I am I’m not evil. Probably if I would be evil then this Harmony may have done something more to me but that’s just a theory pondered the Avatar of Darkness. Then a sudden realization struck him, creeping him out, this power could be used to wash the brains of any single being with the least of evil in him, turning him or her into another person completely. Whenever or not I will fulfill my objective here I will do better to keep an eye on this ponies… and on Sun Flank . Concluded his reflection he decided to react. And he decided to do so with style… dragon style.
“It’s just me or is he taking this very well?” made notice Rarity.
“Yeah, we didn’t even heard a NOOOOOOO or a IT CANNOT BE or a AAAARGH!” added Pinkie Pie.
“What do you think, Twilight? Did we got him?” asked Applejack, unsure.
“I could guarantee that we did” said Twilight, “I don’t get what” she made to add, but then stopped as she and the others, Celestia included, noticed that there was something going on inside the rainbow vortex. Something dark started to rise from it. It grow more and more, releasing its own kind of dark-purple aura. Then it happened. Not in a flash, but in a explosion which shattered the rainbow as if it was made of fragile glass. Arcane forces got unleashed and suddenly, right in front of their faces, stood a dragon which scales were as black as the blackest night, with fangs, horns and claws of a steely grey. And then his eyes went on their levels, before narrowing them as a slasher smile graced his features. Celestia froze in fear, staring at the big dragon who couldn’t be anything more than Noir true looks. But as great was the fear that the ruler of Equestria felt it wasn’t nothing compared to what the Mane 6 were feeling. They looked at the dragon in fear not only because of his looks, but because he had just tanked the most powerful magic in Equestria and swapped aside as if it was nothing. And that for Twilight it was horrible. Not even in her wildest nightmares she had seen this scene went down. “No… it can’t be” she muttered, too much taken aback to speak.
“Oh yes, my little pony” replied maliciously Noir, his voice deeper than when he was a pony, “It’s totally happening”.
With that said he opened his mouth as dark-purple flames started to pop up from the deep of his throat, just for then rush out fast enough to prevent the Mane 6 to do anything more than rise their defenses, slow enough to make them see what was about to hit them. The group of ponies screamed in pain as the mystic fire strike down the magic shield that had formed around them as a ball, casting it to the ground. There went a short pause, as if Noir was checking out how long they would last, then he breath fire again. The magic barrier shattered, knocking the group to the ground.
“No!” cried Celestia, fearing for her students and friends life and mind-boggled at the defeat of the power of Harmony.
The dragon stood still, towering over the group who was laying on the ground, staring at them with an inscrutable expression. The ponies slowly managed to get up a little but were not yet capable to stand. To the Mane 6 surprise they didn’t felt much of the pain there were expecting to feel, for the most part they were just exhausted.
“Are you alright girls?” asked Twilight, checking them out.
“Eh, I could feel better, but I could feel worst” admitted Applejack.
“Ugh, did somepony took the plaque of that train who just run us over?” asked Rainbow Dash meekly while keeping her heads in her hooves.
“I’m fine” said Fluttershy.
“I’ll survive” said with her usual chirpiness Pinkie.
“Speak for yourself!” shouted Rarity, “Have you seen how dirty my mane is!? This is the… worst…possible thing ever!”.
“I think the mane problem is not our main problem right now” pointed out commented Twilight, who turned her attention to the dragon, who was now staring at them with an amused grin. The Mane 6 glared at the dragon, some with fear, some in awe, some in hatred. What else they could do? He had just mopped the floor with them without breaking a sweat. If the power of Harmony could not stop him then what could? And each member of the team felt angered to have failed to stop the Avatar of Darkness. Probably now he was going to mock them for their failure before deal the final blow. But Noir managed to shock them once again.
“I have to admit that, for how much ridiculous your super powered looks were and of how silly is the idea of being struck down by a rainbow, that power of Harmony was quite something” commented the dragon, managing to surprise the Mane 6. They sure didn’t expect their adversary to compliment on the power who until now hadn’t done nothing but disrespect them and Celestia, “It would probably have blasted me aside… if I had been some of those idiots who claims to be avatar, overlords etc of darkness” he continued, while glaring a little to the small ponies, “But I’m not. I am different from that kind of pathetic vermin’s. And now, if you ponies have finished shooting at me with colorful lasers” he had just completed that line that somepony shoot at him another ray right at his back. His response was to frown at it, before turning around to see the responsible for such act.
“DON’T YOU DARE HURT MY FRIENDS!” screamed the new arrived alicorn. Noir smile got back up, although this time was less evil and more for of the happy kind. At last he had found the princess of the night.