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// Tonight, We Hunt (Part: 2) 
// Story: Tonight, We Hunt 
// by ShadowFall 
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	Wolf’s final words traveled throughout the Everfree. Fluttershy suddenly gasped as Lamb’s paw fell from her mane and rested on herself as the glow from her mask’s eyes now faded into nothingness, a hollow darkness resting where the glow once was. Her breathing quivered as Kindred now rested together in peace.

She felt so empty within herself now, seeing another of her friends die before her. But what she now felt wasn’t sorrow or sadness. It was resent. Resent for the creature that had the audacity to come to Equestria and slaughter everything it saw. Resent for the murderer of her friends. 

She never thought she would ever hate anypony, but now that changed.

She hated Kha’zix.

She wanted justice.

Fluttershy looked at Rengar, and nodded.

“Let’s go, Rengar.”, she readied herself by taking the fallen captain’s solid crystal sword.

“Stay close and keep all eyes and ears open.”, Rengar and Fluttershy then sprinted off towards the location of Kha’zix’s rampage.

The two said their goodbyes to the passed Kindred, then rushed off into the forest where danger beyond their darkest nightmares awaited for them.

        Now, the trail to find Kha’zix had become more and more apparent. It was evident that he was growing rapidly in power from consuming everything along the outskirts of the Everfree forest. On his trail, Rengar and Fluttershy rushed towards the direction of the slaughtered animals and beasts, taking heed of the darkening clouds resting overhead.

        From all of the chaos that had resonated in the past few weeks, Rengar felt at ease all of a sudden. He was hunting. The hunt gave a sort of calm and focus within him that he hadn’t felt in a very long time. His senses were heightened. He felt the thrill once more.

        On the other hoof, Fluttershy realised that she was doing something she’d never thought she’d do. She was hunting, alongside with Rengar, no less. However, she felt a sort of security and harmony when she was with the lion, a creature that she at first took as a murderer of all animals, but was instead a hardened warrior that now fought for justice and the protection of his new home, even if he didn’t realise it yet.

        Then, Rengar felt a raindrop on his mane. Looking up, the clouds gave a rumble of thunder. It is going to rain, and from the looks of it, it is going to rain quite a bit.

        Then, as they ran, Fluttershy asked something.

        “Do you think we’ll stop Kha’zix?”

        Rengar didn’t look at Fluttershy. He knew his opinion in the matter, but at this point, saying it was the last thing he wanted. Instead, he turned his head and nodded.

        “We will stop him. One way-”, Rengar then shot out his wrist-mounted blades, “- or another.”

        They kept running towards the destination where Kha’zix had to be. Then, Rengar spoke up this time.

        “You’re not afraid.”

        Fluttershy looked back at him and spoke, the crystal sword giving a bit of a muffle to her mouth, but her words were still clear nonetheless.

        “How can you tell?”

        Rengar looked ahead and gave his answer.

        “Because I was once afraid. I was young. I didn’t think when I attacked him. It costed me my eye, and I lived in fear of him ever since.”, Rengar gave a heavy exhale.

“What? You were afraid?”, Fluttershy asked.

“Yes. No matter how much I speak of claiming Kha’zix’s head for a trophy, I have always        feared him to this day. I was afraid that he would come back and finish what I started. I was afraid that no matter how much I hunted, he would always be stronger than me.”, Rengar admitted, “But you, you are selfless. You are doing this for the future of your friends and home. I don’t have much of those things on my own.”

Then, Fluttershy spoke up.

“You have a home. Here, and your own world. As for friends… you can start with me.”

Rengar looked over at Fluttershy and gave a light smile.

“Than maybe I’m not afraid anymore…”
Then, Fluttershy stepped on something peculiar. It made a slight crunching sound, similar if you were to step on a dried leaf. However, it also felt crunchy in the sense of an eggshell, with sharp edges around. She took her hoof up and looked at the tiny piece that dug into it. It was purple, and it still felt warm.

“Rengar… is this part of Kha’zix…?”, Fluttershy showed him the piece. Rengar looked down at the object with his eye, inspected it for a second, and suddenly grew pale in shock.

“Rengar? Are you okay?”, Fluttershy asked.

Rengar shook his head, took his knife, and pointed it into the forest.

“He’s going to trigger another evolution! If we allow him to adapt any more beyond this power, we’ll have no chance at stopping this monster!”

They ran. They ran as fast as they could through the darkness of the forest. The clouds billowed overhead, desperate to pour rain down upon the forest. 

The trail of tiny pieces of what looked to be part of Kha’zix’s exoskeleton gave his direction of travel away.

“The more he evolves, possibly the more careless he could become. Let’s hope that is the case.”, Rengar spoke as they appeared to get closer and closer to the edge of the forest.





Then, they broke out of the shrubbery.

Before them was a massive plateau that dropped into a steep cliff down below. The ground was wet from the moisture, and the skies shook with thunder. A gust of wind pushed against Rengar and Fluttershy’s fur, sending a chill down the later’s spine.

Standing in the middle of the top of the plateau, was Kha’zix, eyeing the two with his two glowing green eyes. A closer look showed that bits and pieces of his shell and exoskeleton were molting off, some even dropping to the ground to become lost in the mud.

Then, Kha’zix spoke after he recognised Fluttershy.

“Really, Rengar? You still can’t stand to fight me alone like the true hunter that you are? What’s this? A meatshield you’ll throw in front of me? Pathetic!”, Kha’zix slashed his blades into the ground and chuckled.

Then, Fluttershy stepped forward.

“My whole life, I dedicated to saving the little and kind critters of this forest and returning kindness to those who need it. No matter what ponies say to me, no matter how they treat me, I will always show them what it means to be the Element of Kindness.”

She continued to walk forwards, the sword mounted on her back.

“I believe that everypony deserves to be treated right and with love! But you…”

She took the sword in her mouth, planted it into the ground, and pointed at the monster.

“...you proved me wrong! You are a monster! A monster that doesn’t deserve a chance at redemption! A monster that should be locked up forever with the key thrown away in tartarus!”

Fluttershy couldn’t believe what she was saying to something even as vile as Kha’zix, but deep down, she knew she meant every word.

“A monster… that doesn’t deserve anything to call a friend.”

        Kha’zix simply grew a twisted smile and cracked his head to the side.

        “Friends… ah… that brings up memories to you, doesn’t it?”

        Fluttershy gritted her teeth at the mention. When Kha’zix spoke the word “friends”, it carried none of the joy she remembered with her company. It felt like a weapon, a sword being stabbed into her through her heart.

        “Tell me, Fluttershy. How did it feel when I slaughtered those ponies, while you couldn’t do a thing? You stood and watched helpless as I eviscerated every single one of those pathetic creatures!”

        Rengar suddenly brandished his knife in one arm, and a bola in another.

        “Enough, Kha’zix! You want to claim me as your kill? Then come and fight!”

        Kha’zix ignored his arch-nemesis. 

        “Fluttershy, how well do you remember the screams in your head…? They called for help… but none came…”, Kha’zix cackled mockingly at the hurt pony.

        “Sh-shut up!”, Fluttershy screamed, tears of rage in her eyes.

        “Don’t listen to a word this thing says, Fluttershy! Look at me!”, Rengar called out to her.

        Then, Kha’zix spoke one more time.

        “Do you want to see your friends again, Fluttershy…?”

        Kha’zix pulled up one of his blades and pointed the crackling tip straight at her.

        “I’ll arrange the reunion!”

        Fluttershy suddenly felt a pain. A pain like nothing else that had ever come before. It felt as if it skewered her, burned her, ate away at her. She even recoiled from it, and looked up towards Kha’zix. She stared at this alien and felt something she had never felt before. 

        Hatred.

        “Don’t listen to him! He’s trying to-”

        Rengar’s warning came too late.

        Fluttershy’s wings spread apart, and she flew like she had never flown before. The sword was locked in her jaw, and she dove straight for Kha’zix. The alien smiled and simply swatted her aside, his energy blade coming into contact with Shining Armor’s crystalline sword. Sparks flew from the clash and Fluttershy was sent away, landing on the ground and sliding backwards from the velocity.

        “Hmmmm… this will be fun…”, Kha’zix laughed as more and more pieces from his exoskeleton came off. No more was he bounded by the League’s restrictions on his evolutions. He was free to consume-

        -and adapt.

        Kha’zix gave a jolt and the rest of the flaky pieces blasted off of him, revealing a dark red coat beneath his purple one. His blades now glowed a deathly red as they crackled and hummed in the air.

        Rengar grit his teeth. Kha’zix had evolved his active camouflage. Most of the time, Kha’zix wasn’t able to do so by restriction by the summoners. But now, he was at an unimaginable power. He was free of his bindings. The call of the void now headed him, and he would ravage this world.

        Fluttershy recovered from the parry and suddenly felt a raindrop hit her nose.

        Then, a raindrop hit Rengar’s paw.

        Another landed on Kha’zix’s back.

        Then, more and more came down. Rain shot from the skies to fall to Equestria. Soon, it was pouring and drenching the ground beneath the fighters. Whatever rain fell onto Kha’zix’s energy blades evaporated on contact with a hiss.

        They stood there, eyeing each other. Waiting for one to attack, or the other.

        Then, Kha’zix disappeared.

        Fluttershy stepped back and looked around frantically, unsure of where he went.

        Rengar reacted and closed his eyes.


“Focuuussssss…”


        He didn’t stealth himself like Kha’zix did, or it would leave Fluttershy as the only target. Rengar instead examined his surroundings, watching for signs of the monster. But now, he couldn’t find Kha’zix. His active camouflage was now evolved, completely concealing him.

        Rengar cursed. The summoners restricted this power of Kha’zix in the League of Legends from detection. However, it wasn’t the League of Legends. Now Kha’zix was able to move about freely without fear of retaliation or sight.

        Fluttershy backed up against Rengar, her heart racing faster and faster.

        “Don’t be afraid. If we stay together, even he will have a difficult time to attack us. Look for anything that would be out of place. Footprints, odor, sounds of movement, anything that is out of the ordinary.”, Rengar instructed Fluttershy.

        She nodded and took a deep breath and scanned her side of the area. The rain beat down harder and harder, causing Fluttershy’s mane to limp downwards in a soggy display. Rengar’s coat got the same treatment as his mane began to flatten a bit.

        She watched as much as she could. A thick fog began to roll into the cliff, concealing the deadly drop that lay below the mist.

        Rengar watched, and watched, feeling that Kha’zix was silently laughing somewhere, mocking him.

        Then, Fluttershy noticed something peculiar.

        There was a tiny area where the rain poured down in blankets, but failed to strike the ground. Instead, it seemed to stop at something that couldn’t be seen. Something was there, and it was stopping the rain. When Fluttershy looked closer, she could swear that something blurred in reaction, then footprints began to rapidly form on the ground, heading straight for Fluttershy.

        “R-Rengar! He’s on my side!”

        It didn’t even take a second for the lion to respond. He suddenly jumped in front of Fluttershy and swung his Hunting Knife with all of his might. It collided with something, only for that something to be a decloaked Kha’zix, with his energy blade blocking the attack.

        “Clever creature…”, Kha’zix smiled with his needle-like teeth.

        “I wouldn’t say the same for you.”, Rengar mocked back at his enemy.

        At the same time, Fluttershy flew upwards and landed on the other side behind Kha’zix and slashed with the sword. The oversized insect stopped the attack with his other arm, clashing blades once more. Realising that he would be locked down in this situation, Kha’zix turned towards Rengar, loaded in his spikes, and attempted to launch them.

        Rengar saw this action a mile away and ducked, letting Kha’zix’s blade go away as the spikes rushed over his head. Sliding to his side, Rengar attempted to slash as he jumped back to disengage, being defeated by another parry from Kha’zix. 

        Fluttershy drew back and now came after Kha’zix with a flurry of untrained, but unpredictable barrage of attacks. Kha’zix met every single one of them effortlessly, sparks thrown left and right from the defenses.

        At this point, the lion hunter took a bola from his waist, gave it a spin to reveal the webbing of net that was woven in between, and gave it a hurl as he shouted, “Up!”

        It didn’t take Fluttershy much question to follow Rengar’s instruction. With a spread of her wings, she ascended as rapidly as she could. Kha’zix was too distracted on the pony to realise the incoming threat from behind. However, his antennae picked up the vibrations in the air, and allowed him to simply leap upwards too, avoiding the bola.

        “Not so fast!”, Rengar shouted as he suddenly hurled another net from his left paw, spinning through the air higher up, straight in Kha’zix’s flight path. The Voidreaver became entangled as he tried to slash at Fluttershy, but came just short before the bola encircled around him, binding his arms and legs together in the net webbing.

        With a thud, Kha’zix fell to the ground, grunting in frustration. Looking ahead, Rengar was rushing straight for him with his Hunting Knife in one paw, and wrist blades produced out of the other.

        Then, Kha’zix wriggled himself to face the lion, and fired off his spikes. Through his rushing, the sight of the spikes came far too late and they embedded all over him. In his chest, shoulder, arm, and one even fragmented all over his face. The lion tumbled down from the excruciating pain.

        “Rengar!”

        Fluttershy dove downwards towards the entangled Kha’zix, who angled his blades to burn the bola and free himself. He became free just in time to deflect Fluttershy’s attack with both of his blades and push her off.

        She landed on the ground and gave a snort from her nose. The rain gave her a shivering fit as she still summoned the will to go on and avenge all of the destruction and pain Kha’zix had caused.

        Then, Kha’zix went invisible and suddenly reappeared in front of Fluttershy. He began to absolutely berserk his attacks, slashing and slashing at her in a wild, yet calculated rage. Fluttershy barely could avoid or deflect the incoming attacks, the strength of Kha’zix beginning to take a toll on her as every time they slashed swords, the force pushed or jolted her backwards. She backed up more and more, with suddenly a hoof finding no more ground to place itself on. 

        She was being backed towards the cliff, the fog still concealing what lay below her.

        Rengar had recovered from the volley of spikes and suddenly widened his eye.

        “No!”

        He suddenly broke into invisibility and charged for Kha’zix. When Fluttershy saw this through the corner of her eye, she quickly ran through Kha’zix’s legs right as he impacted down with his blades on her former location. FLuttershy fled from the monster, who spread his wings, and leaped after her.

        While he was unseen, the ferocity began to build in Rengar. This was no longer a hunt. This was a battle of life or death. This time, death meant that result to his new home, and even his origin birthplace. The ferocity gained and gained within him. He silently counted in his head.

        “Two…”

        Rengar’s instincts suddenly overloaded his senses once more, his breathing becoming more and more animalistic with every fleeting milisecond.

        “Three…”

        He prepared a bola in his free hand and watched as Kha’zix approached the fleeing Fluttershy, acting as the bait towards Rengar’s next attack.

        “Four…”

        The ferocity was now at an unparalleled level within him. His heart beat faster, faster, faster, and faster. 

        “Five…”

        Then, the grip on his knife tightened. Rengar was now pure savagery. 

        “Zero…”

        A roar of the lion rang out through the entire forest as Kha’zix's antennae picked up Rengar’s whereabouts too late. The hunter leaped out of nowhere, a bola thrown from his grip at the incoming Kha’zix. The bola connected, entangling him once again in the air. Before Kha’zix could simply unleash another barrage of spikes again, Rengar blasted a gigantic roar from his jaws, hurling Kha’zix back into the ground from the sheer force exerted.

        When he landed, Rengar plunged the knife into Kha’zix’s figure entangled in the net. The voidling snarled as the knife shot into his chest, sending a shock of pain and agony through Kha’zix. However, Kha’zix’s legs were still free, and managed to shove Rengar away from him. After freeing himself from yet another bola, Kha’zix hissed this time, his blades at his side.

        Now, Kha’zix moved a bit slower. The wound Rengar gave to him was very deep and painful to work around. However, Rengar knew that most voidlings were durable, and Kha’zix was far from an ordinary one. Fluttershy came back down to Rengar’s side and watched for Kha’zix’s next move.

        Suddenly, the two saw something that not even Rengar had seen Kha’zix do before. The ultimate predator angled his energy blade into the wound, and began to burn himself. What scream Kha’zix made was the most ear-shattering and painful noise to have ever traveled into Rengar’s and Fluttershy’s ears. Then, they realised what he was doing. He was cauterising his own wound to stop it from bleeding.

        “No! Don’t let him!”

        Rengar hurled another bola, but Kha’zix had finished up with his self-treatment. He went invisible again.

        “Horsefeathers… not again.”, Fluttershy cursed as she watched around again.

        This time, Kha’zix didn’t stay invisible for long. He suddenly reappeared in one location, and fired a barrage of biospikes as the duo, spreading out while in flight. The lion and pony frantically tried to avoid the attack, with Fluttershy being more lucky than Rengar due to her smaller stature, but Rengar took a large spike to the chest. Grunting and breaking the spike so it wouldn’t get in the way, Rengar noticed Kha’zix reappear again.

“He’s over there! Watch out!”

Another barrage of spike was hurled, with Fluttershy being in front of Rengar. One spike        impacted into her side, causing an explosive blast to send her careering away from the airburst. Fragments of the spike filled her side as she yelped in terrible pain. Rengar backed away and rushed over to Fluttershy.

“Are you okay?!”

Fluttershy brushed her hoof along her side, forcing some of the spikes to come loose. 

“Don’t do that! You’ll bleed!”  

Fluttershy bit her lip as she stood back up, amazing Rengar as she was fighting through her pain. Getting to her four legs, she noticed that Kha’zix had reappeared again, and was lining up another shot at them.

Not this time.

The pony spread her wings and bolted after Kha’zix, who suddenly realised that a missile with a sword in its mouth was heading straight for him. In reaction, Rengar leaped at Kha’zix as well to re-engage. The sword and knife clashed with Kha’zix’s energy blades once more as they strained to stick together, fight both sides of Kha’zix, and most importantly, not become isolated. They slashed, stabbed, and fought through the pouring rain, splashes from the frantic footsteps were kicked up all around from the combat.

Kha’zix grew more and more restless.

Then, Fluttershy brought her sword down onto Kha’zix’s back, cutting through the shell and earning another gash. Despite the injury, Kha’zix noticed that Fluttershy’s sword was now down inside of him, instead of at her side to defend.

With a quick motion, Kha’zix suddenly brought the fight towards the edge of the cliff, forcing Fluttershy to back up and Rengar to follow close by. As Fluttershy was pulling out the sword, a jolt of pain was sent down Kha’zix as he dropped his blade against Rengar. Seeing the opportunity, Rengar sliced towards his head. Kha’zix managed to duck, but his antennae were still too high. They separated from his head from Rengar’s knife, falling to the ground.

Then, Fluttershy spread her wings for leverage and backwards strength, and wrenched the sword from Kha’zix’s back. Blood from the creature of the void flew into the air as Kha’zix ignored the pain for a brief second.

From the force of sword being pulled, Fluttershy stumbled backwards, almost reaching the edge of the cliff with her wings spread out.

Now, Kha’zix seized the opportunity. Using his foot to throw mud straight into Rengar’s face, he pushed him away with a headbutt. Rengar stumbled back and wiped his eye clean just in time to see what would happen next.

When Fluttershy barely recovered from her stumble from before, Kha’zix suddenly whirled around, and struck.

Both of his blades hummed through the raining air as with one quick motion, he sliced off both of Fluttershy’s wings. Fluttershy screamed a scream that carried the sheer and unbelievable pain that was inflicted onto her, her wings dropping off of the cliff into the fog down below.

“NO! FLUTTERSHY!”, Rengar shouted as he held a paw out, seemingly as if he was trying to desperately reach out to her.

Then, with a kick from Kha’zix, Fluttershy stumbled backwards and fell off of the cliff into the abyss below.

Rengar couldn’t believe it.

She was gone.

Fluttershy fought so valiantly, and yet, it was for nothing.

She didn’t even scream as she fell below.

Then, Rengar took his knife once more, and drew both of his wrist-mounted blades.

“That was a mistake, Kha’zix.”

Kha’zix smiled and cackled.

“Why? Because you have nothing left to die for?”

Rengar felt a calm surge through him. His muscles relaxed, despite the pain he was in, and from witnessing Fluttershy fall to her doom.

“No.”

Rengar glared at Kha’zix with a vengeful tranquility in his eyes.

“Because I have nothing left to fear.”

The lion suddenly broke into another leap at Kha’zix, hurling a bola at the creature. This time, Kha’zix cut apart the weapon in mid flight and managed to stop Rengar’s attack dead in its tracks. Sparks flew from the blades as the rain and muddy ground quickly extinguished them. Lightning struck down onto a tree, sparks and embers flying off from the damp shrubbery.

Rengar kept his attacks coming, slash after slash. 

        The calm inside of him surged. It was no longer ferocity, it was tranquility. He looked into the eyes of death itself, and did not flinch for a second.

        Tirelessly, they fought through the harsh rain.

        Rengar’s eye never left Kha’zix as they clashed attacks, back and forth.

        “We can’t fight like this forever, Kha’zix! Until you kill me, you will never gain the power you seek!”, Rengar shouted.

        Kha’zix snarled as he battered at Rengar with more and more attacks. Even though Rengar was isolated, he was still fighting to a bitter effort of all of his might. 

        Kha’zix now went on the offensive, bringing down both of his blades into a power swing. Energy blasted out from the blades when they collided with Rengar’s Hunting Knife. Rengar threw forwards his wrist-blades, earning a gash on Kha’zix’s shoulder. 

        This was what he needed. The needle-shaped teeth burrowed down into Rengar’s arm as Kha’zix clamped down in teeth, earning a roar from Rengar in agony. Then, with a slash of his blade, Kha’zix aimed for Rengar’s face.

        A flash from contact, and smoke billowed from Rengar’s face. He clutched it, his hand over his eye. It burned like a thousand suns had shot their energy into him.

        However, when Rengar removed his paw from his eye, he still couldn’t see. All he could see was red. He backed up, breathing heavily, the calm now gone from him. 

        Kha’zix had destroyed Rengar’s other eye.

        He took one, he now took the other.

        “Gah… agh…!”, Rengar huffed as where his eye used to be, a jagged crater of burnt flesh replaced it.

        Kha’zix spoke up through his pain.

        “That felt a little familiar… didn’t it, Rengar?”

        Rengar didn’t know what to do. His eyesight was completely gone. He saw red, and only red.

        “Poor, poor Rengar… would you like me to put you out of your misery now? Or perhaps I’m more in the mood to see how much you can bleed….”

        Kha’zix began to approach Rengar. He had no idea where Kha’zix was coming from. 

        Then, Rengar could feel his other senses replacing the one he lost.

        He could hear the footsteps, despite the pounding rain. Every step Kha’zix made, it sent a shockwave that Rengar could feel through his whiskers.

        He felt them accelerate. Turning to his left, he felt his blade collide with something. From the crackling, he had to have struck into Kha’zix’s blades.

        Pulling away, Kha’zix sputtered in disbelief.

        “What?! How?! I removed that eye from your face!”

        Rengar suddenly growled deeply.

        “I can smell your stench from a mile away…”

        “Raggghh!”, Kha’zix shouted as he attacked Rengar again, with his adversary meeting everyone of his attacks, blow for blow.




        Emptyness. 

        Alone.

        Nothing.

        Was this what death felt like?

        It was cold.

        Fluttershy, deep inside, felt her grief. She couldn’t stay with Rengar. She had fought to the bitter end, but it wasn’t enough.

        She felt wet. Well, that was from the rain. But it was still so cold. Not a deathly cold, but a…

        Then, her eyes opened. She saw around her. She felt the rain as it hit into her. Fluttershy shivered intensely, only her coat managing to keep her on the edge of hypothermia. She looked around herself in disbelief. She fell off of the cliff, how was she still alive?

        Then, she realised that she had landed on a ledge that was made invisible from the fog that covered the drop from the cliff.

        Her sword was beside her, as well as her...wings…

        The appendages sat there, no longer connected to Fluttershy. She gasped as she quickly realised what they were, but pushed that thought aside.

        She was alive. But for how long was she knocked out? Perhaps Rengar was already dead… and Kha’zix had now reached his apex…

        But she was still alive. To improve on the matter, she heard the clash of blades above.

        Rengar was alive! 

        She felt a joy and relief inside of her, despite her pain and tiredness that she had flowing through her.

        She wanted to rejoin the fight. To show Rengar she was still alive and bring down Kha’zix.

        However, there was a problem. She had no wings. The only way up the cliff would be to climb it. She had no idea how far down she was due to the fog, but it couldn’t be that far if she survived the drop. What worried her most would be if she lost her grip. That would be her true death sentence.

        Bringing herself up one more time and taking the sword in her mouth, she planted her hoof on a grip in the cliff, and began to pull herself upwards.





        Rengar and Kha’zix were apart from each other. Rengar was panting and heaving while Kha’zix cracked his neck. 

        Rengar breathed heavily, his senses becoming duller and duller.

        Kha’zix launched a volley of spikes, with Rengar not even dodging to the side to avoid the attack. Instead, he only held up his arms to shield his chest and face. The spikes exploded on Rengar’s arms, causing a malfunction in both of his wrist blades and digging more spikes into him.

        When he let his arms down, he could feel Kha’zix rushing towards him.

        He felt it too late.

        With a massive shove to the ground, Rengar tumbled down and held his knife up to deflect the finishing blow from Kha’zix.

        Sparks flew from both blades as they collided, the energy scythes that made up Kha’zix’s arms cracking and hissing with conflicting energy.        Rengar strained and strained to keep Kha’zix from ending him. 

        Then, Kha’zix began to angle the blades downwards over his knife. The tips of the scythes began to burn through his shoulder armor. Eventually, they were pushed further and further down to reach his fur, then soon, his flesh.

        Rengar roared in agony as the energy blades melted into his shoulders, slowly, but steadily, and especially painfully. He roared and roared through the pain as he tried to extend his wrist blades, but the spikes that Kha’zix had launched before had disabled them.

        As Kha’zix pushed his blades deeper into Rengar’s shoulders, Rengar shouted in agony more and more. The sadistic creature responded by deepening the pain by shoving onwards.





        A roar was heard.

        It was Rengar’s.

        Fluttershy quickened her climbing as she heard the sounds of fighting die down to be replaced by Rengar’s roar. As she climbed higher and higher, she knew that he has in excruciating pain. 

        Quickening her pace, she climbed onwards. Higher she arose, but the fog still blanketed everything around her.

        The pain from her sides missing their wings sent shocks of hurt down into her with every movement that she made. Fluttershy still pressed onwards.

        She had to get to the top.

        She had to help Rengar.

        She had to save Equestria.

        Even then, the entire world.

        The sword gripped in her mouth wasn’t making things any easier as she ascended towards the top.

        Desperation filled her as the screams grew louder from Rengar. She didn’t know how much pain Rengar was in, but from the sounds of pure suffering, she couldn’t let him bare it any longer.

        Then, the fog began to clear around her. She could see the edge of the cliff mere feet away from her. Giving one last heave of might, she brought herself over the cliff’s edge and looked ahead at the scene. Kha’zix and Rengar were locked in a life or death struggle, with Kha’zix over Rengar with his energy blades being stopped by Rengar’s knife underneath. 

        However, smoke was coming from Rengar, and his shouts of pain gave away what was occurring. Kha’zix was beginning to dig his scythes into Rengar’s shoulder as he desperately tried to keep the entirety of the Voidreaver’s blades from coming down and ending the Pridestalker.

        Fluttershy got up and began to approach from behind Kha’zix. She heaved herself towards him, the sword still in her mouth. As she approached, Kha’zix couldn’t notice her. His antennae were already removed by Rengar from the fight that ensued before.

        Fluttershy came closer to Kha’zix, her jaw clenched around the sword.

        Kha’zix sunk his blades deeper, inching closer to the bones in Rengar’s shoulder.

        Rengar roared again, the pain now becoming unbearable.

        Fluttershy suddenly brought the sword up, and leaped for Kha’zix.

        The voidling didn’t even see what was coming.

        The sword smashed down into his back, the solid crystal structure parting his back shell aside and slicing through his body. Kha’zix gasped in shock as he looked at his chest, the tip of the sword protruding from it.

        Then, Fluttershy released the sword from her mouth, and brought down both hooves on the pommel. The sword plunged deeper inside of the monster. The tip of the sword that was exposed from Kha’zix’s chest now became longer as more of the blade was shoved through him.

        The surviving Element of Harmony wrenched the sword from Kha’zix’s chest, and stabbed once more. This time, in the back of his head.

        One quick motion, and the sword was suddenly protruding from Kha’zix’s open mouth, blood trailing down the blade. A horrifying gagging and choking sound emanated from Kha’zix’s throat as the sword stabbed through his mouth.

        Fluttershy once again pulled the sword from Kha’zix, the force of it forcing him to roll over onto his back and off of Rengar. She looked over to the figure of Kha'zix. It stared into her with its eyes that carried nothing but death and hatred within them. Blood seeped from Kha'zix's chest and mouth as a sickly gurgling sound was produced from the dying Voidreaver as blood filled its mouth. Those eyes kept their fix on Fluttershy, until the sounds of suffering from the monster finally died away, the eyes petrified in one direction for all eternity.

        Fluttershy stood next to Kha’zix, the sword in her mouth.

        She could taste the blood of that alien.

        Fluttershy had killed a living being. 

        She dropped the sword out of her mouth and ran over to Rengar.

        “Rengar! Rengar! Please tell me you’re okay!”, Fluttershy stood over the lion. At one point, his screams had stopped.

        Then, she noticed the long cauterised gash across his head that burned over where his only working eye used to be.

        “R-Rengar… please… tell me you’re okay… it’s all over now…”, Fluttershy began to feel tears form into her eyes again.

        “Rengar… it’s all over now…”, Fluttershy placed her head onto the lion’s chest, not once whimpering or sobbing over him.

        Rengar’s paw moved up and placed itself on Fluttershy’s head. She turned her head to her side to find Rengar, his face completely burned, yet having a soft smile formed onto it at her.




“Thank you… Fluttershy.”