//------------------------------// // The Booming Fight // Story: Continuing the Dream // by Blue Breeze //------------------------------// Author's Note: Okay, finally back to getting some action. I know you all have been craving it, so let's not stall any longer. Time to get on with the story and the action. Grim Blade looks at the portal infront of him angrily, looking like he's on the verge of another freakout. He shouts in anger. "GAH! Iron Shell, that idiot! I'll have his head for letting them pass!" he shouts. Tombstone shakes in fear, worrying about getting something thrown at him again. "But he's just doing the task you gave him. Let anyponies who answer his five riddles be carried passed the river." Grim sinks back in his throne and sighs. "I know." he repeatedly hits his forehead. "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Why did I think of that rule?" "Like you said, you're stupid." Graze says, smirking. Grim growls at him. "I bet you think you're so clever, don't you?" "Kind of, yeah." "Well, you won't be talking like that when you see Volcanous rip your friends apart limb from limb." Graze waves him off. "Yeah right. Like they'd go and die now. I know they're gonna do it." Grim grins evilly as he puts his hooves together. "We shall see." Over up at the River Styx We continue riding Iron Shell as we near the City of Dis. The entire ride over, angry ponies in the river reach up at us, but are unable to reach us. Dark thought it'd be fun to hang over the side and taunt them the entire time, talking about how he's free and they aren't. He laughs. "You guys should really try this. It's fun." he says to us. "I'll pass. I don't need the undead being angry at me when there's a zombie apocalypse." I say. Everypony else agrees, even on the zombie part. "Aw, you guys are lame." he continues going back to making fun of them, but we suddenly stop, making him nearly fall off the edge. "Hey, what gives?" "We have now arrived at the City of Dis. This is as far as I can take you all." Iron Shell says. "Wait, so does that mean we can use magic again?" Zephyr asks. "That is correct." Zephyr flaps his wings a bit, making him hover off of Iron Shell. He puts a hoof up in celebration. "Buck yeah! I can fly again!" I charge up some energy in my hoof and see wind coming off of it. "And we can use our powers again." We all have a short celebration at no longer being handicapped before hopping off of Iron and looking back to him. "Good luck to you all. I will stand watch here for if you return." "Thanks, Iron. Don't worry, we plan to come back." I say. We start making our way down a long, empty street leading up to what looks like a burning building. There's smoke and fire coming off of it, but it still stands easily. This place is weird. If my memort serves me, next should be the circle of Heresy. This one's a bit tricky. It's the sin of having a faith, but believing in some stuff that goes against it. Like say you worship Celestia and Luna, but believe in having an eternal night like Nightmare Moon. Which is completely idiotic, but that's beside the point. As we walk, Dark gets this weird feeling on one of his back legs. He shakes it a bit. "Why does my leg feel wet? Did I step in something?" he looks at it to see a gelatinous, water-like creature sticking to him. "Ah! Get it off!" He shakes his leg harder and harder, eventually making the creature fly off and let him go. As it splats to the ground, the bits that flew off reform into one mass. It jiggles in place. Dark charges up his hooves as he gets in a fighting stance. "You wanna go?" the creature forms into a miniature version of Dark, copying his pose. "What the? Hey, cut that out!" he points. The thing does the same. We laugh. "I think it's making fun of you, Dark." Zeph says. "It's going down!" "Oh, just calm down, Dark." Vine says. She walks over to it and starts petting it as if it were an animal, the thing actually looking like it's enjoying it. "This creature is called an ooze." "An ooze?" Ice asks. "What's that?" "Yeah, it looks like jello." Orion says. "Or like my favorite kind of jelly." Rhino says. "Can't get that applesauce off the mind, eh?" Drax says. Rhino gives a sheepish smile. "What can I say? That stuff is really good." "As I was trying to say, an ooze is a water-like creature that is usually found near the River Styx, so finding it where we did was no coincidence. It probably followed us here." Vine explains. She looks at it and smiles as it smiles at here, it taking on a pony-like form. "You know what? I think I'm gonna keep it." "You're gonna keep that thing as a pet?" I ask. "Sure, why not? You adopted a lupis minor. Why can't I have an ooze?" "Hmm, fair enough." "So, what are you gonna call it?" Drax asks. Vine puts a hoof to her chin as she thinks. "Ah ha! I think I've got it." she looks down at it. "I'm gonna call you Ciel. Do you like that?" the ooze does a bit of a dance before nodding to her. She giggles. "Alright, Ciel it is." "Well, that's all fine and dandy, but we've got more work to do. We don't have time for breaks." Dark says, continuing to walk along the path. "Right." we all say. We follow after him as we all continue to walk, Ciel sticking with Vine. We near the incredibly large building and force open the doors inside. We take some stairs as we go down to the sixth circle: Heresy. As we go down, we see the bodies of ponies being burned. We can hear their screams as they all cry out in agony. We all look upon in disgust and even fear at these poor souls. Not only are they burning, but they are all stuck to the ground as well, stopping them from rolling the fire off of them. Ciel looks at the fire angrily. Vine notices this. "I know, Ciel. I hate this awful place too." Vine starts getting an idea in her head(no, really? I thought it'd be in her butt.). "Ciel, you thinking what I'm thinking?" The ooze looks at her and smiles before nodding. Using its(it's genderless) body made of pure water, Ciel douses some of the flames from the burning ponies. The ponies look up at us, smiling in relief. "Thank you, noble heroes." one says. "You are true angels for saving us from that torture." "Which is exactly the reason I am going to destroy them and wear their skins like pelts." a deep and angry voice says in the distance. We look over to see a big, gruff, and muscular earth pony stallion wearing a suit and holding a large, iron hammer. The stallion has a red coat with a long, brown mane and tail and a short, brown beard around his muzzle. He also has a scar down his left eye and has a bite taken out of his ear. "You ponies should have turn back when you had the chance." he takes a step forward, making a bit of a booming noise. "I am Volcanous, watcher over the circle of Heresy, and you have all made a grave mistake in relieving these ponies of their torture." he lets his hammer drop down. "I shall take you all down personally." I step forward. "Okay, look. We didn't know it was against the rules. Our bad, alright? Now, if you'll just let us walk on by-" "Never!" he interrupts. I silently growl before glaring at him. "Fine, it's your funeral." I begin cracking my joints as I mutter to myself in annoyance. "Everypony's just gotta be a frwaking tough guys down here, picking fights when they can just step aside and let us through. No, they want to fight. Fine by me." I finish cracking my joints as I get ready at to charge at him. "Okay, let's do this." (Boss Battle 6: Volcanous. BEGIN!) I charge up my wings asI stretch them out. I take off in a mad dash towards Volcanous, ready to take him out quickly. As I get close, I use my wings to slash his chest, cutting his suit and making blood come puring out. I amirk. "Is that all?" "Hmm, I was going to ask you the same question." he says. "What?!" I say in shock. "Weakling!" he grabs me by my tail and smashes me into the ground infront of him, creating cracks in it. Still having me by the tail, he chucks me over at a wall with incredible speed, making a hole in the wall as I hit it. "Is this all that you can do?! And to think you made it this far with your lives!" "How about you try me, Mr. Cranky?!" Drax shouts. He fies at Volcanous while the red earth pony gets on his hind legs and goes for a swing with his hammer. Not being fast enough, Drax grabs the hammer and the push back and forth in a toss up. Drax gives him a headbutt, but he doesn't flinxh. He smirks slightly. "You are quite strong, but not strong enough to deal with me!" he knees Drax in the gut before grabbing him by the mane and throwing him. Drax goes flying at Rhino, but he teleports out of the way and over at Volcanous to give him a buck to the side. Volcanous looks at Rhino with a bored look. "Really?" with just one hoof, Volcanous swings his hammer at Rhino, sending the unicorn flying to an open fire pit. "Rhino!" Dark shouts. He quickly flies off to uncharacteristically save him. He catches him just before he lands and sets him down on solid ground. Rhino looks at him, puzzled. "Dark?" He rubs the back of his head. "I got to thinking. You were right, I am sorry about all that stuff. We even?" he asks, sticking out a hoof. Rhino smiles before brohoofing him. "We're even." "Buck yeah! Now let's go teach this flankhole a lesson!" Dark takes off towards Volcanous, flying directly above him. "Let's see how you like this!" he shoots a concentrated blast of lightning at him. Volcanous just stands there completely unphased. "And to think you all beat Alloy to get here. I am very disappointed." he takes his hammer and throws it at ark, knocking the black and red pegasus right out of the air. Dark rubs his head, lying on the ground. "Geez, I think I felt my skull crack on that one." Volcanous walks over to his hammer and picks it up. He suddenly feels a drop of water drop on his snout. He looks up to see Ciel hanging on the celing. "Way to go, Ciel!" Vine cheers. "What the devil?" Volcanous says. Ciel falls on him, completely engulfing him in water and keeping him in place. "Now it's my turn." Ice says. He fires off a bunch of small ice shards at him, some only scratching him while others stab his chest. Getting angry, Volcanous uses his incredible strength to burst out of Ciel, making water go everywhere. "Ciel!" Vine calls out. She starts getting angry. "You're going to pay for that!" "I doubt it with your puny powers." he retorts. He literally grabs an ice shard sticking out of his chest and crushes it with his bare hoof. "We'll see about that!" Vine makes several vines pop up and go after him. He doesn't bother dodging, or even flinching at the small scratches and whips to his body. "As I said, weak." he says plainly. "Grr, you're mine!" Orion shouts. "Mine too!" Zephyr shouts, following him. The two pegasi go shooting off like rockets after him. They both tackle him simultaneously, making a small shock wave go off and making him slide back a bit. Still as strong as ever, Volcanous ignores the blow and grabs the both of them. He throws Orion at Ice and Zeph at Vine, neither of them getting out of the way in time. Coming back into the fight, Rhino uses Res to slip up Volcanous, making him wall on his back. He jumps on top of him with all of his weight, but Volcanous still doesn't flinch. The large earth pony throws him off and grabs his hammer. He stands over him with his hammer ready. "Say good bye!" Over off in the distance, Drax gets up, shaking off the pain. His eyes widen as he looks out. "Rhino! No! I'll never make it in time." he says to himself. Right next to him, Ciel reforms itself. Drax looks upon it in wonder. "Ciel?" The ooze goes up to him and starts using its form to explain it's plan to him. "You want me to throw you at him?" The ooze nods before getting into a ball. Drax picks it up and looks at it. "Well, if you're sure." he looks ovet Volcanous. "Hey, ugly!" Volcanous looks back at him. "What did you say?!" "I said you're ugly! Now back away from my friend!" he throws the ball at lightning speed towards Volcanous' face. As it makes contact, it makes a dinging noise, as if the ball were metallic. The force is so strong that it makes Volcanous stumble back. Vine's eyes light up at seeing the ball. "Ciel! You're okay!" Having gotten up earlier, I had watched the scene take place. As you can guess, knowing me, I thought of a plan. "Guys, we need to get him airborn!" I shout. "What?!" everypony shouts. "No time for questions! ust do it! Rhino, Res!" "On it!" he says. Using his Res, Volcanous slips onto his back with a thud. "Ice, pillar!" "You got it!" he stomps his hooves, making a pillar come up that throws Volcanous into the air. "Higher! Vine, vines!" "Sure thing!" using her powers, she summons some vines that take Volcanous and throw him up in his daze. "Drax, Orion, shoot him up!" "No sweat!" they each say. They each shoot off towards him, and with Drax's strength and Orion's powerful crash, he shoots up near the ceiling. "Now it's my turn!" I shout. I get under him and get ready for a wind-charged buck. As you can guess again, I named it. "BLUSTERING BUCK!" the force of the buck is so powerful that it sends him straight through the roof. I look back down. "Zephyr, Dark, grab him!" "You bet!" they shout at the same time. Going up through the hole in the ceiling, they each take hold of him. "Now drop him!" Zeph and Dark each get a mischievious grin at the idea and instantly start aiming downwards. Kowing what's about to happen, the others and I make sure to clear out of the way. As they fall, they start spinning around as a cone forms. In seconds the cone breaks, makinga boom like the one they did before go off, making a spinning blue, black, and red trail do behind him. "DOUBLE SONIC BOOM DROP!" *BOOM* As they hit the ground, a humongous explosion that destroys the roof goes off, making everypony in the air fly back. We all get up as we see a big crater where they hit. As the smoke clears, we see Zeph and Dark coming out, giving a highhoof as they walk. "WOOT! My plan worked!" I cheer. "Yeah, and it kicked flank!" Dark says. "Yeah, that was awesome!" Zeph says. "F-Fools..." a voice says from the crater. We all look on in disbelief to see Volcanous still conscious, trying to get up. "I will not be defeated so easily." Ice growls angrily. "I've had just about enough of you!" he stomps his hooves hard, making a bunch of small pillars shoot out and impale all of Volcanous' legs, keeping him from moving. (End battle music) He lets out a scream of pain from it. "What have you done to me?!" Ice smirks. "Just making sure you won't try anything. I'm done playing." Volcanous continues screaming at us angrily, but we ignore him as we continue on with our journey. Yeesh, and I thought Alloy was tough to put down. Author's Note: Volcanous comes from Dleifragcat. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.