Author's Note: Okay, I know I warn about either awesome stuff or gruesome stuff a lot lately, but I'm very serious here when I say things get heavy on both. Prepare yourselves, comrads, for we are about to embark on a journey of epicness. Now, on with it, as I tend to say way too much.
Right now should be the time when I should be nearly wetting myself in fear from having to take on a godly entity and his house-sized bone dragon, but honesty, I stopped caring what kind of stuff came after me a long time ago. I no longer give a buck. I just wanna take this guy down and go home.
Grim and his, um, Stallord? Yeah that's it. Grim and Stallord sstand across from us on the opposite side of the arena, Grim smirking at us.
"Seriously, what is going on?" Orion asks, still blind.
"Oh, you know, Grim just summoned a thirty foot tall skeletal dragon to try and crush us into a million little pieces. Nothing new."
"Say what now?"
"Never mind." I turn to Vine. "You make sure he gets to some place safe until his blindness wears off."
"On it." she says. She grunts as she picks him up on her back. "Geez, what have you been eating?"
"Rarity." he answers.
"Say what?" Vine says, confused and concerned at what he means.
"Nothing, just take me up."
Vine facehoofs. "Ugh, fine." with that she flies off with Orion in tow. She flies up to a small cliff and sets him down. "Okay, you just sit here and don't move. You might fall off."
"Alright, mom." Orion says in annoyance.
Vine rolls her eyes at him before flying back done.
I look to Rhin, Ice on his back. "And you get Ice out of here too."
He gives a salute. "On it." he uses his quick teleportation to teleport up to the platform with Orion on it. He sets Ice down. "Here, Orion. You'll have some company while you're up here."
"Rhino, is that you?"
"Yeah, just 'chill' out with Ice for a little bit."
"Isn't it Blue's job to make bad puns?"
Rhino chuckles. "Doesn't mean I can't make 'em. Anyway, just stay here for a bit." Rhino then teleports back down.
"Can do." Orion says. "So, Ice, how you doing?" he asks. He then realizes something. "Oh, yeah. You're still unconscious."
With our two incapable of fighting friends safe for themoment, we all regroup down at the arena.
Grim raises an eyebrow. "So, you going to fight, or are you going to just stand there, gawking?"
Zeph kneels down, ready to attack. "I'll go first."
"You sure, Zeph?" I ask.
He smirks. "Just trust me, Blue. I got this."
"Well, alright."
This should be interesting at least.
(Boss Battle 10 Part 2: Grim Blade and Stallord. BEGIN!)
With the mace in his forelegs, Zephyr goes shooting off towards Stallord. Grim smirks. "Fool! Thinking you could take on Stallord head on!"
"Not quite. I AM GOING TO BE THE BANE OF YOUR EXISTENCE!" Zeph retorts.
"We'll see about that."
As he reaches closer, Stallord swipes at the air only for Zeph to dodge the hits as he continues flying around him like a buzzing fly to a normal pony. As Zephyr keeps flying flying around and avoiding swipes from Stallord, he decides to land on the beast's nose. Not thinking it throygh all the way, Stallord goes in for a smack, but Zeph dodges it, making Stallord hit himself in the face.
"What?!" Grim says. "Stallord, get him!"
We all laugh at the spectacle.
As Zeph keeps flying around, he stops and turns back to Stallord. "Time for something a bit different." he dives in fast and flies right into one of his glowing eyes.
"Oh, now what is he doing?!" Grim says.
Zeph starts flying through Stallord's head, hitting it from the inside out with his mace. After a few momrnts, Stallord starts taking in breaths. After a few breaths, Stallord gives a might sneeze, making Zephyr fly out and hit a wall.
He rubs his head as he sits back up. "Ugh... What happened?"
"I think you just turned into a Stallord booger." Drax says.
Zephyr looks around after shaking his head. "Where'd my mace go?"
Stallord sneezes again, making Zeph's mace comes flying out like a bullet. We jump out of the way, but Zeph isn't so lucky as he takes the mace straight to the face, knocking him out.
We all go back to Zeph to check him out. "Zeph! You okay, buddy?" I ask worriedly, but get no response. I glare back over to Grim. "Bastard! You're going down!"
"Then do something about it, worm!" he calls out.
"That does! He's mine!" Dark shouts.
"I'm coming in too!" Drax says.
The two go flying in, Dark leading them as he's faster. Grim summons more diamond dog soldiers to fight them. As they get in, Dark gives the nearest one a good bash to the midsection, collapsing it to pieces. The ones by Drax try to jump him, but he uses his great strength to smash them together, taking them down.
With the two pegasi distracted, Stallord tries to smash his palm on Drax. Noticing this, Drax gets on his back legs and starts pushing up against it. The ground under Drax's hooves starts to give way, making a small crater in the ground.
Dark tries to fire at Stallord, but he gets jumped by several dogs in his distraction. Unable to sustain the force, Drax is smashed under Stallord's hand, completely incapasitated from it. No longer dealing with Drax, Stallord grabs the helpless Dark throws him against a wall hard, knocking him out as well.
This is getting really bad.
Rhino Reses up to Stallord to grinds along its arm. He gives it a swift buck to the eye, making the beast recoil. Before Stallord can shake him off, he hops down. Grim comes running up to him with his horn ready, but Rhino catches him with his own horn. When it seems like Rhino is about to overpower Grim, Grim shoots a beam directly at Rhino's head.
Feeling a new pain in the center of is skull, Rhino collapses to the ground, holding his head. "GAH! MY HEAD IS KILLING ME!" he shouts.
"RHINO!" I shout.
"Don't worry, I got him." Vine says. Using her powers, she pulls him, as well as Drax and Dark, over to us and out of harms way. We cotinue glaring at Grim.
"Do you like it? I used my Mind Flay spell on your green friend." he says.
"You're going to pay for this!" Vine shouts. She summons a bunch of vines to attack Grim, but Stallord blocks them. Using her inner strength, Vine's entire body starts glowing as she summons Rosebud the second to fight Stallord. The two behemoths start battling each other in a pushing match.
Taking notice of neither monster being able to overpower the other, Grim decides to attack Vine directly. "Haunting Shades!" using his powers for necromancy, he summons three ghost like creatures infront of us.
Graze and I each take on our own with our element powers, using distance attacks to take down the shades. Having used most of her energy on Rosebud, Vine isn't so lucky. The shade grabs her and throws her down to the ground. Noticing its master in pain, Rosebud throws at vine right through the shade's body.
"Exactly as I planned." Grim says. "Now, Stallord!"
With an open opportunity, Stallord uses his huge mouth to rip a big chunk off of Rosebud, then uses his powerful claws to rip the plant monster apart.
"ROSEBUD! NO!" Vine shouts. Tears come to her eyes before she gets up and wipes them away. "YOU WILL BE DESTROYED FOR THIS!"
Grim laughs again. "Not if this pitiful dusplay is supposed to do it!"
Graze and I, now having had enough, go in together. We both shoot projectiles at Stallord, but those have no effect. Instead, we try to charge our hooves and get in a bit closer. Graze takes some very focused hits at Stallord's frontal spine, making the monster yelp out in pain. I give it agood Double Hurricane Hoof to his nose, knocking it back and puting some cracks in it.
Seeing his pet being destroyed, Grim starts charging his horn. Graze notices this. "Oh no you don't!" he flies down towards Grim and tackle him. He gives Graze a powrful combination of punches and kicks all over before finishing up with a strong buck to Grim's jaw.
"Good going, Graze!" I say. In my celebration, Stallord grabs me and starts giving me an evil smile. I try to free myself, but find myself unable to get away. Stallord grabs my wings with two fingers as I freeze up in fear.
"NO! BLUE!" Graze shouts, turning away from Grim.
Grim grins. "Yes, Stallord! Do it!"
Stallord starts slowly pulling his hand up, tearing every fiber of my wings from my body. I shriek in the immense pain as the most sensitive part of the pegasus anatomy is torn from me. I feel hot tears form in my eyes from the agonizing pain.
"BLUE!" Vine shouts.
"BLUE?! WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Orion shouts from up above. The others are still unconscious, all except Rhino who is stil holding his head inpain.
As Stallord finishes, he drops my body to the ground, and I hit it with a thud. He takes my wings and plops them into his mouth before swallowing them and having them drup under him.
I can feel the stinging from the open wound of where my wings used to be. I slowly open my eyes and look to see a madded pile of feather and blood under Stallord. I feel more tears come to my eyes.
Even through all of the pain I'm going through, I know full well that I'm one of the last standing members of my team. I try to get on my hooves, but find it very difficult.
(Thanks goes to Rhino for this very well done, but still painful for me to look at, image)
I'm not sure what to do now. Now it's just down to Graze, Vine, a blind Orion, and two ponies who can't even stand up.
Is all hope for this fight lost..?