Odrsjot

by Imploding Colon

Flame and More Flame

Rainbow Dash dove low. The world was a howling mess around her, causing the stars to shake along the edges of her vision until they surrendered completely to shadow. Nevlamas descended upon the pegasus, her chaotically-charged breath heating the air up by twenty degrees in seconds.

Wincing, Rainbow threaded her way through the first ravine she saw. It was a narrow trench, winding north and south in a serpentine fashion. With every turn and bend, the tell-tale aquamarine glow of Nevlamas' menace flickered after her.

The walls opened up to a bizarre stone forest of jutting rock towers. Rainbow was too panicked to marvel at the formations; she jutted through them like a streaking comet. And Nevlamas—

"Hraaaaaauckkkkt!" The Divine exhaled a cloud of burning green vapors. Liquid fire oozed through the stone steeples and slender buttes. Like a horizontal veil of boiling plasma, the burning mess rolled after Rainbow.

She threaded her way through columns, whirled around quivering spires, and short forward down an open pass. The ends of her tail hairs curled as the flames caught up. The towers collapsed, raining boulders and chunks of rock down on her frantic flight. Just as the flames enveloped her, Rainbow darted a look to the right. She saw a boulder twice the size of her own body and she swiftly darted towards it. In mid-plummet, she pressed her body towards the north edge of the debris and clung to it. Flame erupted all around her, carrying with it the thunder of unbridled chaos.

Nevlamas stopped flapping her grotesque wings, slowing to a casual glide as she sneered with two grinning jaws at her roasted work. The entire valley smouldered with trailing bits of green ash and pale smoke. Seconds went by, and she saw no corpse. Her slitted eyes darted all about, and a rising growl emanated from her throat.

Unbeknowst to her, far below, a petite equine figure slithered out from the unscorched edge of a fallen boulder. Holding her breath, an unscathed Rainbow Dash darted straight up, ascending in time to fly level with Nevlamas' swinging tail. She burst into starlight, twirled about, and flew up the length of the gliding dragon. Rubbing a hoof across her pendant, she pivoted, aimed down, and fired a solid beam of harmonic energy all across the Divine's leprotic spine.

Nevlamas' scales split open in a straight line with postules of chaotic effluence, and several crystal chunks exploded into dust from her rear to her scalp. The dragon shrieked, and its body undulated like a bucking bronco. Rainbow dodged her bladed shoulders and wingjoints, but was a lot less successful when she tried threading through the Divine's thrashing antlers.

"Ooof!" Rainbow Dash grunted as her body toppeled through the ear, flinging westward towards the eastern face of the ravine. Several dark spots came into focus as she found her balance, hovering dizzily.

In the meantime, Nevlamas, wincing from her wounds, clung to the east wall of the massive canyon. She spun about, nostrils flaring, and fired a pure wall of flame at the pony.

Rainbow looked up. An aerial escape was blocked by a jutting, concave cliffface high above. She looked west. The dark spots along the eastern face of the trenched turned out to be—

"Awwww Luna Poop." She was already flying towards the holes in a desperate attempt to outsoar the fire. When she glided her way into one of the tunnels, she pressed a hoof to her pendant in an attempt to increase her Element's luminosity. She soon discovered she didn't need to; Nevlamas' flame lit up the interior with aquamarine light. Without wasting a millisecond, Rainbow darted forward, bobbing and weaving as she zoomed down junction after junction, blindly navigating the complex web of labyrinthine corridors.

The flames did not let up. They fountained closer and closer to Rainbow's tail, consuming the oxygen that grew staler and staler with each passing second.

"Come on..." Rainbow sweated; Rainbow panted. "Come on! Where's an exit? Where's an—?" She gasped.

A dead end.

As her vision twitched, so did her muzzle, and she sensed a tiny jet of cool air wafting towards her face. Gritting her teeth, Rainbow curled her legs inward and spiraled towards the craggy wall ahead of her like a missile.

"Nnnnnngh!"

She struck solid dirt right as the flames enveloped her.

Comments

[Neon Beat]

Merry Christmas

[Future Regret]

Never trust caves, or anything like them. That is the lesson of the series.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, PEEPS!

[Verlax]

And so, the battle continues... seriously, I have nothing really amazing to say. Hopefully RD will kick Nevlamas butt without big destruction of everything else.

[Zaid ValRoa]

You can do it Rainbow, kick that Divine's ass!

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And merry Christmas, Mr. Colon
And everyone else, too.

[The Casual Bro]

A bunch of Chocolate, some sweaters, a hot cup of cocoa, and a good addition to this series. what else could i ask for?

Merry fucking Christmas, everybody!

[CasualMarshmallow]

Outrunning pursuers must be Rainbow's special talent.

Have a great Hearth's Warming Eve everypony!

[Cynderfall]

Please dont be a toasted pony...

[Amneiger]

You even updated on Christmas, man. I salute your dedication.

[Jonathon Smythe]

Happy Hearth's Warming and Merry Christmas to all of you.

Will Rainbow be able to break through what seems like a solid wall? Find out next time on Odrsjot!

[bassofthe]

Caves. Always caves.

~Basso

[Lightning Bearer]

Man, when you say every day, you mean every day. [Insert deity/cosmic-force/philosophical-ground-of-being of choice here] bless us, every one!

Seconds went by, and she saw no corpse.

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[not_a_rainbow]

Aaawwww sheeeiiiiit
I wish she still had Whitemane's shield spell

Merry Christmas *<:)

[FloydienSlip]

Oh Rainbow, you know better than to fly into cave.

[Booster Spice]

Dash just went into a fractured wall at shockless subsonic speed with just her head? OW.

Drill Missile activate.

[RoboRed]

When she glided her way into one of the tunnels, she pressed a hoof to her pendant in an attempt to increase her Element's luminosity. She soon discovered she didn't need to; Nevlamas' flame lit up the interior with aquamarine light.

*insert involuntary "OHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAP" here*

Well, I expect one of three things to happen here:
1) Doesn't she still have Whitemane's shield as a brief backup here? Surely that should be recharged by now and might by her a brief moment of time.
2) That solid dirt might not have been so solid, and the extra force might have led to a very crispy near-escape.
3) Magic happens. Maybe it's because I've been reading too much fanfiction, but I saw green flame mentioned, and I keep thinking of Spike's green flame. I dunno.

[zaponator]

And then Nev remembered what day it was. She put on her hat and beard, and flew off to deliver presents to all the good little colts and fillies.
Just like that, the world was saved by the magic of Christmas.

[Spectrum]

Years of attempting to evade Pinkie Pie whilst chasing her have honed Rainbows skills. Nevlamas's speed has nothing on Pinkie.

[Psyco Josho]

Rainbow Dash and caves really tend to not mix at all.

Random thought: I wonder if Rainbow Dash and the Noble Jury will ever meet any other Pegasi on their massive journey...

[Nevlamas]

She's still the Divine of Magic. Chaos or now, there should be some nifty spellpower going down soon that is going to wipe out Dash, leave her victorious and give the series an early happy end. Right, guys? Guys?

[Honeytiger]

Yesss lots of fire.

[iloveportalz0r]

>flinging westward towards the eastern face of the ravine
That confuzzled me for a moment

[dashie76]

IIIIIt's Dashie's Second Get-Backing Adventure!!

Oh, shit. That was intense. Did she just fly directly into the freakin' wall? That's...okay, how the heck is she going to make it out of this fix alive? This got really bad really fast. These are my thoughts so far.

-MASH

P.S. Can't let...my sleepiness drag me down...three left...

[Vandratha]

A dead end, eh? And here I was expecting quarry eels.

[Straker]

"Awwww Luna Poop."

Dash! Stop taking the name of Luna's poop in vain XD

[whizzball1]

-Spirit

[JustAnotherTimeLord]

That didn't work out too well, but I'm sure Rainbow's fine.

. . . Right?

[Regidar]

Screwed by the caves yet again! You think she'd learn after a while.

[Seraphimus]

5916063 Man, I'M Starting to hate caves at this point

[Hazard]

The caves would have to be porous, else the flames wouldn't get very far. Science.

[Major Molesto]

3730503 we appreciate it mate

[arancaytar]

undulated like a bucking bronco

For a moment there, I thought you meant the car.

[Tim the Planes-pony]

She struck solid dirt right as the flames enveloped her.

Well, dirt is a flame retardant, so maybe it protected Rainbow

05/26/2017 23:18 UTC

[FOXTrot2]

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Do you also think a mustang is a car?