My Little Pony: The Seal of Death

by Azrael the alicorn

03: The Elements of Harmony

Chapter 3

The Elements of Harmony

The Mane Six ran into the palace, having seen clear evidence that Spike had entered it. They were all hiding behind a pillar to avoid being spotted by Changelings.

“Which way did he go?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“I’m not sure,” said Twilight Sparkle, worry forged into her face.

“Oh, I do hope Spikey Wikey’s is alright,” said Rarity, tears rolling down her eyes over-dramatically.

“Pssst!”

All six of them spun round. Azrael was standing before them behind the same pillar, his expression highly serious.

“I can locate the Glyph of Death,” he whispered. “That’s probably where Spike is, as he must have tried to find Sombra. We need to take it off that evil tyrant before he uses it to take over Equestria.”
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They ran headlong into the vast corridors. Azrael was in the lead, whilst the Mane Six followed. They were being chased by Changelings through the palace who had just noticed them, making shivers go down their spine every second as they tried to outrun them.
Given Azrael’s connection with the Glyph, he could sense its presence and position.

“We can’t slow down!” exclaimed Twilight urgently.

Just then, one of the Changelings lunged at Fluttershy’s tail. She screamed in shock, but before the Changeling could properly damage her, Azrael shot a laser beam out of his horn, blowing the creature to smithereens. However, that unfortunately allowed the other changelings to catch up with them, slowing down when near enough. There was threatening intent in their eyes. The shapeshifters attempted to jump on Azrael, but he shot each of them down with magical lasers. However, for every one he killed, two more came rushing towards him.
Twilight was about to tell Azrael not to fight and that it was a waste of time, but he spoke first.

“Leave me here; I’ll fend them off. Go and find Spike,” he commanded.

Twilight was about to object, but then she realized that this was no time for arguing about the plan.

“And where exactly are we going?” she asked.

“The throne room; now, RUN!” he replied, after blasting a changeling in mid air

The group exchanged unconvinced glances, but obeyed nonetheless.
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Celestia and Luna had lost count of how many enemies had fallen before them, but it still did not seem to be enough. There seemed to be no way to turn the situation in their favor, but then something unexpected happened.

“Discord?” asked Celestia.

Discord had appeared in the middle of the battlefield, his hands on his hips, standing proudly. The army of changelings looked in terror, as the seven foot draconequus bowed to the two sisters.

“You know, I sense that you seem to have a tincy wincy, teeny, tiny, little parasite problem over here,” said the draconequus. He then groaned, stroking his beard as he spoke. “I suppose I’ll have to help you with pest control then, as I’m stupid REFORMED.”

The Changelings slowly started to retreat in fear, but Discord snapped his fingers together, summoning a giant vacuum cleaner. He then clicked his fingers for a second time, and a huge force slowly pulled all of the changelings into the vacuum. They screamed and tried to get away, but it was no use. Within seconds, all of the Changelings outside the building were gone. Discord then clapped his hands together, and gave an annoyed huff.

“You know, having god-like powers makes fights so boring.” He then stroked his beard again, and looked at Celestia and Luna with a grin. He started walking towards them, constantly shifting his gaze. “Quickly, go and help your most faithful student and her little friends Celestia. You wouldn’t want King Sombra to invade Equestria, would you?” He said.

“Discord, this is no laughing matter,” scolded Celestia. “Although we couldn’t thank you enough for coming to help us like that. If you hadn’t have appeared right at that moment, we don’t know what would have happened.” Both of them shared a look, clear with relief.
More Changelings slowly started to walk towards Discord, but he put his hands around his hips and with another snap of his fingers, removed Sombra’s dark clouds. He again summoned his vacuum cleaner calmly, and started sucking in each of the Changelings up one by one.
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The only thing Spike felt was pain, hard, miserable pain. His bones creaked as if they were about to break, his scales were damaged severely, and he felt his flesh burning. At that moment, he was thrown against the wall yet again, adding more pain to the mix. Sombra was beating him for what seemed like an eternity to Spike. Yet, despite the enormous pain that the little dragon felt, he was not willing to be cowed. If he could not stop the tyrant from torturing him, then at least he was denying him the pleasure of hearing him scream.
Chrysalis watched the torment the little dragon was going through and, although she tried not to show it, she was impressed by the will of the little guy. She was also shocked to see how much violence Sombra was pouring on that little being. Since the former ruler of the Crystal Empire had proven to be not dead, the queen had thought they were very similar, especially to their hunger for conquest. But this was a deed that was beyond her evil doing.
Sombra advanced menacingly up in front of the baby dragon, towering above him.

“Twilight and Rarity have nothing to fear from someone like you, you evil bully,” Spike spoke out weakly.

Sombra let out a maniacal laugh. “Do you wish to impress me with your words?” he said, looking at Spike with a hideous grin. “Well, try to impress me when your neck is BROKEN!”

Sombra’s armored hoof slammed against Spike once again. Spike still managed to refrain from screaming in agony, though his resolve was slowly weakening. But suddenly, the evil king looked out of the window, seeing the sky’s light again, and hearing a loud voice talking to himself. He showed a look of apprehension, and temporarily turned away from Spike, facing Chrysalis.

“Mhm, it seems that Discord has arrived,” he said. “Chrysalis, do me a favor and go and try your new toy on him, would you?”

The Queen of the Changelings obeyed, disappearing with a bright red light.
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Twilight and her friends came rushing into the throne room, and with fear and anger, found Sombra torturing Spike on the ground. He had his hoof on his head, ready to crush his skull. The Mane Six were angry beyond all measure, but a tough energy barrier stopped them from rescuing their friend.
Rarity, Fluttershy, and Twilight screamed in pure rage at the dark tyrant; but the more they screamed, the more he cackled.

“How dare you treat Spike that way?!” cried the white unicorn, tears streaming out of her eyes.

“He’s just an innocent baby dragon!” shouted Fluttershy uncharacteristically. “I'll do a lot worse to you King Sombra, believe me!”
Sombra raised the baby dragon with his magic. “I intend to take the soul of this parasite... unless you can stop me,” he said. A wicked grin merged into his face.

Twilight spread out her wings, and for a couple of seconds, she charged her magic, getting ready to strike the barrier. She then let out a huge magical laser, it coming into contact with the barrier with immense force, letting out a huge boom. However, nothing happened. She had drained all of her energy for nothing. She collapsed onto the floor, tears streaming down her face. Applejack saw what had happened and ran up towards her, putting a hoof on her shoulder.

“Twi, I know ya wanna save Spike, and teach a mighty lesson to that tyrant,” she said. “But remember what Azrael said now. Sombra possesses an amount of power that we can’t even think to compare to.”

“I’d say this baby dragon will reach a premature end today,” Sombra said coldly through the barrier, still holding Spike in his magical grasp.

“No, Sombra,” Twilight said suddenly. The purple alicorn slowly got herself to her hooves, ignoring what Applejack had just said. She had malice as cold as ice in her voice, and a highly determined and lethal expression on her face. “Because we have the Elements of Harmony.”

Twilight cast a counterspell on the Elements for them to stop being invisible, then handed all of her friends their respective elements with her magic.

“Come on girls, let's show him what were made of,” she said.

“Right,” they all said in unison.

“Well, I suppose it's our best chance of beating’ that monster,” said Applejack quietly.

Slowly, they all arranged into attack formation. Twilight was at the front, while the others were neatly by her side or behind her. Within seconds, every element aside from Twilight's started glowing; lasers the shape of their amulet spitting out of them. After a couple of seconds, a magical field started to appear around the Mane Six, and they started floating into the air.

“Go on,” taunted Sombra.

A rainbow suddenly shot out of the magical field containing the Mane Six. It struck the barrier like an arrow, penetrating it. The mane six and Spike watched Sombra be wrapped up by the rainbow, triumph clear in their eyes. At that moment, Azrael followed by Celestia and Luna came rushing into the room, panting.

“Sombra was hit with the Elements, we won!,” shouted Twilight, her face forming into a smile.

The rest of the Mane Six agreed.

“Yeah, we blasted that monster into smithereens,” said Rainbow Dash, flying around the room hyperactively.

“NO!” said Azrael, more seriously than the Mane Six had ever heard him speak.

The Mane Six watched in horror as they heard a maniacal laugh coming from the center of the rainbow tornado.

“Sorry to disappoint, but I'm afraid your little elements won't work on me,” the rainbow tornado said.

The rainbow suddenly disappeared. In it's place was King Sombra—undamaged.
The Mane Six huddled together, fear present on every one of their faces. Sombra left Spike on the floor at the other side of the room, and walked over to the Mane Six as the barrier was now broken.
His shadow covered the Mane Six and the alicorns, and he let out a extremely loud maniacal laugh.

Author's Note:

Things are about to get ugly for our friends!
Credits to Arctofire and JJ (Jarvy Jared) for the translation and the proofreading!

Comments

[King Leoric]

So... when will Death come into the story?

[Azrael the alicorn]

5970403 You shall be patient, my friend. Death will come, but not so soon. When Death will appaer is gonna be appaer like a boss

[King Leoric]

5970465 that a releef.

[Dark Colt Sabata]

This situation in a nutshell.

[Azrael the alicorn]

5976950 So do you like it?

[Dark Colt Sabata]

5977143 You got me interested, your writing has also improved quite a bit.

[Azrael the alicorn]

5977206 Thanks, your opinion means a lot !

[Azrael the alicorn]

5972178 And im sure you're gonna like who's gonna voice him

[King Leoric]

5977914 huh? Please explain.