Come on xD 2800 hits on the first part and I barely get 10 for chapter 1? No fair O.
However, I do realize that its JUST chapter one, and I havent posted anything in a week or two. Therefore... meh Ill do this next one to get on with it right away.
Anyway... so we're all good up until now right? ^^ We know what's happening? All informed? I hope so. I don't feel like doing another recap. I will say this... damn son, Umek got... OWNED.
Anyhooves, back to the story right away, dont feel like typing much of an Author's Note right now.
Umek Scythe/Dark Sovereign Appearence: http: / gaveniterix. deviantart. com /gallery /#/ d4xxwpv (Remove Spaces!)
When the dust cleared, the hulking pile of rubble remained, finally. The stone statues gathered around it still, and the two Zebras stood amongst them.
It was the stronger one, Twilight still watched out for... he unsettled her. She at first mistook them both for Canterlot Guards... but no Guard in Canterlot was ever a Zebra... and certainly wouldn't be standing amidst a small army of stone creatures!
With a soft grimace of her own, she began to trot forward. How dare they threaten her new sister!
"Twilight Sparkle!", the words of Celestia stopped her in her tracks, she was halfway there, "No.", she commanded, broad... but hinted with despair.
Luna hopped down to the bottom of the alter, "Everypony!", she called out, turning, and powering up her magic, "Leave this place!", she commanded them, "Flee!", she added, blasting a large gap in the marble wall.
Celestia turned back from Luna to gaze upon the pile of rubble in the distance, her horn now glowing a sunny yellow. "We must prepare ourselves.", she told those around her, looking upon her apprentice, "Twilight Sparkle, if anything happens that is not within my control... You must mend my mistake for me.", she spread her wings, giving a soft wingbeat in preparation.
"Sister, could they undertake such a task?", Luna regrouped with them as the grounds had almost completely gone, leaving them all... and the guards... to the situation at hand.
"Uh what exactly is going on?", Twilight asked, a hoof raised as she nervously looked back and forth between the statues, and the Princess.
The dark Zebra in the distance suddenly hopped off the rubble, and shifted about in his armor... a long, very sharp appearing object released from along his back, floating out in front of him as he started to approach.
The purple mare gasped quietly, and got to her ready position, "Halt! In the name of Celestia don't get any-"
"Closer!", Shining Armor finished. He loved Cadence, and he hated leaving her side... but a threat was at hand... he had to leave her just for a while. He stood beside his young sister, his horn raised, and ready to defend agaisnt this rising opponent. However his eyes softened, and he raised a hoof in surprise... recognition sure could change the tides of battle.
"Shining Armor!", the black Zebra accused, spinning the floated spear in the air, before pointed it outward, and steadying his grip... yet... he had no horn to lift it! The blade must have been magical itself, "Whats the matter?", he asked deeply, "Surprised to see ME?", his long mohawk breezed violently in the wind.
"Black Knight?", the white stallion breathed, regaining his posture, "What are you doing here?", he cleared his throat.
"Only one thing.", the Zebra stopped a mere two meters away, "I'm here for you.", he rumbled.
Twilight stepped forward, her horn glowing, "I don't know who you are, or what this is about! But if you lay a hoof on my brother! I'll-.. I'll!-"
The ground began to shake, and shudder, stopping everyone in their tracks. While the two strong warriors faced off, they suddenly looked back to the rubble. The quake lasted a single few seconds... But they seemed to all know where it was coming from.
Black Knight turned back, and he readied his blade for... defense, as he began to back off, "Looks like we're back on schedule.", he muttered, almost as though he was upset he couldnt take his own measures, "You got lucky...", he told them.
Luna frowned from the alter, "Dear sister, what does thou wish?", she herself did not know what to do.
"There is only one thing we can do.", she closed her eyes, readying herself... she appeared quite determined now, "We must protect our subjects from Umek.", she spread her wings, and waited for the rubble to rise.
"But sister! What of the elements?", it seemed her question would remained unanswered.
The rubble pusled, a crackling of dark energy, and a swarm of wind, and bent light careened all around it, "Tsk Tsk!", his voice warned, "I'm almost dissapointed in you Celestia."
The debris suddenly sprung upright from the center, tossing chunks of rubble aside... it was not a horn, nor a hoof that broke the surface. It was a wing... spreading widely over the marble ruin. IT was old, torn, pierced, and holed.
Celestia, and her younger sister gasped visibly, yet no audible sound.
Twilight, and Shining Armor gave a sudden retreat, hooves raised in surprise! They gave up about two feet of ground with the startled leap backwards.
"What in-... Tarnation?", Applejack's voice sounded abysmal... filled with surprise, and confusion.
"W-Whoa...", Rainbow Dash hadn't ever seen this before... for something to just sprout wings like this? She wasn't fearful... but she was definitely taken back.
"Make it stop!", Fluttershy cowered off to the side.
Bursting upwards with a slowed pace, but still moving the rocks, and stones off of him without too much trouble, the old Unicorn, now made some... strange Alicorn? He stepped forward, "Rrrr!", he grunted, and stood tall, "I despise a sucker-punch, dear Celestia... perhaps a punishment is in order.", he rumbled, his mane, and long beard began to breeze wildly, left and right.
His hide began to expand, and with one tear of the coat, a second wing sprouted, rising form the folds, and spread wide... eveloping the entrance of Ceremony Plaza with two large, and dragonic wings. They matched his dark tan color with a much darkershade... and they appeared with a black-purple tiny... which gleamed in the lacking light of day.
He had made it Twilight.
"Come Celestia, Luna!", he whipped out his right wing, and drew it back with a harsh grip, "I haven't got forever!...", his voice had gotten more upet by the minute, as opposed to his very calm tone minutes ago.
Both sister exchanged glances, before turning back to him, they closed their eyes softly, and began to step down the alter...
"Princess, wait-"
"No Shining Armor... This is our battle... he is here for us.", her horn begn to glow as she opened her eyes fiercely upon Umekile.
"We, and thy sister shall protect Equestria! No matter the cost!", Luna spread her wings, her teeth grit as she gazed down toward the new Alicorn, "Evil shall be smote this day!", she raised her hoof into the air, and readied herself... oh she prayed for the best.
"But Princess Celestia!", Twilight called out.
"Twilight Sparkle... stand back...", she spread her wings, and suddenly Celestia picked herself up into the air. Her horn sparking, and she readied for the old equine's next move.
Dark Sovereign as he preferred to be named... smiled, and took a beat of his own wings, "Good...", he mumbled, his long blade horn raising up as he stared upon the strongest Alicorn in Equestria, "I shall remember many things upon this fiery finale."
"Sister... thy shall take him together?", Luna asked, her horn began to glow as well, she looked away for a moment... the word "Remember" in her heart.
"Yes Luna... together-", her sentence was cut short, her eyes widened in fright as she lashed forward with a beam of magic.
It collided with one of Umek's own... a bright sun-gold, agaisnt a dark black-purple. Unlike the determination Celestia conjured when she fought Queen Chrysalis... this time she was the one who grunted, slowly moving backwards in the air, "L-Luna!"
"Sister, I am here!", the younger sibling hopped forward, and her horn glowed the dark moonlight blue... pulsing outward.
With eyes as blue as the deep ocean, Umek widened with a sudden grunt, grinding backwards along the ground, his beam cut short, dissipating in the air, as Celestia's wildly flew forward, grinding up the ground before coming to an abrupt end.
With a smoking chest, the older Alicorn lowered his head, his long bladed horn hot with magic, he gazed at the scorch, before raising his head, and looking upon Luna, "Surely there is more?", he asked with a deep voice, "I taught you better!", he turned right, and raised his left wing, "Have a seat Luna! It is time for a new lesson!", with a rigorous gesture of his wing, spreading out as he flicked it toward her, a wave of power could only go one direction.
"Luna!", Celestia cried too late.
"AH!", Luna was caught off guard, her hooves raised, sending her at first sliding backward, until she lost her balance, and began to roll, "Ahh!...", she curled up at first, hiding her face in contorted pain.
"Luna!", Twilight shouted, suddenly moving forward.
"Twilight... Stay... back.", the princess of the night began to rise again.
"Oh come now, I hardly touched you!", The dark Alicorn inquired, turning back to face Celestia, "I almost feel bad!", he spread his wings, the membrane limply tightening, and readying for flight, "You know me! Do not ignore the past!"
Celestia looked away, "Umek! Enough! Please, hear me!", she charged up her horn again.
"I hear you, Celestia... But that is not my name!", with his horn crackling up again, the air grew stale around him, and he released another attack, a second beam of dark magic.
This time the Princess swooned left, nearly hit, her multi-color tail had been scorched at it's very tip... she had dodged the attack... watching it shoot out into the sky... where it reached it's distance, and created a wave of nova-looking energy across the grey sky... dark red, and muggy-looking in color.
Now was her turn, Celestia turned back, and took a hard beat of her wings, "Enough!", she commanded, horn glowing bright gold... a orb of light gathering around her... it was time to end the fight here and now.
Umek slowly agaped as he watched her careen in from his right, raising his wing to block her... but it was useless... When Celestia impacted agaisnt him... she stopped.. but Umek was sent tumbling across the ground, into the column area... which was now dark by all shadows, and no sun.
With a spread of her own wings, the bubble disappeared, and she stepped forward.
Luna slowly joined her, "Did it work... sister?", she couldn't sense anything.
"He has not yet risen.", she told her, gazing into the now smokey, and torn up shadows... she had whalloped the older equine quite hard... enough to break him through a marble column.
Their eyes widened, in full fright, as a wave of dark purple matter flared out agaisnt them... dodging strange crackling forms of dark light, and powerful magic... their manes were sent whipping wildly in the air, she could see Umek's form inside.
He rose off the ground, and suddenly spread his wings, "RAH!", he boomed, another wave, before he raised, and beat down, with strong, malicious thrusts of his wings... the ceiling of the column area broke upward, and soon, they could see him rising into the air.
"Fear me!", he commanded, he despised being brushed off like that... how dare Celestia, "Come forth, So that I may END you!", his ancient voice echoed across the sky.
Twilight Sparkle, and the rest of her friends gazed up in sheer awe... this Alicorn! He was... so strong!
"Twilight, Dear, perhaps it is best we leave this place?", Rarity asked.
"Are you crazy Rarity?", Twilgiht replied, looking back at her, "We can't leave the Princesses like this!"
"Twilight... she's right.", Shining Armor put a hoof in front of her, "We don't stand a chance agaisnt him... haven't you been watching?", he didn't stay in front of her for long... he soon returned to Cadence, who had now just awoken, "We have to go.", he told her, picking up his injured wife.
"But Princess Celestia needs us!", Rainbow Dash shouted, pointing up at the sky, "We can help them!"
"Naw hold on'a sec their sugar cube! We ain't gotta clue as ta how we could even face off agaisnt him!", Applejack stepped forward, ready to stop Dash if she attempted to leave, lasso attached to her saddle.
Pinkie Pie was off in the background, watching her tail twitch as she avoided falling debris, "Whoops! Look out! Missed me!", she cried.
Twilight Sparkle lowered her eyes, before perking, "The Elements of Harmony!"
SEEEER! A violent cut of magic arched across the sky, both Princesses raising their horns, and created their own shields, blocking it, but the power sent them foating backwards.
"Sister! He is far too strong!", Luna called out to Celestia.
"I know Luna... but together, we are stronger!", she beat her wings and flew forward, and up to meet Umek once again. They stopped, looking up at him as they all flew high above the rooftops of Canterlot, "Umekile! Don't make us have to hurt you!"
Dark Sovereign hovered above them, looking down, "Ohhhh... sweet girl... I'm happy you concern my safety before your own...", he looked at his hoof, looking himself over for damage. He chuckled, "But I would be more worried of yourselves.", he told her.
"We are not afraid of you anymore, Umek!", Celestia replied... however...
With a very content laugh, the wings of the Demon Alicorn took another beat, "Oh I think you very well are... or perhaps... it is more of a guilt issue?", he leaned forward, a smile on his face, "Delicious.", he told her, before looking over them both, and giving another strong beat, "You may have had the power to defeat me once, but you don't have it now! And you both know it is true!", he spoke harshly, not confidently, his chin beard breezing in the powerful winds the three created, "Like a forest... you shall all be defenseless before my fire.", he turned, his horn glowing... raising it higher in the air, "Feel my wrath!", he growled. He struck down, and created yet another beam of dark magic.
"Celestia!", Luna called out.
"I know!", their horns both glowed simultaneously, and this time... they both struck forward... and both smashed agaisnt Umek's attack.
"Ah!", the old Unicorn didn't expect that, he closed an eye, "Rrrr!", he took harder beats of his wings, "No no no!", he began to shout... it was working.
"Sister!", Luna cried with a smile as they began to ascend above Umek this time.
"Keep it stable!", Celestia told her, her eyes full of determination... could it be? Umekile was failing! They were beating Dark Sovereign!
Midnight Blue, and Sun Gold magic began to overpower the evil Abysmal Purple energy, their waves began to falter, and fly, creating loose arcs of light, bending the air with heat, or cooling it down...
"Egggghhh!", Sovereign began to descend, "What is this?", he demanded, his Ocean blue eyes opened wide... his beam failed- smash, "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!~", he was sent screeching down through the air, both Celestia's and Luna's energies blaring into him, striking him in one direction... INTO a tower atop the palace. He flew in, and out the other side, tearing up smoke, and fire, before he was sent screeching down into the city... the two beams loosing range, and dying away as he dissapeared, smoke, and explosions trailing along the ground in which he ripped through...
His distance ended when he breached the front columns of city hall... having destroyed it's plaza, and taking a good chunk of the statues indie the fountain. Crowds of Ponies were now panicking below as they were trying to comprehend what exactly was happening!
A gaping hole now in the front of a once solid building, with a path of remarkable destruction behind it.
To the joy of the Princesses, not a single pony had been seriously hurt from what they could tell... they began to fly down.
Transition~
While the dark Alicorn had been repelled, and the two sisters of night and day seemingly victorious, Twilight Sparkle let out a sigh of relief.
She and her friends turned back to the front entrace of Ceremony Plaza... and there they seemed to forget what was blocking the path.
The royal guards had not been able to get through the barriers! They were still there, and the statues of old had now... unexpectedly, begun to make their way inside, their eyes burning with magic that brought them to life. Leading them were the two Zebras, both in gold armor, yet the strongest with the magical spear...
"Twi! What'a we do?", Applejack asked her, stepping up beside her along with everyone else.
"We have to take out the statues... they're probably more dangerous than the Zebra's anyway!", she replied, rubbing her hoof on the ground.
"Twilly, wait!", Shining Armor called out as he, with help from Rarity... were trying to revive the sleeping princess Cadence, "Don't underestimate the darker zebra!", he stood, "Help her... I have to help my sister...", he told Rarity.
"Of course, eh... I'll be here!", the white mare nodded rigorously.
Black Knight, the dark Zebra stopped meters before them, and waved the floting blade. With that simple gesture, the statues halted on command, motionless.
Scare Crow... the lesser warrior stood behind, and off to the side, dressed in armor, a grin on his face... he was ready for a brawl, "This is all we get?", he snapped though... dissapointed! They were all mares!
"Come again?", Applejack stepped forward, "I reckon that was one uh them gender mockins.", she narrowed her eyes.
Seemed legit, the Zebra accepted her stand-off, "And why wouldnt it be?", Scare Crow asked, butting noses with her. HE retreated oddly when Dash barged in.
"Hey, Watch it stripes!", she poked him hard with her hoof.
Twilight glared up at Black Knight, who gazed down upon her with his cold, green, reptilian eyes, "Mmm!", he grunted, and suddenly spun the blade, and aimed it inches from her, "Stand back, mare!", he commanded quite coldly, "Bring me the stallion!", he ordered.
Fluttershy was behind Twilight, and she whimpered, "Um... I... I can get him..."
"Fluttershy, now ISN'T the time!", Twilight looked down uneasily at the spear, before she was pushed aside gently.
"Black Knight.", Shining Armor called him.
"Shining Armor!", he smiled, and retreived his weapon, pulling it back, and stepping forward, "I have been waiting a long time for this day to come!"
"I can't believe you're still jealous of me!", the stallion retorted.
"It was supposed to be me!", he growled, his eyes narrowing, "I was supposed to be Captain! Not you! I was going to be the first Zebra to be Captain of the Royal Guard! NOT another Stallion! I was supposed to surpass Titan Fortitude! Not you!", he grit his teeth.
"That doesn't amount for a reason why you're here!", Shining Armor retorted.
He growled, "Rrrr! I can't go home because of you! I am a disgrace to my family! Honor, Shining Armor! And Pride! I lost it when you stepped forward at that Ceremony, and Not me!", his deep voice boomed over him, his slick mohawk whipping in the wind, "Dark Sovereign gave me a chance to amount for my mistake, though...", he smiled deeply, "How could I have resisted..."
"Turn around Knight, and go home!", Shining Armor stomped his hoof, eyes narrowed.
"Oh? Thought you'd say that...", he snorted, stepping back and readying...
"Don't do this Knight...", the white Stallion narrowed his eyes, hunkering just a little... he wanted to have a chance to defend if he actually attacked, "Once you do, you can't go back."
"Too long gone now.", he retorted.
"You have to go through both of us then!", Twilight butted in, stepping up beside her brother, "If you touch my brother, you'll regret it!", her horn glowed in response... the Zebra didn't have magic... how hard could he be.
His eyes narrowed with a confident grin, "Fine...", he replied as they all numbered up on him, "Then I guess I gotta seperate you all first...", he turned, "Fire!", he shouted- FWOOSH!
The five of the Mane Six beside Shining Armor suddenly gasped in surprise, having to jump off away from the right side, as the fire barrier set earlier came alive, blazing outward, generating walls, or whipping at them to get them to scatter.
"Whoa!", Rainbow ducked, and dodged, the tip of her tail catching fire, "WHA!", she fled in every direction.
Applejack ducked, and backed off, "Not good!", she frowned, shaking her head.
Pinkie Pie squealed, as her and Fluttershy hid under one of the most random of boxes.
Twilight shielding herself, backing off as she and her brother became seperated... she gasped, "No! Shining Armor!", she called out. She pressed up agaisnt the baby blue magic wall. And stopped, it's touch felt... familiar. She suddenly ducked, gritting her teeth, and wincing.
"Ha! So the Ponyville Unicorn manages to become savior of Equestria again? Huh?", that voice... it was so obvious! Yet so surprising!
"Trixie?", Twilight looked behind her as the blue magic spread aside, giving her a full view of the blue Unicorn, in her most self-indulging wears.
"Yes... Tis I!", she announced, "The Great, and Powerful Trixie!", she didnt need cheap fireworks, behind her, her fabulous horn glowed, moving her mane in the wind, and creating a dazling serious of small explosions. She soon ended, and smirked, "And this time... Trixie's not here to boast.", her hat tipped up, and her horn became exposed, "Trixie's here for different reasons!", it began to glow, and suddenly, she blasted Twilight off her feet.
"Ah!", crash, she skid to the floor, her eyes spanning out before she shook her head, "Ugh!", she rubbed herself, and slowly got up, "Trixie! I know you're upset that I upstaged you! And I'm sorry! But why go to these extremes?", she asked softly.
"Hm? Simple.", she smiled darkly, charging up her horn again... but this time... Twilight blasted as well, created a small explosion between the two of them, "Trixie's going to show ALL of Equestria how far more powerful she is than Twilight Sparkle... no matter the cost!", she grinned, her eye twitching rapidly.
Transition~
"Sister... does thou believe him to be defeated?", Luna asked, gesturing into the gaping hole.
"Even Umek would be injured after an attack so strong.", she replied, beating her wings softly as they landed... the numerous city guards joining around them... some were even up in the wreck of City hall... now crowds had begun to gather.
"Do you think it is right to allow Canterlot citizens to witness such carnage?"
Celestia sighed, "I'm afraid stopping them is far out of our reach by now, sister...", she lowered her horn, and suddenly it flashed brightly... she began to scan the rubble. It had been quiet for too long... and even the goddess of the sun and light began to worry if they'd overdone their blow.
Luna began to frown, "Is he... present?", she asked.
Celestia kept scanning, before she lowered her head bitterly, "I'm afraid I cannot find him...", her eyes closed... but then sprung open, "Luna!", she whipped her head around, as did her sister.
The crowds gasped, and the guards went agape with sudden fright!
Behind the two sister... only feet away, his wings spread widely, his horn raised in the air, dust risen almost instantaneously, "Why Celestia... I'm right here.", he told them, the blade began to crackle, and flare wildly, "Now... where were we?", he asked.
"Umek!", Luna cried.
"Luna!", Celestia lashed out her hoof as the powerful sweep of the horn came around... she repelled her sister... however Celestia could not save herself. She was batted aside, and along the ground... though surprisingly... not as hard as she had done to Umek.
"Big Sister, no!", Luna cried out, her hooves curled into her, like she was laying on a pillow, watching helplessly. She closed her eyes as she began to stand.
The guards rushed down in full droves, "Protect the Princesses!", one order.
When they were mere meters on Dark Sovereign, a blink of his eyes, and a dark, pulsing wave of magic... they were thrown away, in fact... for fifty yards all around him, Luna, and Celestia... had been cleared of all legitimate threats. He closed his eyes, and sighed softly... landing and folding his terrifying wings, "Ohh Luna...", he approached suddenly, but he grit his teeth, "No.", he told himself... but he did not stop.
The Princess of the night didn't raise her head... she was having a bad memory... like... this had all happened before, "Umekile... why?", she asked. She looked up suddenly as her shoulder was tapped by the sharp horn. Her eyes were just watery, slowly opening, and blinking with fear.
"Because...", he told her... his voice growing weak, and old, "Because I have no choice.", he whispered in response, "Dear Luna..."
"...Umekile?", she asked, narrowing her eyes, and tilting her head... trying to stare into his eyes.
But then, he closed them, and stood tall, "But it seems like it's time to end this.", his tone changed drastically.
Luna's hopeful experession changed dramatically, "Umek, no...", she begged.
He smiled, but it seemed bitter in more ways than one, "Oh don't worry... you won't feel a thing.", he told her, his horn began to blare wildly, pulsing into the air... charging itself.
"Umek...", a tear rolled down her cheek...
However, rather than smack her aside like Celestia... this one waved around her, moving through her... her eyes glowed widely with shock, before Princess Luna suddenly collapsed onto her side... limp as thread.
The guards were all around, agape with awe, and fear... but they grew determined again... they regrouped.
"Ah ah...", Umekile turned around, "Wouldn't want your armor ruined.", he told them... his eyes, and horn flashed... childs-play.
Behind the guards... to their realization... they bean to gather closer to Umek... only now they faced the other way. Through the streets, and spreading out the crowds, sending all fleeing into their homes... were statues. Their eyes all glowing different colors, flaring in the growing darkness as they cornered the mass of soldiers.
Umek raised himself, his horn glowing... he began to pick up the Princesses, and with many hard beats of his wings... he took off from amongst the distracted colts, and warriors... flying high into the sky.
"Canterlot is Mine!", he commanded darkly, his horn pulsing out, and sending a shock-wave that rocked the forests all around, shaking the mountainside, and turning the clouds even dark gray, and blue. A roll of thunder, and soon... the light faded entirely from the sky... While the city shrieked, and screamed, only a few were left to sight for their freedom.
The Princess of the Sun, and the Princess of the Moon... have fallen.
End chapter 2 O.o... R&R! :D
