The fight with Minucorn comes to an end
A Life To Share
Chapter 3- Trust
Twilight looked back toward her wounded friend with a mix of sadness, concern, and anger. She lifted up her horn and placed it on top of Fluttershy as it started to glow and connect to the girls heart.
"Rarity, come here, I need your help," Twilight called, and Rarity listened. "I need you to help me heal Fluttershy's wound. Just put your horn over her heart, like me, and focus your magic on keeping it stable."
"Uh, Okay." Rarity did as Twilight said and started to shine her horn over Flutershy's heart while Twilight began to walk away. Rarity didn't know what Twilight was doing.
"Don't move from there, if you do, Fluttershy will die." Rarity grew scared again and focused back on Fluttershy. Twilight walked towards Spike. "Spike…," she kneeled down and hugged him, "…thank-you… for being such a great assistant."
"Twilight…" Spike said, "...What's going on?"
"Do you remember the time after the Sombra incident? The spell I learned?"
"Spell, what… no, Twilight that's crazy; there has to be another way. What about the elements?"
"There in Canterlot," Twilight let him go, "and even if they were here, does Fluttershy look like she could use them?" Spike looked over towards Fluttershy, still unconscious and bleeding. "I have to do this." Twilight started walking away.
"Wait Twilight…" Spike reached for her, but Twilight cast another spell, this one forcing Spike to halt in his tracks. "What the… I can't move. Twilight!"She walked away. "Twilight, please don't do this!"
Back in the battle, Minucorn actually started to look a little shaken. Seeing this, Rainbow Dash flew off a ways' before doubling-back and darting right for the sorcerer. He tried attacking to counter her, but was halted by the binding of Applejack's lasso.
"Gotcha'!" Applejack exclaimed. "Now Rainbow!"
Rainbow Dash heared her, increasing her speed and electrical output until a large air pocket formed around her. "Eat this!" she screamed as the pocket broke and a large sonic-boom sounded as she continued forward, a long rainbow trial following close behind. Once it hit, Rainbow's circit completed, forcing the electrical energy to explode and engultf them all in a cloud of dust and static. Once the dust cleared, the results visible were less than favored. Rainbow Dash had halted inches from Minucorn's sheild as his eyes began to glow a far more intense red.
"What the?" Rainbow Dash said
"That aint' possible," said Applejack
Minucorn looked AJ's way, as she started to lift into the air while her lasso was disintegrated. With a flick of his head, he throw the two again, dropping them near the girls and turning away with no farther thought wasted on the two.
"This guy's unreal," Applejack said as she tried to get back up.
"I don't care… I'm not quitting," Rainbow said, flying back into the air.
"Yes you are," Twilight said as she walked beside the two.
"Wait, what did ya…" Before Applejack could finish, Twilight had used her magic to freeze her and Rainbow, just as she had done to Spike.
"Hey Twi, what gives?" Rainbow cried.
"Just let me handle this." Twilight kept walking away.
"What are you talkin' 'bout, how are ya goin' to beat him alone," Applejack yelled.
"I have ways."
"How the hay is she…," Rainbow tried to say.
"You have to stop her!" Spike interrupted, "Please, if you don't do something, Twilight's going to die!"
"Die!?" Rainbow was taken back by the by Spikes words. "Yo... you don't know that for sure!"
"Listen, Twilight never told anyone this, but after the events in the Crystal Empire, she was way more upset that she couldn't beat Sombra than she let on. Afterwards, she looked for a spell that could make her stronger, and the one she found could make her magic a lot more powerful, but at a price. No-pony that has ever cast that spell has survived afterwards!"
"What! Why In All of Equestria Would She Use a Spell Like That?!" Rainbow Dash screamed back.
"Because…its Twilight…" Fluttershy said, finally out of her coma, and causing the rest to look her way. "Twilight wants to protect us. To her, if she can do that, she doesn't care if she loses her own life in the process, as long as we're safe."
Twilight walked up to Minucorn and got ready. "(I'm sorry girls...,)" she thought in silence, "(...but there's just no other way.") Her horn began to glow brighter and brighter, until her whole body began to shine along with it, and she was sent floating into the air.
Minucorn sensed the massive energy source and looked her way, seeing her body glow and her eyes shining with a pure white light. Minucorn smiled a cocky smile as his own eyes began to glow again.
"That's the spell," Spike said worried, "someone has to do something!"
"We can't move, how do we stop her?" Rainbow asked
"We had betta thank of somethin' fast." Applejack answered
"I can't do anything; I'm the only one keeping Fluttershy alive right now." Rarity stated
"Twilight…" Fluttershy grunted, still in a lot of pain.
Back in the Town hall...
"Man what is taking them all so long," Pinkie said while looking out the back door. "Don't those girls know that not even a Pinkie party can start until the guest of honor arrives." She started looking down the street, in hopes of see her friends somewhere, when her eye caught the sight of an intense light show in the distance. "Wow, what a crazy light show." she began to run towards the lights to see what could be making them.
"Twilight, stop this. Cancel the spell!" Rainbow shouted as loud as she could. The rest started shouting similar notions, but Twilight didn't even bother looking their way.
"I'm ending this," she said, raising her horned arm to the sky. "I don't care what it costs me. " the magic energy in her horn started to shine with an intensity it never had before. Minucorn gave another cocky smile as he pointed one of his marked palms toward her and charged another red-magic orb.
"This isn't good, She aint' listenin' to a word we say." Applejack said
"There has to be something we can…," before Rainbow Dash could finish that sentence, she was interrupted by her pink friend.
"Oh, girls, there you are," Pinkie said. "It's about time I found you. Do you know how long you kept the party waiting?"
"Pinkie?" said Applejack. "Where did ya… never mind, listen Pinkie, we need ya ta…"
"Hey girls, why are you all just sitting on the ground? Except you Rainbow, you're kind of just sitting in the air."
"Pinkie, listen, it's about Twilight, she's…"
"Oh yeah, isn't that her in front of that shiny guy? Oh that reminds me, there's something that I wanted to ask him. Wait here girls, I'll be right back." She ran over to the battle sight, despite her friend's desperately shouting in attempts to stop her.
"Hello, excuse me, Mr. glow-y guy, can I please have your attention please?" Pinkie's call got the attention of Minucorn and Twilight.
"Pinkie!" Twilight shouted in surprise.
"Hello there, I just wanted to ask you something." Minucorn got a little closer to the pink-girl. "That's a pretty cool light show you're doing right now. You see, me and my friends are kind of throwing a little party for our good friend Fluttershy, well actually it's more like a major-awesome-appreciation-Pinkie-party, and when I saw that show of yours, I started to think, 'do you know what would make this party even more majorly-awesome… a fire works show,' and since you seem to be pretty good at that, I was thinking that you would be the perfect person to do it. So what do you say? You're more than welcome to come and enjoy the rest of the party as well of course, and you know what they say, 'there aint' no party like a Pinkie Pie Party'."
"Pinkie! this is not some random circus performer!" Twilight yelled. "You are talking to an evil wizard who is trying to…"
"Sure," Minucorn answered. All of the girls were in shock that he actually spoke and agreed to her proposal.
"Really! You'll really come to the party and do that awesome show for every-pony." Pinkie said in excitement.
"Of course, who could say no to a party, especially a Pinkie Party? It sounds like great fun."
"Yeah it does!"
"In fact, why don't I give you an example of my... display." Minucorn held his hand to Pinkies face and started charging it again.
"Ooooo, shiny." Pinkie looked on in wonder.
"Pinkie, Move!" Twilight shouted, causing her to loose her focus on her spells, and freeing her friends.
"Hey," Applejack said, "ah can move again"
"Well then let's go," Rainbow said as she activated her Buccaneer Blaze again, aiming it directly toward Twilight while Applejack ran to Pinkie Pie.
"Damn it! You're not going to hurt any more of my friends!" Twilight tried to blast Minucorn out of the air, but was hit out herself by a speeding Rainbow Dash. As Minucorn fired his blast at Pinkie, she managed to be pushed out of the way as well, this time by Applejack.
Rainbow and Twilight landed to the side, with Rainbow pinning Twilight down to the ground.
"Rainbow, what are you doing?!" Twilight yelled. "Just let me handle this; none of you can defeat him; I'm the only one who has any chance! It has to be me who takes him down!"
Rainbow Dash pulled back one of her arms, balled her fist and punched Twilight square in the cheek. The sensation caused Twilight to drop her spell while Rainbow dropped her field.
"You idiot," Rainbow said. "You… DAMN IDIOT! Just what the hay' where you trying to prove with that little stunt!? What in Equestria makes you think that we would want to beat this thing so badly that we would actually risk losing you in the process!?" Rainbow started to tear up. "The whole reason we're fighting him in the first place is because he's trying to hurt our town… all of our friends, so do you think we can really call it a win if we lose one of our best friends in the process?"
Twilight looked over to her friends and notices that Spike, Rarity and the now awake Fluttershy all had tears in their eyes as well; Applejack had told Pinkie what had happened and she started to look Twilights way, tearing up now too, while Applejack just gave her a stare of disappointment. The sight started bringing Twilight to tears herself.
"Alright, maybe we messed up on some party, maybe we got caught up in something's that made us ditch you when you needed us, but don't think that means that you can't trust us to help when it really counts. So don't you ever try taking things into your own hooves like that again. and I swear to Celestia, if you ever really do jump the gun like that, I will follow you to death and kick your ass all the way back to Equestria if I have to." Rainbow gave a small smile at her own statement.
Twilight didn't know what to say.
"She's correct you know." Twilight heard a familiar voice coming from behind her and looked to see who it was. Who she saw was a tall woman with long, light, muti-colored hair, wearing a white dress and gold crown; the mark of a large sun was emblemed on her shoulders. Next to her was a shorter woman with dark-blue hair, wearing a black-frilled dress and black tiara; the mark of a moon, surrounded by the night sky, was emblemed on her shoulder. They both had both a long horn on there left arms and wings on there ankles and where flying just above Twilight's head.
"Princess Celestia? Princess Luna? How did you…?" Twilight said in shock and ahhh.
"We suspected that your situation in Ponyville might have been dire," Luna stated. "From the looks of it, our feeling had not been misplaced."
"My young student," Celestia started, "I understand that your heart was in the right place, but remember, this opponent survives by consuming the negative emotion of those around him. Even if your attack was to work, how do you think your friends would start to feel?" Twilight started to think just how miserable she would feel if she saw her friends die and figured that they would feel the same way.
"Even if you did defeat him, he would just feed on that newly placed misery and come back," Added Luna.
Twilight couldn't believe herself; just how pointless her attack… her death would have really been. "Princesses… I just…" She began crying uncontrollably and feel into Celestia's embrace. Celestia held her student while looking over to their opponent, seeming to be extra furious now, at Celestia specifically.
"Come Twilight, I believe it's time that we ended this." she stated, flying back into the sky.
"We couldn't have said it better ourselves sister," Luna said as she grabbed Twilight's waist and followed her sister back into the sky. "Twilight Sparkle, do you remember the spell that we told your shy friend to give you."
"Light shell, but that spell is one of the most basic imprisonment spells. How is that going to help us?"
"Normally you would be right," Celestia said, "but when it's cast by the hands of a master spell-caster, or three, it becomes infinitely more so." Celestia held out her horn, Luna following suit. They both looked toward Twilight, urging her to join in.
"Ready," Luna asked. Twilight nodded.
They all powered up their horns and pointed them towards Minucorn. He knew what came next. He tried desperately to attack, but was too late. The trio had cast the light shell, hitting Minucorn sqare on and surrounding his body in the energy. As the shell started to form, his body was forced back into the same hole in the ground that he had started. His body had dissappeared underneath the subterranean depths as the shell was completed, sealing him away once again.
Twilight, personally, had been ecstatic to see the evil creature dissapear under the ground, but when she looked at her dear princesses, their expressions weren't that of joy, only... sadness?
To Be Concluded