There was a sound like teeth chattering loudly in the distance, then to our sides, and then all around us. Anthony's sword began sparking again and All of us switched from chit chatting to defense mode. Anthony spun his staff in one hand lighting it up and drawing his sword in the other hand. Natalee fired up her horn literally as smoke billowed from the tip, and Ben swung his mace, waking it up and sparking the gems on the ball. All four of us had our backs together so that we would be able to fight while protecting the other. The Skeletones were back and this time, ready for battle. They were armed with flaming weapons, and spiked armor. Their helmets had horns similar to what Lousepher's head looked like.
As the Skeletones drew nearer we began firing. Anthony and Natalee cast fire bombs, a trick they learned from fighting the Wicked Witch so many times, while Argy was at first helpless, until he grabbed my sword, and charged into them with Ben fighting directly. He fought gallantly, slamming the crap out of the boney Skeletones. The fight was not an easy or perfect one however. Their flaming weapons were huge, and they started fighting Argy. The crystal sword had no magic when not in Anthony's hands, but was still a very useful weapon, and Argy slain three Skeletones with one mighty epic swing. At the same time, Natalee spewed a steady stream of just pure fire out of her horn, killing at least fifty. I congratulated her, and then did my favorite trick. I ran up to a group of them, and slammed my staff on the ground, lighting the sapphire green this time. All of the ones around me froze, and then exploded. Ben meanwhile was continuing to abuse the ground with his powerful mace, the gems flew off and swirled around five of them, ripping their bones apart and blowing them up. On we pressed, all fighting valiantly. Victory was near. There were only four left after this huge fight, and then disaster struck. One of the Skeletones had smacked Argy's sword away. Cornering him to a tree, the Skeletone lit his own sword in flame, and tried to kill Argy, who screamed for help. Anthony whispered to his staff, and threw it a nanosecond before the Skeletone struck. Ben and Natalee held their breath as they waited to see what would happen. The flaming sword made it to within inches of Argy's chest, when Anthony's staff rammed its self into the chest of the Skeletone. Argy moved out of the way, and Anthony holding his hands together, separated them swiftly, and held them apart for a moment. The staff's sapphire poking out the rib cage litl red and smoked. BOOM, the Skeletone blew up and the pieces melted into lava, and the Skeletone died, the staff returned to my hand, and I ran over to Argy. Natalee and Ben were impressed, I had never done something like that before.
"Hey are you ok? Did he cut you?" I asked, looking him over making sure there was no blood. Natalee trotted with ben over to see for themselves if Argy was ok too.
"You alright?" she asked.
"Yeah we saw that flaming sword going straight at you," added Ben.
"Yeah I'm fine, Anthony killed him before he even had the chance to kill me!" Argy thanked me.
"It was just a little something Ozma taught me last time I came here, I would have done it for anyone of you three, I love you guys like my own family," We all hugged, and pretended to be annoyed, not trying to appear weak or "mushy" as Natalee put it, and we laughed. Then, the air grew cold, and snow instantly covered everything but did not fall naturally, it just appeared.
"It's the Angel of Death, everyone get behind me!" Natalee tried to hide elsewhere, but I wouldn't let her and at the last moment she ran back to where she was. I formed my strongest shield I could possibly make, around us, and held onto it tightly, awaiting the imminent arrival of His Reapingness. Argy hadn't met him yet though, so he was in for a treat. Apperaing silently and out of no where, Lousepher stood. Again only his red eyes visible under the hood.
"Why have you returned? This land belongs to Ozma, Queen of-" I was rudely interrupted.
"You are on a path that you hope will take you to my Queen's Palace. I assure you, you will not be able to find it. Should you survive your encounter with me tonight, Mombi will certainly finish you off. There are four of you now, good. Better to realize now that you are pathetic insolent weak-" Natalee interrupted him in return of the favor.
"I AM NATALEE, FORMER WIELDER OF THE RUBY SLIPPERS AND KILLER OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST! ANTHONY KILLED HER WITH GLINDA AS WELL AS HER BROTHER, I ASSURE YOU SIR, WEAK, WE ARE NOT,"
Lousepher laughed and held out a blackened boney hand, that dropped black acidic ash on the snow. From the tiny black spot amongst the white, grew a vial of a dark blue liquid. He opened it and threw dropps on all of us laughing again. With that, he vanished.
"COWARD!" Ben and I shouted together.
"Jynx, you owe me a trip to Earth!" Ben said. Natalee was the only one who didn't get hit, and at first we all were fine. Then, Argy, Ben and I started screaming and holding our heads.
"What guys what's the matter?" Natalee panicked. We all passed out on the floor, and at first Natalee cried and screamed our names in shocked horror, thinking we died.
"ANTHONY! NO, BEN, ARGY! WHAT THE DEVIL?" Still crying and not knowing what to do, she turned her head suddenly and saw Mombi waiting there. The pointed crown was so sharp that when a bird landed on it, it was cut in two and fell to the snowy floor.
"What in Glinda's name do you want? Actually you know what no I don't have time for you right now GO!" Natalee wiped away her tears with her hoov, and tried to turn her back, but she couldn't.
"This is not a game, I know who you are you silly little Animal, you're the last of the Alicorn's so you think you're some kind of special case," Natalee just laughed at this.
"You wish right? No dear ancient Mombi, I AM NATALEE!" Mombi screamed and dropped her mouth. Only for a moment was she horrified. Then she grabbed the Alicorn's snout by the chin, and Natalee neighed and tried kicking her but couldn't reach. Mombi opened her mouth wide and closed her eyes, waiting, and pulling Natalee closer.
"You idiot, I ALREADY DIED, I HAVE NO SOUL TO TAKE!" Natalee was close enough now to kick her and she did, sending Mombi hurting on the ground.
"This is not over between us, I WILL KILL YOU AND THAT STUPID LITTLE EARTHLING CRETIN!"
and Mombi departed in a flash of fire and falling knives. She went back over to the guys who were in the same spot as before. She rested her head on each of their chests trying to hear their hearts. They still had pulses, but no one was breathing. Then one by one we woke up, but something was different. Anthony dropped his staff and the three of them started beating each other's brains out. Not literally, but it was brutal. Biting, kicking, punching and hitting. Natalee tried to stop them but then screamed and Shot a rainbow out from her horn, letting it fall on them. Anthony, Ben and Argy all had dilated pupils, and their veins were throbbing. But when the rainbow fell, they slowly came back to normal, and fell again. This time they were all normal, and sad for turning against each other so easily.
"You guys almost killed each other! It was Lousepher not your selves," Natalee assured.
"Well thank you Natalee, for saving our skins again," I said.
"You have saved me countless times, the least I could do was this time," Natalee smiled. I picked up my staff, brushed off my robe and we continued walking.
"Nothing can stand in our way, not even Mombi," Ben said, we all silently agreed, and saw a shooting star fly across the night sky.