Chapter 9:Love And Friendship's Battle
Back in the city of Canterlot, the afternoon was still bright and shiny, all was quiet for the ponies and all other that lived in the city, except of course for the occurrence at the Canterlot castle that was alive with activity. Red and white magic was glowing and lighting up the whole castle from the back of the foundation as a man and a stallion along with two mares at the man's side were fighting to learn how to battle and control new found power. Colors of the sun and moon were next to go off, and all it indicated was that Celestia and Luna were once again using their powers as well.
In the training grounds, Dylan Stone and his mares were once again going through a long and rough day of training that was finally starting to whine down as Sombra, the former king of the Crystal Empire was now in a sword fight with Dylan. Along with the man that wielded his massive new sword with pride was princess Celestia and Luna, his lovers and controllers of the day and night who were also testing their new abilities. Their powers were strong and their team work with these new found powers were only getting stronger as Dylan and Sombra clashed swords and dropped to both sides of the battle field.
Dylan was assisted by Celestia and Luna while Sombra only had the luxury of high pain tolerance and thousands of years in experience with battles, much to the entire herds disadvantage in this sparring battle. However, Dylan had heart and was showing his potential as a warrior and king as he and the princesses launched themselves at Sombra just in time for a massive wall to shoot from the ground and block the mare's strikes with their horns. Dylan on the other hand was able to swing his blade left and use the power of the moon to slice completely through the wall and just miss Sombra's horn before the two clashed swords.
"So what do you think Sombra...?! Not bad for the first day huh?! And I bet there's so much more for you to show us right,"Dylan said before Celestia suddenly struck Sombra on the side with a swift buck before Dylan jumped away,"I'm mean come on...! This has to be good for our first day right?!"
"Yes...! You three are doing quite well, and your power only continues to grow with each passing moment,"Sombra said before red crystals exploded around the herd and trapped them in,"And yes, there is still much for you all to learn yet, believe me my friend, when I'm done with the three of you, the Shade won't know what hit him...!"
"Yes! We can finally put a stop to the Shade and all the evil he caused, there can finally be true peace for Equestria."Celestia said with a sigh at the thought of a world without the Shade.
For now however, we should be worrying about those seven evils, no doubt he'll unleash all of them first correct?"Luna asked as Sombra freed them from their prisons and approached them.
"Exactly...! He will bring forth all seven evils to do his bidding in hopes of not getting his hands dirty, he has that cocky wit about him,"Sombra explained while Dylan sheathed his sword and panted with exhaustion,"However, when he does appear, there is going to be great trouble and darkness to come from him when he arrives...!"
"I'm not afraid of him... I've looked into the face of death before... And... By my own hand at times too,"Dylan said with a sigh while Celestia and Luna suddenly brushed at his side with concerns,"And these two... They helped me and pulled me out of deaths grip.
"Dylan... I thought you didn't want to talk about all of that... I thought that was history for you."Luna said with concerns at their past adventures together.
"Well... No sense in pretending it didn't happen, but in a way I'm glad it all happened,"Dylan said as he put his arms around both princesses,"I would have been nothing without the two of you..."
"Oh Dylan... Always one to get soft and kind after a hard day of work or activity..."Celestia said before planting a kiss on Dylan's cheek.
"Well... At least I know that you will not be without love in your life my friend..."Sombra said before a solemn chuckle escaped his lips.
They all decided to laugh off their training today as it finally came to close for the day, much to the relief of the herd, now that all could be easy and regular activity could ensue, which meant kitchen time for Dylan. For the princesses it meant their regular schedule of taking care of Equestria and other kingdom's paper work, which relationships lately had been a whole lot more positive and stronger between kingdoms. It almost made the mares want to do all kinds of work with the kingdoms after the new relationship that was forming between all of them, some new and highly profiting trading imports and exports have even opened up since then, and it was music to their ears.
Dylan looked forward to working back in the kitchen again and treating his new teacher of the warrior arts fit for a former king of Equestria's greatest city, there was much to look forward to, and so much little time to do so. They all agreed to go back to the castle and continue the rest of their day with their own duties and activities, but all of that was then cut short as they neared the gate to leave the grounds. It was then that suddenly the gate disappeared in a white flash and Discord the Draconequus had appeared in its place looking more than a bit worried, for he was fully aware of the chaos that was now spreading across the Crystal Empire, and Ponyville.
"Discord...! That was quite unexpected, as are all your appearances,"Sombra said with a chuckle while the Draconequus just crossed his arms and wore an unamused look,"My gosh Discord I'm starting to miss the old you, is there some sort of trouble you would like to share with all of us?"
"Oh no, not at all, only there is the issue of PONYVILLE under attack by the lord of Pain,"Discord suddenly exclaimed with his limbs in the air while shocked looks grew on all faces,"Not only that, but the Crystal Empire is under siege by the lord of Sin and the lord of Lies!"
"What?! How were they able to reel back and attack so soon after the Griffon kingdom?!"Dylan asked out of confusion and disbelief.
"Well while the Griffon kingdom was spared from the Shade's conquest, other parts of Equestria were made into footholds for Tartarus,"Discord said before makin a map surrounded in a white aura appear,"Apploosa has been under siege by two armies of demon gargoyles and giant bat lords, you see the giant muscular human bat hybrids, they are strong and have really been hammering the town...!"
"And the Crystal Empire?! How is prince Shining Armor and princess Cadence holding up...?!"Celestia said fearfully for their fellow rulers of Equestria.
"And princess Twilight, how are they fairing against the lord of Pain?"Luna chimed in out of concern for their newest royalty.
"Well... The Crystal Empire is barely holding, the crystal gate is soon going to give away to the demons of Sin..."Discord said solemnly as he showed them an image of the demons breaking down the gate with demonic battering rams.
"The empire won't last long against Sin, not only is he the strongest of the lesser evils, he is also a gifted general of Tartarus's armies,"Sombra said with a serious look as they watched crystal pony guards desperately shoot arrows to stop the demons progress,"They need help Discord, serious help...!"
"Yes, also princess Twilight and her friends are barely holding Pain off, his brute strength and cold elemental power is unmatched, and the rainbow is having very little effect on him,"Discord explained as he then showed Ponyville's map and an ugly looking maggot like demon smashing through the town and fighting off princess Twilight,"I'm not sure if they can best this foes on their own, they need help as well...!"
"Well shit! What are we standing around for?! We should go out there and help them, we can let the Shade win,"Dylan exclaimed with a tense feeling of responsibility washing over him,"We got go, some of us need to get to the Crystal Empire and stopped the two lords, and others need to go to Ponyville and take that worm beast down, friendship and love are at stake here!"
"You're exactly right Dylan, that must be the significant reason for the attack on two fronts, they want to destroy love and friendship,"Celestia explained in a grim tone, knowing all too well what could happen if Twilight, Cadence, and Shining Armor were to fall,"If they perish from this attack, there will be nothing between Tartarus and their ultimate completion of their conquest..."
"Agreed... And... I feel me and Discord need to be the ones to go to the Crystal Empire, we must be the one's to destroy Sin and Lies,"Sombra explained as his eyes narrowed on the enemies that surrounded them,"Dylan...? How would you and your mare friends like to test out your new abilities and destroy Pain...?"
"I would be honored Sombra, we'll send that bug back to the pit that spawned him,"Dylan said as he gripped his loves hooves with pride,"And we'll do it together, as a man, and his princesses...!"
"Indeed, It is time to teach the Shade the new things we have learned since our last encounter!"Luna exclaimed with excitement at the thought of testing their new power.
"Then there is no time to waste every pony, we must be on our ways immediately,"Discord said while snapping his claw fingers and making the Canterlot chariot appear before them,You won't need the stallions for the chariot now, all you have to do is give it the command of where you would like to go, and it will take you there."
"Thank you Discord, and good luck at the empire,"Dylan said with a smile to both Sombra and Discord,"Both of you... This could be your big shot towards redemption Sombra, take good care of yourself..."
"I will my human friend, I will not fail my home again."Sombra said as Dylan and the princesses made for the chariot.
Dylan, Celestia, and Luna were all rushing to the chariot and quickly piled into it before getting nice and comfy into the seats, they then turned to see Sombra and Discord waving to them before finally disappearing in a white flash of magic. It was then that Dylan and the princesses turned to their chariot and looked it over with interest in its new feature, and were eager to try it out. Dylan was the first to look at the chariot and decided to be the one to try out the new features while Celestia and Luna enjoyed resting on his shoulders as he gave the word.
"Okay then...! To Ponyville immediately!"Dylan commanded before the magic began to happen.
The chariot had then began to suddenly lift off the ground slowly, but gradually without an issue as white sparks of magic appeared from the rear of the chariot like snow while the heard was laughing and enjoying their chariot's new ability. I then suddenly shot into the sky and carried them all off through the clouds high in the sky as the chariot began to take them toward their destination of choice, and the next battle of their life.
Crystal Empire
All disaster was now falling upon the Crystal Empire, flaming large javelins pierced through the walls of the city, and demons pushed for a way to get inside while battles upon the bright and shining city were erupting on the walls where many crystal guards stood. Fights raged through all the walls over the safety of the city while crystal ponies were busy being evacuated from the empire. The skies were once again being cloaked in black smoke like clouds that blocked the sun and orange to red lightning crashed over the city of crystal as screams could be heard from all over the empire.
The crystal heart itself was doing it's best to fend off the demons, and for the most part it did the trick with the larger and more gargantuan creatures, but even then it was still touch and go over the fight for the empire. It then was starting to become even more dire when the crystal heart had then suddenly began to fail and its light had began to go dim as if a darkness was falling upon the beloved heart itself. It didn't take long for more chaos to rise when the crystal guards noticed the blacken light of the empire and were then becoming deterred by the harm they could feel was happening to the crystal heart.
The demons had then quickly took advantage of this sudden change in the enemies behavior and were either sneaking into the city that was luckily evacuated of all innocent crystal ponies or they were continuing their battle with the crystal guards. However their true targets were not the citizens or the city itself, it was the two very rulers of the empire that kept the city full of love and power. Those two rulers were prince Shining Armor, a burly unicorn of white and three shaded blue mane and tail with the cutie mark of a blue shield with a purple star in the center. There was also princess Cadence, the wife of Shining Armor and the goddess of love who stood as a pink Alicorn with a purple, pink, and yellow mane and tail with the cutie mark of a crystal made heart.
It was at this time that from the balcony of an immense palace mad entirely of crystal, Shining Armor himself was now watching this chaos and massive battle unfold, so much blood and death could be seen from the balcony. He watched as guards would die with blades in every body part, and limbs as well as heads would be severed clean off and hung for intimidation, thankfully for the most part the battle was at a stand still. There was no advantage to be seen for him or the enemy, but what he was unaware of who was leading this attack exactly, and he was about to learn the hard way of who he was messing with.
"How can this happen...? Why is this happening...?! Why,"Shining Armor asked himself before looking away from a crystal guard being pulled in two by two demons,"We have to do something...! This can't go on!"
It was then that Shining Armor backed away to leave before he was suddenly surprised by two demon minions jumping from under the balcony and landing right in front of him with swords pointed at their true target. They growled and snarled at the prince who backed away in horror at the disgusting and twisted looking creatures as they then began to chuckle at him and speak in a strange language. The crystal prince quietly opened the doors that lead to the inside of the palace before one of the creatures suddenly lunged at him and chattered a crazy speech before coming in for a downward slice with his curved blade.
Shining Armor was quick and clever as he suddenly lit up his horn and in a flash of speed brought out a sword from inside and blocked the incoming attack with a horizontal block before throwing the demon back. He watched as the demon stumbled back and flew off the ledge of the balcony just in time for the other demon to attack with a running charge going for a stab, before Shining Armor jumped and shot a blast of magic at the creature. The beam made contact and blasted the creatures head completely off allowing it to fall forward and drop it's blade before slamming to the ground and sliding to a stop dead in its tracks.
Shining quickly landed and made sure the demon creature was dead before looking over to the room and running towards it and entering the palace to find the one pony who mattered the most to him, especially during this kind of disaster. He ran through a bedroom before making it to the door and bursting through the doors to see four of his guards killing two demons before seeing Shining wielding his sword and blasting two more creatures away.
"Prince Shining Armor! Thank Celestia we have found you, we must get you to safety sir, your life is in danger...!"A guard said as he and another guard came to the prince's aid and defended him fiercely.
"If you were to fall to these monstrous creatures, the empire would fall, and our efforts would be in vain,"The guard said as they began to move with the prince towards a potential safe place,"We need to get you to a safe place so you can be extracted, we're not so sure that we can stop these creatures...!"
"We can't leave without princess Cadence, we are not leaving my wife behind!"Shining argued before teleporting out of their defense and appearing before them.
"Prince Shining Armor! I saw your wife in the lower levels and just heading towards the stairs that takes her to the crystal heart,"Came the voice of a young orange Pegasus stallion in regular armor,"If you hurry you can catch her at the crystal heart and find out what is going on."
"Thank you Flash Sentry, now go! All of you, we must do our absolute best to protect the empire from the demons,"Shining Armor commanded before a door had suddenly smashed to pieces and brought forth a crowd of demons,"GO! Repel the enemy! For the Crystal Empire!"
The guards wasted no time as Shining Armor raised and pointed his sword at the incoming foes before his guards charged at them and clashed in a bloody display of death and honor vs dishonor while Shining Armor ran down a separate hall way to reach his love. Once he had crashed through another set of doors, he was then met with another group of demons that were just finishing three guards as they severed each of their limbs off before noticing Shining Armor. The demons shouted like animals before charging at Shining Armor with their spears ready and slobbering in their desire for royal blood to be spilled before Shining was quick to take action.
With a quick flash of his horn, he teleported out of sight and reappeared behind the group before tossing his sword at them before lighting the blade up with his magic and making it spin with high momentum and velocity. He watched as he swung his magical blade and tore through the cursed demons and spilled their blood on all the walls as limbs, heads, and entrails went in all directions like grass being chopped by a lawn mower blade. Once all demons had been dealt with, Shining Armor continued on leaving a pile of dead demons in his wake as he found a flight of stairs and quickly raced down them towards the feel of his wife getting ever so closer to him.
Finally the moment he made it down the stairs, he had ran right into princess Cadence herself and fell with her to the ground before sliding to a slow, but complete stop right near a door that lead to the crystal heart. Shining Armor laid on top of Cadence for only a moment before looking up to see some incoming crab like demons, he quickly defended his beloved princess of love as he blasted the group of demons away with one big explosion of magic. He watched all of them become red paste before he looked down to his frighten princess of love while she looked to him with surprise at his appearance, fighting, and risking his life, through life and limb, bone, flesh and blood, just to protect her.
"Shining Armor... You came for me... You saved me..."Cadence said with surprise yet deep love even more so in her voice.
"I would have gave up everything just to protect you, and hold you in my arms Cadence,"Shining Armor said as they shared a moment of love with each other,"No matter what happens, I'll always be there with you through good and bad times, I love you Cadence..."
"I love you too Shining Armor..."Cadence said as they shared a passionate and courage filling kiss.
Once they were done with their solid moment of fulfilling their kiss that filled them with the love they had always used to fuel the Crystal Empire itself, Shining Armor was quick to get off his wife and help her to her hooves.
"I'm really glad I found you Shining Armor, there's something wrong with the crystal heart,"Cadence warned as Shining listened with for for the beloved crystal heart,"It feels like it's being poisoned by something, its light is dimming and the crystal ponies are getting weaker, we have to do something."
"Then lets get to the crystal heart and take care of whatever and who ever is messing with the heart of our city,"Shining Armor decided as he and Cadence looked to the next flight of stairs,"Come on! The entrance towards the crystal heart is just down here, lets go!"
Shining Armor lead the way for his wife as they ran off together down the flight of stairs that lead to the outside area of the palace that was still in massive chaos with the guards now fighting with the demons that made it inside. They ignored the shouting and the screams of guards and demons as death felt like it was surrounding the both of them as they ran down the spiral stair case with the crystal heart only on their mind. They took care not to burden themselves by thinking of all that was going on around them, their city was becoming a ruin and a battle field, but they had to press on, their crystal heart was far too important to the city to be ignored.
Cadence started to feel a bit tired and was slowing down, but in reality her strength and love was now a part of the crystal heart, and she was feeling the heart starting to die and become consumed with the darkness of deceit and lies. Something was surely wrong, and there was something responsible for this darkness covering the heart, and they were ready to stop it as Shining Armor looked to see Cadence's weakened state. He took up her hoof and quickly gave her a nudge forward, and it appeared to work as she picked up the pace just in time for them to make it down the flight of stairs and come outside to a city of disaster and war.
They took a minute to see the crystal guards at war within the city desperately fighting the demons from both land and air, it still appeared to be an even match, but when they turned to the center of the palace, they found the source of the problem. They could see a large demon as tall as a crystal building and far different from the minions as he glowed bright blue from his eyes and mouth while he held onto the crystal heart with both vine like claws. He appeared to be pouring black magic from it's chest that contained a black and twisted heart into the crystal heart itself while the crystal heart began to grow darker, and it's light began to diminish.
Thinking fast, both shining Armor and Cadence lit their horns up with pink and ice blue magic before aiming and firing a spiraling beam of combined magic at the demon just as he smirked at the weakening crystal heart. However, the demon's celebration was short live as he felt the magical beam clash right into his side and send him soaring straight into one of the four pillars of the outside room. Cadence at that same time had seen the crystal heart and quickly ran to it, hearing its cries for help and desire to see love once again come back to the city it protected, the love that both Cadence and Shining Armor could give.
"Shining Armor! Get over here! The crystal heart needs us to give it some of our love, only then can the darkness be lifted,"Cadence said as she began to concentrate and feed her magic into the heart,"Our love is what gave it the power to protect the empire, and now it needs us to help it...!"
"Right...! Then lets give it what it needs to help take these demons out,"Shining Armor said as he came to his wife's side,"Lets do this together Cadence!"
Together the two channeled their magic and their love into the crystal heart and was making it start to glow again as it began spinning at its regular pace and had then shot at two incoming demons reducing them to dust. The two lovers focused hard on their love and feeling with each other to help channel their magic and love to the heart in hopes of saving it completely, though it became obvious that the heart had been greatly affected by the demons power. They could see all kinds of darkness and haunting images of Tartarus's very foundation plaguing the crystal hearts power, and it was even far beyond what they would expect from regular demons.
It became clear that who ever was tainting their precious heart was something much more extraordinary, but they had little knowledge of Tartarus and the creatures that the evil realm carried with it. It was then that they would soon have their answers as the two rulers finally stabilized the heart and watched it begin to shoot many different rays of magic in all directions to help combat the evil in their home. However their troubles were far from over as the demon they had just attacked smashed through the crystals and get free while he wore an angry look at the two rulers of the empire that dared to strike him down.
"You infernal immortal ponies dare to strike at the lord of Lies?! How simply ridiculous,"The dark one hissed as he made his eyes glow bright and channeled his dark power,"Just for that, I will consume you both and use your power to truly corrupt the crystal heart!"
It was then that the crystal ground all around them had begun to shake like an earthquake, and even crack the crystals into pieces before a flash of black thorny vines exploded from the ground under the prince and princess. The vines quickly wrapped around their legs before delivering a jolt of red lighting to their bodies making them scream in pain before they had then dropped to their knees. Cadence was feeling the fear of the heart as the demon began to come near them once again before delivering another jolt of pain through the two rulers and letting out screams of pain.
"Yes...! YES...! Scream for my delight, cry for mercy so I can deny it and you can both die,"Lies demanded with a sick grin on his face as he watched them struggle,"Struggle all you like my little rulers of the Crystal Empire, for soon this whole kingdom, and your precious love will forever be destroyed by the power of Tartarus...!"
"AAAAAAAAAGGGHHH! We will never let our kingdom fall into your clutches demon! Not even if it kills us,"Cadence argued in pain as she felt her body being weakened by the torturous attack,"We would rather die than let you have our city!"
"That's exactly what I'm counting on my little ponies, now lets see just how long it will take before you both finally die, along with your precious kingdom...!"Lies said as he chuckled while raising the power of the red lightning.
"Do your worst you freak! Just give us your best shot!"Shining Armor taunted much to the lord of Lies excitement.
He was about to comply with the prince's demand, but it was then that the lord would never again see such a sight as a jolting pain in his chest exploded before his chest itself followed along with the pain. A bright red blade of crystal had then went completely through the lord of Lies chest making it explode with blood as it reached two feet through his chest before the creature was about to go limp. It was then that by a vicious swing of an eagle claw that he felt his head suddenly felt severed at the neck cleanly as his head rolled right off his body and hit the ground hard and rolling to the prince and princesses hooves.
They looked around as they felt the vines suddenly release them before turning to dust and withering away in the wind, they fell weakely to their knees again while looking around to find their saviors. What they found was quite the sight to behold, Discord and Sombra were now standing before them with smirks on their faces just as Lies headless body fell to the ground before turning to dust and blowing away into the wind. Discord was easily identified, for he was quite popular around Equestria now a days, but Sombra was hard to recognize without his evil royal attire, red curved gorn and his dark green eyes that glowed with hateful and fearful magic.
It was then that both Sombra and Discord extended their hoof and lion paw out to give them help as they gladly took them up on the offer and were able to get to their hooves thanks to the aid of their friend and new friend.
"Thanks Discord, it's nice to see you again, its been a while since I last saw you,"Cadence said in a joyful tone before turning to Sombra with confusion,"Um... And thank you as well kind stallion, uh...do we know you from some where? I have a feeling we've met before."
"Yeah... I've seen those eyes before, but they were different and far more darker, did we meet in battle before?"Shining Armor asked as he looked into Sombra's red glittering yet serious eyes.
"Yes... As a matter of fact we did meet in battle before, but I was a much different stallion at the time, my name is Sombra,"Sombra introduced properly with a bow while they began to recognize the name,"You both met me when you first seized control of the Crystal Empire, and miraculously bested me when I tried to take my kingdom back. I wish to apologize for my actions earlier, I was not myself..."
"Wait...! You mean you're... KING Sombra! The guy who tried to enslave our kingdom and enslave all the crystal ponies,"Shining Armor exclaimed before aiming a glowing horn at Sombra,"Why are YOU here! Haven't you done enough to our kingdom?! Are YOU behind this savage attack?!"
"Now hold on there Shining Armor, as much as it is hard to believe, Sombra here is on our side,"Discord said while standing in front of Sombra and placing a claw on Shining's horn,"Just calm down and here him out, he wants to help you stop this attack."
"He wants to help us...? But why...?!"Cadence questioned in disbelief with Sombra's new goal and his form.
"All I want... Is redemption for my home, and for myself... I will help you save our home no matter what,"Sombra promised as he looked to the chaos before them and saw the battle that raged on,"The lord of Sin is doing all this, it was a miracle that you survived this long against the Shade's most powerful and gifted general of Tartarus..."
"The lord of Sin, as in the seven evils, and... The Shade has returned?!"Cadence exclaimed as all the darkness she felt was finally starting to make sense.
"Yes... He has returned after five thousand years of being trapped in the realm of Tartarus,"Discord explained while zapping a few demons away with a snap of his lion paw,"And now I fear that he wants to make Equestria the new realm of Tartarus, and he's planning on doing that by killing the two of you and princess Twilight to end both love and friendship in the world...!"
"WHAT?! THEY'RE AFTER TWILIGHT TOO?!"Both Cadence and Shining shouted out loud with great fear.
"Yes...! But for now, do you want to take back your kingdom from the demons that are plaguing it?"Sombra asked as he summoned a row of pillars that began to skewer demons every where.
"Well yes, we have promised to protect our home to the very end, so what exactly are we suppose to do to make that happen?"Shining Armor asked the former king while he looked to the dangerous city streets.
"Just follow me and prepare to fight! We must gather your guards and regroup for a massive frontal assault,"Sombra said before wielding his red crystal sword in front of him like the crystal warriors of old,"I've studied Sin's every strategy when it came to war, he's in for a rude awakening when we come for him...!"
With that said, Sombra charged head on into a group of demons and saved several crystal guards in the process by slicing up all demons in his sight before taking off even further with Discord right behind him. Cadence and Shining Armor were left feeling completely confused by the sudden return of a much different king Sombra, in fact he acted as if he was never a king to begin with any more, it was like he was merely a noble warrior now. Not wanting to disappoint such a brave and changed king turn warrior as they saw him slaughtering demons left and right with little effort, they let out a couple of roars as they reared back and charged into the demons themselves and began to take back their kingdom.
Ponyville
In the large town of Ponyville, another disaster was taking place as a battle between the wielders of the rainbow power were in a fierce battle with the lord of Pain over the safety of their beloved town and home. Princess Twilight and her friends were currently in their full rainbow forms and were proving be a claw full for Pain as he smacked away Rainbow Dash before backing away to collect his thoughts. He look to the team of six that glowed with the magic of friendship as they stood there a bit scratched up, but in no shape or form crippled or unable to continue fighting him.
"These six ponies are strong... No wonder my master was so concerned when he was picking me to carry the mission out,"Pain said before dodging a blast of rainbow magic from Twilight and growling at them,"They are definitely starting to become an issue of sort, perhaps I need to be a bit more assertive with them!"
"Hang in there girls! we got him right where we need him, he won't last much longer at this rate,"Twilight yelled to her friends as Pain slammed his claws down to the ground to charge at them,"Here he comes! Don't let him hit you with those claws!"
The mares quickly went in all directions as they flew around Pain like flies around an annoyed man as he blindly swatted at all the rainbow lights he could see, but his swings proved useless since he lacked the speed to hit them with his power. He was soon becoming annoyed with the ladies circling around him like annoying bugs that just wanted to peck at him with their rainbow magic until he finally gave in. However the mares had no idea how Pain even worked, and because of that he was still unpredictable to them, and when they learned he was a power house by trade, he became much more dangerous to them.
It was then that they were about to learn a new trick about Pain as he smiled wickedly before slamming his claws together and suddenly sending a bright blue ring of sudden bone chilling cold all around him that went to work immediately. Twilight suddenly felt most of her body become cold and hard to move while her friends had went as solid as a rock, especially now that they were coated in some very forceful ice prisons that made them easy to hit now. Pain wasted no time as he swung his giant claws and cracked them both in all directions he found fit for the mares as he chuckled at the screams they made.
He heard bones in Rainbow Dashes wings break as he knocked her clean out of the sky and into Rarity' boutique before turning and finishing by knocking Pinkie Pie away, sending her flying into her work place at Sugarcube Corners. He then turned to Twilight who turned out to be quite resilient to his power as she stayed flying and glaring at him as he crawled his way over to her wearing his evil grin to her. He waited until he was right in front of her before bringing his two giant claws together and slamming them side by side with Twilight, making her scream out in great pain at the power of his massive claws.
"Well now, it appears that your power of the rainbow is not as strong as it was previously thought to be princess,"Pain said with a chuckle as he began to squeeze Twilight nice and tight to watch her gasp for air,"I'm going to enjoy making your head pop like a zit, and then we all get to watch the power of friendship disappear with you little mare...!"
"Go ahead and try you cowardly monster! But no matter what happens, friendship will never be dead,"Twilight snapped while ignoring the crushing pain in her body,"Friendship is magic itself, and it will never be gone...! Not even the Shade will ever know the true power of friendship, and that's why he will lose in the end...!"
"I doubt that, because once you and your fellow rulers over at the Crystal Empire are dead, your whole world is ours,"Pain said as he put another squeeze into Twilight,"Today love and friendship die, and a new hell arrives to Equestria, and melts it to ash!"
"THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG ASSHOLE!"Came the roar of a human voice as Pain looked up only to get an eye full of white magic.
He saw the white magic crash into his right eye and completely destroy all sight in his right eye as he shrieks while releasing an injured Twilight before falling back and slamming back first into the center of the town. Twilight in the meantime was falling towards certain doom, but it was then that princess Celestia had swooped in and wrapped her up in her fore arms before letting her down gently to the ground. At the same time, Luna and Dylan had entered the area as well with their magic glowing bright as Celestia began to tend to Twilight's wounds with her new sun powered magic.
While Celestia was going to be tending to her injured student and friends as she lit her horn up to make her friends appear before her frozen partially and badly injured by Pain's powerful blows, while Dylan and Luna could focus on Pain himself. They watched the maggot like lord of Pain raise to his small crab like feet as he got up and looked upon the new foes, needless to say, he was now angry to see the princesses of the sun and moon as well as their human lover and the destroyer of his sister. He growled as he then let out a roar of fury to see the creature that had condemned his sister to eternal torture while Dylan slowly withdrew his sword from his sheath.
"Hey there you big bug! Do you remember me and my mare friends?! They told me a bit about you,"Dylan called out to the maggot like demon as he narrowed his sights on Dylan,"I'm the one who killed your damn sister Anguish, and let me just say, that bitch didn't stand half a chance, was she really an evil lord? I find it hard to believe!"
"Then allow me to show you what a lord of evil can truly do, I'll end all of your pathetic lives here and now,"Pain said as he slammed his claws down and began to charge at them,"NOW DIE YOU ROYAL DOGS!"
"Bring it on you squirmy worm son of a bitch!"Dylan challenge as he and Luna lunged at Pain to defend friendship itself.
SORRY FOR THE LONG DELAY ON THE STORY, I NEEDED TO THINK OUT MY NEXT STEPS FOR THE STORY, AND FINISH OTHER STORIES, I'LL TRY AND CUT BACK ON THE TIME IT TOOK.