Chapter 11 : Loves Last Gambit
Well here it is chapter 11, I'm surprised I made it this far.
Well here comes the final battle between Light Glider and Dusk the embodiment of Discord's past. Enjoy
Everypony could tell that Light would win by power alone and even though he just stood there his power was easily seen by every last pony especially Dusk who was now losing his confidence as shown by the shanking of his eyes "do you really expect me to shiver and fear at another stone with no power at all" he sneered at Light
Dusk threw a dark fire ball at Light but by his surprise Light just knocked it into the ground by his feet and it extinguished in seconds "Yes, yes I do" he said looking at Dusk with a smirk "now then let's test out these new legs of mine Shall WE!" he shouted as his wolf legs pushed him forward at an unseeable speed, he then reappeared behind the parasite and not even he could see the wolf foot before it smashed his head into the ground at full force
Light looked down at the creature "well well well, did you finally become a worm or are you an ostrich" he laughed "well either way let's see how high you can fly" the grey pony reached down to Dusk when he suddenly vanished for a moment only to reappear behind Light going to kick him but before he could Light stopped the kick in midair angering Dusk to know end but every punch or kick he threw was blocked by Light before they could connect and every second Light would let Dusk know his place as the weaker of the two
"how... How could you be This Powerful" Dusk huffed in anger as Light looked back with a calm face
"because, just as I've told you before, you lack the Power of Love and I don't" he said knocking Dusk once again into the ground
Dusk picked himself up again in anger "you still can't win I can't be destroyed that easily" he said with an evil smirk
Light sighed at the parasite "I know but a wise pony once said 'Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow' and I'm definitely joyous" he said with a large smile
Dusk raised his eyebrow "and which one of you stupid ponies said that" he queried
Light looked at Dusk in surprise "why the great Dirt Benedict of course he was great in every" his eyes widened with realisation "wait a minute your trying to distract me" he said with a glare to which Dusk just smirked and shrugged "Anyway your the sorrow this time around Dusky and I'm gonna keep smiling at you" he said with a bit of annoyance behind his large smile
Dusk lunged for Light "maybe but you still won't win" and there fight continued the others looked on in amazement as Light wasn't looking tired of scared in the slightest
Back at the library the elements of harmony, Discord, Spike and Screwball looked on in disbelief still trying to comprehend what had just happened "Does anyone know what just happened?" Twilight asked the others around her
Rainbow Dash looked blankly at the fight for a moment then snapped herself back into reality with a wing slap "uh uh" she said shaking her head in both pain and confusion
Rarity was so shocked by the situation her hair had began to puff out into a 'pinkie pie shape' and as she tried to fix her new hair do she replied to Twilight with a plain and simple "no"
"not at all" Applejack said fixing her hat on her head and turning to her husband "don't look at me" he said waving his claws in the air with a smile
Sunset Shimmer just looked on and laughed "I wish" she said wiping a single tear from her eye
Pinkie Pie was the only one not in shock she just hopped on the spot "nopie nopie nope" she said hopping away with a smile
Fluttershy smiled slightly as she watched the battle "well what ever happened it seems to have helped" she said with a sigh of relief
Screwball watched the fight with a gleam of intrigue and amazement in her swirling eyes "uncle Wolfies an actual wolf..." she paused "That's so cool" she said with glee as she jumped into the air
Discord scratched his head making ten question marks or different varieties and sizes appear above him "even I don't understand what's going on" he said with a pause as he saw the question marks above him "And I'm the Lord Of Chaos" he said swatting the symbols with a fly swatted
Twilight shook her head "ok let's backup a minute, we fired the elements" she said making a list in the air with her magic
Sunset Shimmer walked over to her "yes we did that" she said ticking the box on Twilight's list
Twilight say by her list and put her hoof on her chin "then Light jumped in the way of the attack" she said as she wrote
Rainbow flew over to the two unicorn "yep that Definitely happened" she said with a slightly annoyed tone
Twilight looked at the pegusus with small smile "and now he's transformed into a pony wolf hybrid with the element of love around his hoof" she said in complete disbelief
Pinkie hopped over to them "yep yep yep that's what's happened" she said with glee
"But WHY!" Twilight snapped in frustration as her hair began to frizz
Discord popped next to the alicorn and patted her frizzy hair back to normal "well don't the elements change what ever they hit into what's truly in the targets heart" he said holding a fake heart in his claw
Twilight put her hoof in the air with a sigh "well yes but that doesn't explain what happened to him" she said with annoyance
"actually I believe it does" Discord said placing a pair of bifocals on his nose "What!?" the alicorn said to him blankly in both face and tone
Discord summoned a large red chair and sat down on it holding a book "let me explain when I was first hit with the elements I turned to stone since my heart was made of stone" he said as he looked over to his wife and child with a compassionate smile "though that won't happen now but anyway, Light's heart seems to have always been full of Love for Fluttershy and what seems like everyone he meets and it seems that the love he had manifested itself as the element of love when it was struck by the other elements power" he said with a proud and knowledgeable tone
Twilight looked at the dragoneques blankly "oh come on do you really ex..." she paused for a moment "Wait that actually makes sense... But it still doesn't explain the Wolf Legs!" she shouted at Discord in annoyance
Discord put his hand into the air getting everyone's attention "I believe there's a little filly who can give us an idea on that as well" everypony turned to little Screwball who was gawking at the continuing battle
Fluttershy walked over and knelt next to her daughter "Screwball, sweetie do you know why your uncle turned into a wolf pony" she asked the little filly with a calming voice
Screwball looked up at her mother with a large smile "because he's uncle Wolfie of course" she said with gleeful eyes
Twilight raised her eyebrows in confusion "uncle Wolfie..." she said looking towards the filly "why do you call him uncle Wolfie!?" she inquired
Screwball turned her head in confusion "because his eyes reminded me of a timber wolfs silly, why else" she said with her large smile
Fluttershy tilted her head and nodded "well he did have a wolf like temper when he was younger, especially when I got hurt by somepony" she said with a slightly embarrassed smile
Suddenly an exclamation point appeared above Discord's head "that when combined with my chaotic magic could have cause his body to change slightly" he exclaimed to the others with excitement
"and when the elements magic combined with his it gave that wolf like personality a physical form" Twilight exclaimed with a happy smile
Discord's excitement simmered down for a moment "well that explains what happened but there's still one question I have left" he said as question marks appeared above his head once more "how did he know it would happen?" he asked with annoyance
"oh that ones simple Discord" a voice echoed from the sky and everypony looked up to see Light flying in mid air still blocking every attack Dusk threw at him and able to talk to them at the same time
Discord twisted his neck in confusion "is this really a good time to talk" he said with a raised or lowered eyebrow
Light yawned for a moment "actually I've been getting slightly bored so" he said pushing Dusk's shadowy hoofs away from him "yeah I think it is" he said with a smirk
Twilight shook her head in annoyance at his cockiness "ok so how is it simple" she asked waving her hoofs around
"well I realised one thing that you all seemed to miss" he said with the cockiest tone ever "what?" Sunset asked with annoyance having missed something
Light sighed "the number of elements, duh" he said still keeping Dusk at bay
Twilight began to nod "ok..." then she looked up in confusion "What?" she screamed as she hopped into the air with rage
Pinkie Pie giggled at the alicorn "oh you silly billies" she said stroking Twilights mane "there were more elements of disharmony then there were us of course" she said still giggling away with a large smile
"she's right" Discord said summoning a chalkboard "there were eight elements of disharmony to your seven elements of harmony which meant.." he said noting it all down on the chalkboard
Light interrupted Discord's explanation "which meant there must be another element of harmony" his cocky voiced echoed from the sky
Twilight looked up with a blank face "so you took a gamble to awaken the last element" she said with a suspicious tone
Light laughed at her suspicion with a smile "well sort of, ya see I noticed something" he said smacking Dusk into the ground and flying down to the others "when my body absorbed your magic it also connected me to your subconscious and each of you had a little bit of the puzzle that just needed to be put together" he said with a cheerful smirk
Discord's neck stretched up to Light" and that gave you the idea to create the last element" he said with suspicion
Light smiled at him pushing his head down so his neck would return to normal "yep when I realised that another element was needed I decided to take the gamble" he said as Discord's neck returned to normal "what gamble" Discord asked removing Light's hoof from his head
Light smiled with a hint of embarrassment "the gamble that the other elements were the only way to awaken the eighth one of them" he said as he landed in front of everyone
Twilight jaw dropped in amazement "that's both completely stupid and utterly amazing" she said lifting her jaw back into place
Light scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment "thanks Twilight" suddenly Dusk appeared trying to catch Light of guard but he was stopped instantly "now if you'll excuse me I've got a prior engagement to finish" Light turned towards Dusk and fought him once again and after a life of never being scared of anything, every last being in Equestria could feel Dusk's absolute fear of Light
Discord sat on the ground with a sigh of relief "you know my little ponies i think he actually has a chance to beat him" he said with a surprising smile on his face
Sunset looked at the calm dragoneques and smiled "just like you did with the other seven huh" she said with a grin
"what!?" Rainbow said looking at the unicorn with confusion "we didn't beat the others they lost there power" she said exhorting her confidence in her knowledge
Discord looked over to the ponies and nodded "Dashie's right the others weren't defeated by us they were..." he stopped for a moment jumping to his feet shocking everypony "Absorbed By Dusk OH CELESTIA, LIGHT!" he shouted as he looked up at the fight in the sky and he felt a chill run down his curved spine as he saw Light smile at him as if to say 'goodbye and good luck'
Twilight looked at him with fear and confusion "Discord what's going on" she inquired looking towards the fight
Discord eyes shook in fear "he's going to..." but before he could finish Light had grabbed Dusk and shot into the sky at a breakneck speed seemingly not wanting to stop
Dusk tried to force his way out of Light's clutches but he couldn't get free of his grasp "What Are You Doing With Me" he asked with his loud evil voice
Light didn't make eye contact with the parasite in his arms "I'm Doing The Only Thing I Can" he said focusing on the sky above
"I Can't Die Light No Matter WHAT YOU DO" Dusk shouted at the Pegasus with fire in his blood red eyes
Light focus never wavered but a smirk appeared on his face "Wrong There Is One Thing I Can Do" Dusk's eyes began to shake in pure fear at those words "No You Can't... You Wouldn't" his voice shook with every word
Light didn't waver in his mission he looked straight to the sky with a smile on his face "to save my family I'd do anything" he said as a single tear fell from his eye towards the ground
On the ground however the ponies were still looking confused at Discord's frightful reaction "What's happening Discord" Twilight asked the dragoneques once more hoping to get a answer this time
Discord swallowed hard making a large 'gulp' sound for everypony around to hear "he's going to sacrifice himself to destroy Dusk" he said with a shaking voice
Fluttershy hoped into the air in surprise "What! Why!?" she shouted at her husband in fear
Discord looked at his wife shaking in fear and looked her with calming eyes "because Dusk won't just give up or be destroyed like any other opponent you've faced before" he said stroking the mare's hair trying to calm her
"Why Not!" Rainbow shouted right in Discord's face
Discord looked at her blankly and pushed the pony to the ground with a single claw "because over the last 25 years he's powered himself up so much that for us to beat him we'd have to do it 8 times and with every life he has 8 separate energy supplies, we'd never win and he knows that" he said with fearful and compassionate tone towards the others
The others were shaking in fear and confused by what Discord was saying, Twilight was the only calm one out of the group "so why's he going to destroy himself and Dusk" she asked the dragoneques sternly
Discord was a little surprised at Twilight's reaction to it all "unfortunately Light knows there's only one way to destroy someone 8 times with a single attack" at that moment Spike who had been trying his hardest not to be affected turned to Discord "an explosion!" he exclaimed with a fearful and shaking voice
Discord hung his head because of those words "exactly" he said under his breath
Sunset shook her head snapping her out of her confused state "but no concentrated magic can cause an explosion that big without harming another pony" she exclaimed to the him with confidence
Twilight's eyes them grew with realisation "Oh My Celestia... He can do it but it won't be an explosion" she said looking towards Discord who now had a sad smile on his face "no it'll be a love bomb" he stated to everyone's surprise
Applejack was the first to react to those words "the same one used to defeat Queen Chrysalis and King Sombra?" she questioned
Discord nodded "exactly but he can't do that since he doesn't have a significant other like Shining Armour as Cadence did or the crystal heart" he said with a solemn tone
Twilight looked up at Discord "so he's going to cause the element of love to emit all his power into a love bomb" she asked the dragoneques with a stern look in her eyes
Discord hung his head in sadness "yes but there's a cost, once he gives the element all his power he will die along with Dusk" he said with a sad tone as he looked towards the sky once more
Fluttershy shook her head in fear "No He Can't Not Again" she said beginning to tear up "Please No, BROTHER" she screamed into the skies at the top of her lungs with her voice shaking in complete fear and sadness
Back in the sky Light has stopped his ascent and began his fast decent towards the ground but Light's eyes were not full of fear or sadness but hope as he descended "you know I've enjoyed these past twenty five years even if I wasn't awake for the first fifteen and for the other ten I was trapped inside my own body but it was kinda fun and it's helped me realise exactly what my destiny is so I've actually gotta say thanks Dusk" he said looking at Dusk with a smile as a tear fell down his face "Farewell You Parasitic Thing You" he said as Dusk screamed for his life "LLLLLLIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHTTTTT!"
As the two ponies came crashing towards the ground a sudden boom erupted in the sky leaving the shape of Light's cutie mark behind and as they reached the ground a soothing voice could be heard by everyone "Live for the ones you Love, Laugh with the ones you care for, Love the people who would never leave you and Flutters Never Lose the Kind Person You Are Inside... Goodbye..." at that moment a golden light erupted from the two as they crashed into the ground the light enveloped the town and began to eradicate any dark creature inside it especially Dusk
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE, YOU'VE KILLED BOTH YOURSELF AND ME AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA WEVE CERTAINLY GONE AS WE CAME DIDNT WE LIGHT TOGETHER AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH". and with that last cry both the dark parasite Dusk and the heroic element of love Light had vanished in front of everypony
Everypony on the ground looked OK in shock at what had just happened "He actually did it" Twilight said with surprise
"he's gone, he's just... gone" Sunset said unable to look away from the impact site
Applejack turned and hugged Spike as she tried not to cry "that was too reckless" she said as the dragon consoled her in his arms
Rainbow sat herself down and just looked towards the crater "couldn't he find any other way?" she asked but she knew she'd find no answer not now
Rarity could not comprehend what had happened "he sacrificed his life for us, for strangers" she said holding her hoof to her mouth in shock
Pinkie Pie shook her head "not strangers..." she said looking up with tears in her eyes "Friends" she exclaimed crying a river of tears
Discord had hung his head in silence before he turned to face his wife "my dear are you o..." his eyes began to widen in fear as his wife was nowhere in sight "Fluttershy, FLUTTERSHY WHERE ARE YOU..." his body began to shake "FLUTTERSHY!"
Im so sorry for this cliffhanger but it's crucial to the story.
Well anyway this was the second to last chapter which means next time this story will be over so I hope you all enjoyed and I can't wait to see ya all next time.
Oh and Happy Holidays everyone :)
