aloha! another chatper of malistaire is magic for you! just one more and the whole story is done. c: thank you all so much for reading, it means so much to me! in this chapter we finally get to dragonspyre whew i can't believe we've finally made it! i also say whew because i had chili today and well let's just say my room could use an airing out haha. also slight warning for violence in this chapter, there's a fight scene, but it's not too horrible, it's not really graphic or snything, just thought i'd give a heads up. okay enough rambling go ahead and read it and hopefully enjoy it! :D
chapter seven: dragonspyre calling
twilight ad company stepped out of the red portal and were immediately overcome with shock. dragonspyre was in really bad shape, like bulk biceps when he has too many cheat days. well, if bulk biceps was an entire world with crumbpling buildings and an active volcanom, and hundreds of monsters crawling around his body like VIRUSES, like something out of somosis jones, and hundreds of spiders. oh great. MORE SPIDERS
"wow... this place doesn't look good!" said fluttershy. they even saw dr. whooves running up the ramp to the door and into the portal, saying "i'm running for my life!" even he wasn't brave enough.
the mares walked down into the basilica, which is an offshoot of silicon valley. there, they found profssor cyrus!
"prof cyrus?" pinkae said, confused? "what are you doing here?" in the light form the flowing lava, she could easily see how chimplike his face was.
"i'm here because malisataire is my brother, and i'm going to help you get to him," coyrus explained, pulling a banana out of his pocket and eating it.
"oh, cool!" pinkie said excitedly. she couldn't wait to impress her professor!
"so, professor drake," twilight said, "can you take us there now?"
"certainly," said cyrus.
"oh, not quite!" croaked a familiar voice. the mares turned around to see professor halston balestrom hopping after them. he'd apparently followed them through the door from ravenwood!
"halston?" cyrus asked. "what are you doing here?"
"im going to exact my revenge on you, drake, for stealing what could have been my greatest student!" the frog said angrily.
"professor balestrom, i would've loved to have been your student, but you said that i would be better suited for storm!" twilight argued.
"not you!" halston snapped. he pointed at pinkie pie. "the one who blew the fartleby! this pink pony released the most devastating meteorological phenomenon wizard city has ever seen, and you, cyrus, TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME!" the frog crept up to cyrus, pointing his cane at the man's throat.
"now, now, halston, calm down," cyrus tried to reason with the diminutive amphibian, walking backward and waving his hands in the air "is lsing a student really a good reason to become physically threatening?"
"YES!" halston croaked again and his tongue darted out to catch a passing fly. all the mares went, "EWWWWWW"
"even if i hadn't chosen myth, i wouldn't have chosen storm just because you're so gross!" pinkie exclaimed.
halston whipped his head around. "WHY, YOU INSOLENT-"
cyrus took the oppprtunty to pick up halston, the frog croaking madly the whole time. cyrus screamed for a short moment before hurling his fellow profsor into the boiling lava. halston quickly cooked upon hitting it and exploded in a bounty of frog's legs all over the basilica.
"well, sheee-yoot!" cheered prospector zeke. "hey, eloise! break out the greens - dinner's come early!"
the mares watched in stunned horror at the shower of frogs legs. fluttershy even got a little hungry watching them and bit her tingue.
"professor? are you alright?" pinkie asked, looking at cyrus, who then suddenly collapsed!
"professor drake?" the ponies cried, concerned.
"urgh," cyrus grunted. he grabbed his leg. there was a small dot of blood forming under his robes. "that blasted frog stabbed me with his cane - it mustve contained poison dart frog poison. ive been poisoned" he surmised.
"oh no!" pinkie cry.
"i think i'll be alright," cyrus said, standing with flutershy's help. "if... if we hurry and get to the great spyre, then straight back to ravenwood, i don';t think it'll be fatal."
"well then let'sgo!" said twilight, and cyrus pointed them to a portal. they ran through it and wound up in another academy.
"this is dragonspyre academy," cyrus explained. "it was the first magic school. ravenwood is it's counter-aah!" he gasped, grasping his body and lurching.
"professor?" pinkie asked, scared.
shaking, cyrus steadied himself. "we attended here... together..." he said, looking at the ruins.
the group hurried over to a young dragon with a basket strapped to his back, poor thing. "oh please, just kill me." he said.
"greetings, kind dragon," twilight said, having a soft spot for the dragon because of spike. she also rememered that she, too, had forgotten to feed him before she left. "would you kindly fly us up to the top of this volcano? we need to get up there... urgently."
"no," the dragon whined. "im done carrying people around. im only twenty and my back's already fubared."
twilight's brow furrowed. but fluttresht walked up ot the dragon and said nicely, "hello mr dragon! my, what beautiful red scales you have! they look ust like rubies!"
"uh, thanks, lady." said the dragon.
"you said your back was hurt? i'm experienced in animal massage, maybe i could help you!'
"err, i'm not so sure," the dragon said, shy.
"think nothing of it!" flutterxhy said, and walked onto the dragon's back and started walking.
"wait, wait, you're gonna - ooooooo!" said the dragon, who started to relax. he practicaly melted on the sidewalk. a big grin spread across his face as the little yellow pegasus worked out all the knots and bunions from his back, and the noises of cracks and pops echoed across the deserted campus.
"you're such a nice dragon!" fluttershy said sweetly.
"wow," said cyrus. "ive never seen anyone so gifted with animals before."
after a few minutes, flutterhsy got off the relaxed and happy dragon. "feel better?"
"yes, very much!" the dragon flexed his wings. "aaaah, i haven't felt this good in ages! thank you, yellow one. as a token of my grstitude, i will fly you and your friends up to the spire!" he said. "oh, and mr dragon was my father. call me ralph."
"thank you, ralph!" thanked twilight. "let's go, girls!"
everyone climbed intot he basket on ralph's back, and he flew them through volcanic caverns and up to a dock on the spire. the mares got out, waved goodbye to ralph, and entered malistaire's labyrinth.
it was dark and humid inside, and rarity stayed on her guard, just in case they came across david bowie.
"i wonder where malistaire could be," said twilight,
"he'll probably be in the crown of fire, at the very top," cyrus explained before coughing and grunting a pained breath.
the mares made theirt way further up the volcano, past wraiths, mini dragons, snd more spiders. but unfortunately during the trip fluttershy stepped on a tarantula. and goop went everywhere, epecially on cyrus' face, and he glared at fluttershy. but his dry old man skin absorbed the goop, and did you know tarantulars are venomous? because they are and the venom added to the poison and cyrus started getting sicker by the second. they had to hurry.
after several hours of navigating the tricky, rocky volcano halls, and fighting numerous enemies, the ponies and the professor finally reached the bigass doors to the crown of fife. after rarity placed a crystal on a astand the doors opened and they went inside. after going through a series of bigass doors they reached a room with a dragon looking inside, and... standing across the rom... was malistaire fockin' drake, with rainbwo death standing by his side, her arms wrapped around him. they looked at the group with a mixture of hatred anmd sultryness, like a lot of evildoers do.
"hello, twilight sparkle." hissed malostufe. :i see you're not alone... you've brought your friends.. and my brother, cyrus."
as if on queue, cyrus staggered from the poison and the venom and the volcanic ash in the air and fluttershy helped him, scared. "hah hah, who seems to be quite the worse for wear." said malistware.
"cut the crap, malistaire!" twilight snapped. "you will never take equestrias magic - my friends and i have arrived to stop you once and for all!"
"seems you're one short." malistaire, arching his brow.
"yeah," twilight said, mad, "that's because YOU TURNED OUR FRIEND RAINBOW DASH AGAINST US AND SHE CAST HELEPHANT AT ME, BUT APPLEJACK TOOK IT INSTEAD, NOW SHE's DYING IN A HOSTIPAL BED IN RAVENWOID!"
rainbow death's face fell slightly. did she look... concerned? surprised? regretful? regardless, malistaire cakcled. it was... hhhot. "hah hah hah! helephant! i'm proud of you, my pupil~" he said, "as for YOU," he bellowed down at the other ponies, "it's because of you that i've lost my closest confidante, my old right hand man... my greatest friend."
twilighjt widened her eyes, sadly. "lord nightshade...?"
"he's DEAD!" malistaire yelled. "he died from his wounds!"
twilight couldn't sya she didn't feel remorse. the doddering necromancer clearly felt a strong friendshup with the winged skeleton, and, being a strong proponent of friendhsip herself, she couldn't bear the thought of ending one by death from her own hoives. "that's it!" twilight shouted, and flew up into the sky, and zapped amlistare with her horn. the old man shriekd and looked like he was getting an xray, and rainbow death watched, torn between helping her new partner in crime or helping her friends, one of whom she just learned was dying in a hoispitoil bed in ravenwood. gritting her teeth, she flew over and knocked twoilight out of the air.
the purple unicorn slammed into a stone wall, leaving a giant crack and a cloud of dusht. the dragon coiled around the voilcano started to awoken.
"twilight!" pinkie gasped. she looked at her professor. cyrus nodded. "i'll be alright. go help her." he said, and pinkie galloped over to her friend. twilight was unconscious. she glared up at malistaire. "you're gonna pay for this, you wrinkled old focking!" she yelled, and ran up to him and bit his arm.
"YEAOUWCH!" he screamed.
rarity joined in by fighting rainbow death, flinging sharp diamonds at her once friend, but rainbow death was spry and spunky and deflected them with ease. flittershy settled cyrus down on the ground against a wall and, once she was certain he was safe, flew off to help pinkie.
malistaire grabbed his dragon rider staff and bopped pinkie in the face, causing her to fall off his arm, but she had already chewed a pretty large hole in his robes.
"gasp! pinkie pie!" fluttershy said, and snapped her tail at malisatire's face.
"AAAHH!" he screamed, grabbing his face in pain. (horse tails to the face hurt. a lot. be careful next time you pick a horses hooves, readers.)
rainbow death swooped down and kicked rarity in the belly, and she slammed into a wall as well. rainbow flew over to malistaire and used her wing power to blow fluttershy away.
"aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" screamed fluttershy in her extremely dainty voice.
twilight's eyelids fluttered open. she was lying in a pool of melted chocolate. she looked at her friends, they were losing!
"g... girls!" she said, weakly. then, before her very eyes...
rarity jumped to her hooves. "TAKE THIS, YOU MAREFRIEND BLASTING COCK!" she screamed, and jumped at rainbwo death, impaling her in the belly with her horn.
"RAINBOW! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" twilight shrieked.
just when thhings started to look their bleakest, two heroes entered the crown of fire: headmaster ambrose and princess celestia!
END OF CHAPTER SEVEN~