Mission Accomplished
As both Luke and Dameon rushed towards Canterlot, Celestia sent a message to Twilight in a panic. Detailing that a creature was escaping, but not telling exact what it was.
Finally, as the Elements of Harmony were in the castle, Luke and Dameon were in front of the front gate. They scowled at the guards that were there before Luke formed a ball of pure energy in his hand, and pushed his arm forwards. The energy ball went flying and, as soon as it connected to the gate, blew the giant gate open and they both rushed through it.
Everybody stumbled as an explosion rocked the castle. "What was that?" asked Twilight, panicking at the thought that the creature somehow managed penetrated into the castle.
"I, have no idea." stated Celestia calmly, she quickened her pace, though, to quickly get to the room where she locked up the Elements of Harmony.
Both Luke and Dameon raced towards the castle, before being blasted by magic into a building. They both rolled out of the rubble and glared up at the sky. Luna, princess of the night, flew there, sending a withering glare towards them, the sunlight sending an imposing shadow onto them.
"We don't have time for this!" roared Dameon. He waved his hand slightly before saying, "Distract her, but don't kill her."
They slowly got up and ran towards the castle. Luna was about to follow, but she felt something holding her back. She looked down and saw a tall pony, very thin, holding her down with a strange appendage. It's cutie mark was a circle with an 'X' through it.
She was about to blast it with magic, when the appendage coiled and slammed her into a building. She groaned as she stood back up, before she heard a static haze assault her ears. She raised her hooves to her ears and blasted a wave of magic after the strange pony. The pony slammed backwards into the building, before dissolving and appearing in front of her, swinging the multiple appendages from it's back slamming her into another building, grabbing her, pulling her, smacking her randomly, a flurry of limbs. She was smacked into another building, she stood up shakily, and made a concentrated blast of her magic and pushed it out into a humongous wave of pure energy. The pony stood there, before fading just as it came near it, and reappeared in front of Luna. Energy spent, she had not time to move as the appendages wrapped around her, and with a quick push to her temple, knocked her unconsciousness.
Luke and Dameon got into the castle just as Discord finished his riddle. Discord started to teleport, but a split second before he could, Dameon shouted out, "Cousin!"
Discord barely managed to look back at the new entrants, before the teleportation took effect. "Damnit," Luke shouted annoyed, "We missed him." Before looking at the ponies there.
Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity looked at them before racing towards them, intent on hugging them to death. Before they could get close enough, a pillar of ice rose out of the ground to stop the racing ponies.
"Damn, can't exactly have you ruining a family reunion now can we?" snarled Dameon.
Both of them raised their hands before calling out, "Miss, Scientist, Pinkemena, Jeffrey, Torturer, and Boss. Distract them all!"
The air around them shimmered before six forms dropped out of the air, onto the floor. The first one to stand up quickly brushed itself off, before stating, "Now Luke, Dameon, darlings, you know better than to call me when you don't need help."
The dust cleared around the first form and showed another Rarity, though this one had a scar across her face. "Oh, what's this?" came the second form's voice.
At least, before a purple blur appeared and slammed, accidentally of course, into Twilight.
"Ha ha ha! Another me, imagine all the experiments we could do!" said another Twilight this one having multiple cuts over her cutie mark.
"Yeah yeah yeah, Dameon, at least allow me to grind one of them up!" said the third form another Pinkie, though her hair was straight, and seemed to have lost all color to her. Add to the fact that she was hanging off of Dameon added to the strangeness.
"No! Pinkemena, what happened to the other bodies I gave you?" asked Dameon, thoroughly annoyed.
"They were already dead!" said an indignant Pinkemena.
"Yeah, you already made them go to sleep, that's my job!" came the fourth form. The dust cleared around it, and a pony stumbled forward, knife in it's mouth. A smile was cut into it's face and it's eyes were ringed in black it's cutie mark was a knife covered in blood.
"Oh ho ho! Looks like the old gang is back together!" came the fifth form.
The dust settled, and there was another Fluttershy, she rolled her neck back giving it a loud crack. "At least now we can at least figure out who's the strongest!"
Finally the last form rose and took into the air. Another Rainbow Dash flew next to Dameon and Luke. "You called?"
"Yes. You see those others over there?" asked Luke pointing over to the group of seven ponies looking in what seemed to be awe.
"Yeah, so? We were weaklings back then." stated the copy of Rainbow Dash.
"Yes, but they have a princess with them. You're job is to distract, not kill!" came Dameon's order. "We'll be at a little... family reunion. Also, if you manage to knock all of them out before our family reunion is done," started Dameon, "You may cause hell. Oh, wait, I forgot to add a little help."
Dameon started to mutter and a flash of light appeared, and a form fell, "Oh ho ho? What's this? Finally being called in? Oh, must really want to win this." came the seventh voice. There, standing in her full grace, was Nightmare Moon, glaring down at the seven.
"As Dameon said before," started Luke, "Don't kill, knock them out, then you can have your fun with the city."
The seven around them smile a cruel and evil smile. They all turned towards the seven ponies there, and charged.
Luke and Dameon ducked out of the room, rushing as fast as they could towards where they felt the teleportation magic go towards, ignoring the black spots dancing in front of them.
Nightmare Moon started off the attack, sending a large wave of energy scattering the assorted ponies. The copy of Rainbow Dash took to the air, tackling the real Rainbow Dash out of the air and slamming her to the ground. Jeff rushed at Applejack, slashing wildly with his knife. The copy of Fluttershy just raised an eyebrow before saying, "Boo." causing the real Fluttershy to faint. The copy of Rarity just scoffed slightly, before levitating a knife out of her saddlebags and slashing after the real Rarity. Pinkemena smiled down at Pinkie before they both disappeared from sight, a few seconds later, confetti and organs were flying. Both Pinkie and Pinkemena has cannons, Pinkemena's shooting organs, while Pinkie was firing confetti. Finally a magical duel was being waged between both Twilights.
"Please, I am your equal in every way and then some!" cried out Prof Twilight, smiling insanely before sending a ghostly image of a knife flying towards Twilight. She ducked under it and watched as it embedded itself deep into the opposite wall. (From now on, I dub the copy of Twilight, Prof. Twilight. Along with the copies of each pony, their names that Dameon and Luke called out.)
Nightmare Moon and Torturer were busy fighting Celestia. The waves of magic from Nightmare, and the sudden attacks from the pink haired pony kept her on edge.
Luke and Dameon were gasping for air. The seven summonings took a lot of energy out of them, they were pushing themselves to the limit with just the four of them, they divided the rest of their power to summon the last four, barely leaving them conscious, but they had to get to Discord, their cousin.
They both remembered when Zalgo and Purification came back from a their 'trip'. They had orders to tell Dameon and Luke to find two more people, their cousins, scattered through different worlds. When asked about their multiple cousins they had said that some were born from their uncle, others by another uncle. The only way to find them, is the strange birth mark on each of their dominant hand. The crumbling castle and wilting crop. Luke and Dameon had similar birth marks, on Dameon's left hand was what appeared to be an 'x' in each of the four areas on the outside of the x there was an arrow, a sword, a cannon, and a map. On Luke's right hand was a scythe that was swinging towards a blob, but, strangely, they had disappeared when they had, 'died'.
So it seemed as if they had two jobs so far, to balance worlds, and to find their cousins. They continued to push their body to the limits as they ran towards a large hedge maze.
Nightmare, Jeff, Boss, Prof Twilight, Miss, Torturer, and Pinkemena stood over the seven unconscious bodies. "Well," Jeff rasped out, "Looks like we got some free time." They all turned towards the exit, and raced out into the city. Screaming and shouting soon followed.
"Oh, this is the most fun I've had in a while now!" Pinkemena shouted sending a scalpel towards a guard in golden armor.
"Of course it is, this is the most time we've been allowed out to cause this chaos." rasped Jeff, slashing at a guard's face, before dropping the knife in his mouth, bit into the guards spear, and turned to slam the point into the guard's ribs.
Finally, they appeared in front of the maze. Despite their, death, their bodies became used to the act of breathing, and was still a requirement. If they didn't breathe, it was as if they were actually holding their breath for a long period of time, but not running out of air. That didn't stop them gasping for air though. They both collapsed at the entrance.
"Note to selves," Dameon gasped out, "Never summon more than six of our friends unless in a dire situation."
"True that." was all Luke grunted, "I'm still wondering what happened to Slendy, though."
Meanwhile in a cafe amongst the chaos of Canterlot
An Eldrich Abomination sneezed, despite lacking a nose. He looked around the cafe through his disguise as an unimportant customer before going back to sipping his tea in his hoof. Outside in an alley among the garbage Princess Luna groaned.
Back at the Maze
"Got caught up with something? I don't know. Anyways, back to business," stated Dameon standing up, along with Luke and went inside the maze. They immediately got lost.
"Fuck this!" Luke exclaimed, "We do this either the Yogscast's way, or my way."
Dameon thought for a moment, then said, "Yogscast's way." He then walked along the hedge on the left side and just kept walking, any turn left they followed.
After an hour of that, Dameon just roared, shouting "Your way!", raised his hand, and sent a blast of fire forwards, tearing a gigantic hole through the maze. "Oh, shit! Warn me next time," screamed Luke as another blast through the maze.
Canterlot Castle
Twilight was the first to awaken. At first the world was all one large white blur, then slowly focused in. She saw the knife slashes on the wall, small craters, and shattered windows, glass littering through the hall. She stood up shakily, and walked towards her friends, attempting a spell to wake them up. As soon as they were all awoken, Twilight told them that she solved the riddle before Discord had disappeared before Luke and Dameon came. After that, they ran quickly towards the maze. When they got there, they saw the carnage and burning maze.
They quickly ran through, or flew through, the multiple fiery holes in the hedge walls. Finally they got to the middle and managed to overhear Luke and Dameon's conversation with Discord.
"So," Discord started, "You're saying that we're some kind of, sons or daughters of an ancient deity?"
They couldn't see, but Luke nodded, "Yeah. So the question is, will you join us?"
"I don't think I will."
"Then you will be imprisoned again. We will ask you this again later, we'll see what you have to say then." stated Luke icily. They walked towards one of the non burned hedges and disappeared. It was then that the Elements decided to come in.
Discord noticed them quickly, cursed, and disappeared as well. "Gah, so close, if only they talked for a little bit longer!" groaned Twilight. She frowned suddenly, "Wait, maybe.." she trailed off, before continuing, "I think I got the riddle wrong."
"What?" asked Rainbow Dash, thinking she heard wrong.
"I said, I think I got the riddle wrong. Maybe, it meant where all of this started." she said motioning around her, "and when we first started to get the Elements. If that was the case, then we first learned about the Elements at the library in Ponyville."
"So what? Straight to Ponyville?"
"I guess."
Ponyville
"So, now we wait." muttered Dameon. They were both hiding out in one of the upside down houses that Discord had decided to have fun with.
Two Hours Later
Dameon slammed his fist into an already growing hole in the wall of the house. "This is taking for-ee-e-ever!" he whined.
"Shut up." moaned Luke, closing his eyes and rubbing his temples to stop the dull throb that started in his head ten minutes ago.
Suddenly, Luke's eyes shot open, "They're here!" he said in a sing-song voice.
"Fina-fucking-ly." groaned Dameon, before kicking open the door to the house just in time to watch, a rainbow beam fire at Discord. "Hup-hup!" Dameon grunted as he placed his cupped his hands together. Luke raced forwards, using Dameon's hands as a springboard, and launched himself into the air, cackling. He got into the path of the rainbow just as it was about to hit the draconequus, Luke sprang a shield that bounced the rainbow away and off into the sky.
"Now Discord," Luke said plainly, "What is your choice now that you had more time to think it over?"
Discord was humiliated. He had just escaped from a stone prison, when these two, creatures (He wouldn't call them dragons, since they most definitely did not act like dragons.) made a deal with him. After listening to the deal, and thoroughly rejecting it, he realized that he didn't have enough time to do as he planned. He couldn't separate the Element Bearers and couldn't switch their personalities. Basically those two creatures had ruined his plan!
"Fine, fine!" Discord snapped, "I'll take your stupid deal!" He stuck out his right paw, the one with the castle ruins birthmark, and shook hands with Luke.
"Excellent!" roared Luke as Luke, Dameon, and Discord was enveloped in light.
They found themselves in a white room. Luke and Dameon in their halfling form, the flaming skull and blue skin version of them. "Oh, so that's what happens when they accept." muttered Dameon.
Suddenly the old man had appeared. "Ah, so you managed to get one of your cousins on your side." He started before being interrupted by Discord.
"And who the hell are you?"
"I am a friend of your father." The old man stated in a monotonous voice, before continuing, "Now that you have accepted the deal, you have been granted two powers along with your chaos magic. You will have control of the earth and wood."
"Wood? What kind of element is that?" asked a rather confused Dameon.
"It will be for later use." the old man droned. "For now, I shall guide the next portal to where your last cousin you need is."
"Wait, what about Discord's weapon? You gave each of us one." chimed in Luke, "Well you actually gave me more practice with my ice powers, but I managed to make a bow of light."
"Of course."
Discord was at a loss now. Apparently this man was a friend of his father, a creature he hadn't seen at all. (For what other thing would fall in love with a draconequus?) Suddenly in front of him was a table that had multiple weapons. With the three watching him, he thought that it would be rude to not take a weapon. The weapon the immediately caught his eye was a sword that was around, 4 feet long. The hilt only 9 inches long. The long blade gleamed slightly as Discord picked it up, mesmerized. The table disappeared from Discord and appeared in front of Dameon and Luke, who were both pleasantly surprised that they would choose a weapon from this table.
Dameon didn't waste any time, he picked up a strange sword, a chain sword. "Cool." was all Dameon said as he swung it, the sword acting like a whip. It suddenly came into contact with the table. The corner that was hit set fire immediately.
Dameon eyes widened at the fire, before the old man put it out. "Please refrain from allowing it to come into contact with anything flammable."
Luke looked around the table before his eyes settled on a scythe with another hook at the end. He picked it up, griping it by the middle and slightly above the end, before swinging it 180 degrees. He noticed something near the beginning of the lower blade, a button by the looks of it. He pressed it out of curiosity. The top of the scythe fell slightly, a chain connecting it to the staff, before the rest staff to broke into segments of chains. He was now holding a Kusarigama or a chain scythe. He started to swing one end, then the other. He smirked his appreciation.
"That is all for now." the old man stated, "The portal is opening. I will try my best to adjust your course so you go to the right world."
All three of them looked at the old man, taking their eyes away from their new weapons... just as the portal opened. After it sucked Luke and Dameon in, Discord finally realized what was happening and shouted, "What the hell have you bastards gotten me into!" before he too was swallowed by the portal.
When they were all gone, the whiteness of the room faded, and in its place was clouds. The old man seemed to change form. While before he seemed to be made of the multiple stars across the night sky, he changed to a tanned man, about in his 30s, brown hair, and a long beard that went to his chest. Around him he saw dozens of people wearing white robes. "Well? What are you all waiting for, go back to your jobs." the old man finally said.
With a chorus of 'Yes, my lord!' all of the people flew off, as snow white wings were on their backs. The old man sighed before a golden throne appeared beneath him. He sat down and a mirror appeared to his left side. He watched as Luke, Dameon, and Discord traveled through the portal. He forced his eyes away from the mirror to look over his kingdom. The pearl gates and the fissure. He saw a dozen angels, for that was what the winged people were, checking lists as people, normal humans, lined up. Some going past the gates, others walking towards the fissure, being pushed into it by creatures with horrid red skin.
The old man sighed again before muttering to himself, "I need more angels to look over the gates.