Here there everypony. Well we have reached 39 chapters and we still have a lot to go until the end, this one is long but will only get better as we keep going. Comment and enjoy.
Chapter 39: final fight
GOVERMENT HQ-VANISH'S ROOM
Vanish was walking left and right as he was bitting his hoof as he was thinking deeply about how easily he, black haze, and night shadow have won. He was starting to get really bored with how he was just sitting and enjoying his victory, vanish then hit his hoof at the wall "ugh! This is pointless! Why are we just sitting around and enjoying the moment! We should be going around this planet and taking the rest of it over! Instead we are just sitting here! And what is night shadow doing? He's just laying around and watching his "children" make stupid new buildings and banners in his honor! Well I've had it with waiting!" he finished.
He then makes his horn glow red and green as he then makes a purple portal appear in front of him, he smiles as he walks into it "well. If he can take a whole city on his own. Then I can take over the one place that he couldn't take", as he walks through the portal "and that is ponyville".
PONYVILLE-CANDERLOT
It was past midnight as the grand galloping Galla was soon coming to an end. Everypony that was there was leaving early as some were still staying. The main twelve were all relaxing in the ballroom at a table as they all waited for dillon and fluttershy, they all were talking amongst themselves.
"and then we slow danced and ate lots of food. It was sooooo much fun!" piny pie said as she was talking about what her and jack had did, "well i'm glad ya two had fun pinky. Sam and I had a real good time dancin as well. We also went and walked around the castle halls as we talked about just well stuff" applejack said.
As they all kept talking about what they did Corey glanced over to see dillon and fluttershy walk into the ballroom smiling and holding hand and hoof as they walked over to the large table, as they took a seat everyone smiled at them "well. Look who's in a happy mood" rainbow dash said "anything happen with you too?" she asked.
Fluttershy nodded at her as she then nuzzled dillon's chest "yes. This was the best night of my life" she said, she then leaned up and kissed dillon's cheek. "wow fluttershy. It looks like you and dillon must have had a very wonderful time in the royal gardens" twilight said, fluttershy laid her head on dillon as she turned to her friend "oh yes. And it gets even better" she said as she then lifted up her right wing "look".
As soon as everyone stares at her wing they all see a silver ring on her upper right feather, everyone gasps in awe at the sight "no way!" jack said "fluttershy. I-is that a...a wedding ring?" rarity asks her.
Fluttershy nodded at her "mhm. Dillon proposed to me" she said.
Everyone around the table then clapped for them as the two blushed madly, the group then got from there seats and did a huge group hug as they were so happy for the new couple. As soon as they finished group hugging they all looked at the clock and saw that it was getting late.
"oh man look at the time" sam said.
"wow it's one in the morning" Corey said.
The group all then decided to walk out of the ballroom and went on there way home.
As they all talked amongst each other twilight sparkle then saw princess celestia walking toward them, twilight then ran up to her "princess celestia!" twilight said as she stopped in her path.
Celestia smiled as she saw her star pupil "hello twilight. How is my favorite star student? Did you enjoy the party?" she asked her, twilight smiled and nodded at her "yup. We had a very wonderful time. And the best part. My two friends got engaged". Celestia smiled more as she heard the last of her sentence "that's very wonderful to here" she said with a large amount of joy in her voice, the group then gathered around her as they all greeted her and hugged her, dillon and fluttershy then told princess celestia about them getting engaged. As the main twelve were talking with princess celestia a royal guard pony ran up to her and tapped her.
"lady celestia" the guard pony said.
Princess celestia turned around and looked at the guard pony "yes. Is there something wrong?" she asked him, the royal guard then bowed as he then looked up at her "I Apologize for interrupting your conversation princess. But it is an utter emergency".
She looks at him with a uneasy look "what is it?" she said with a worried look.
The royal guard then gestured her to follow her as he ran to the entrance as she followed him, the main twelve looked at each other as they followed her. As they ran outside they saw him point at ponyville from the edge of the balcony.
They all stood next to celestia and saw what she was looking at and all had there mouths gasp at what they had saw. What they saw was ponyville covered in smoke and a few flames, the girls held there mouths up to see the sight before them.
The boys held onto there girls as they were still in shock as Clayton stepped forward with his fist clenched "any idea on who it is that's causing this?" Clayton asked the royal guard.
The guard nodded at him "yes. Some of my men have told me that it is a black alicorn wielding some type of blade in his mouth as he is using his magic to start the fires" he said.
Clayton gritted his teeth as he then turned to his friends, he then pulled out his fingerless gloves out of his suits jacket and put them on "I'm going down there to see what's going on" he said. Rainbow dash then flies up to his face "are you crazy!? You don't even know what could be doing all of this!" she said.
"I know. But I'm not gonna sit here and let this continue".
"then I'm going with you".
"no dashie it's too dangerous".
"no! I'm going with you. I lost you once and I'm not losing you again".
Clayton was about to protest until he sighed, "alright you can come with me. But stay close to me once we get into ponyville ok" he said to her. Rainbow dash nodded as Clayton then threw his fedora into the air as he then took off his dress jacket showing his black short sleeve shirt as he then pulled out his black kamina sunglasses from his pocket and put them on, "ok. Now let's get down there and raise a little hell" he said.
PONYVILLE
Vanish was burning down houses left and right with his magic as he was using his machete like a boomerang as it cut through the stands and some houses in the process. "hehehe. Now with the mane six out of my hair I can control all of ponyville for myself" he said as he kept destroying the town.
Meanwhile Clayton, rainbow dash, and a few royal guard ponies, Pegasus, and unicorns were heading down to ponyville to see what was causing all of the destruction. "so tell me. Is anypony still in ponyville?" Clayton asked one of the royal guards, the royal guard shook his head "no. We got them out just in time. But we can't be perfectly sure that everypony had gotten out safely" he finished. Hearing that made Clayton nervous and scared for the citizens of ponyville but it made him more determined to stop what was causing this.
As they all landed in the center of ponyville the commander of the royal guards turned to everypony.
"alright. We may have gotten the residents out of ponyville. But that doesn't mean that everypony is evacuated. So I want everypony to search high and low to find any other pony. Got it!".
"got it!" they all shouted in unison.
The commander nodded as they all then scattered around the burning town, Clayton and rainbow dash stuck together as they checked each and every home to see if anypony was still in danger.
"nothing so far" rainbow dash said.
"well that's good to hea-".
"HELP!".
The two then turned there heads to the sound of a pony calling for help, rainbow dash flew to were her and Clayton herd the sound and stopped at house that was on fire.
"HELP ME!" said the voice that was inside the burning house, rainbow dash then looked in one of the windows to see that it was scootaloo.
"scoots" rainbow dash said as she then flew down to Clayton. Clayton then looked at her "dashie what's wrong? Who's in there?" he asked her. Rainbow dash looks at him with scared eyes "it's scootaloo. She's trapped inside her closet by the flames" she said.
"shit!" Clayton said as he then looked at the burning house "dashie listen to me carefully. I'm going in there to get her ok".
Rainbow dash had a panicked look on her face.
"what! Clayton no! It's too dangerous!".
"dashie we don't have much of a choice. I'm going in there to get her".
"but Clayton".
"dashie I have to do this. The flames are too much for you to fly in there and get her. Don't worry I'm gonna come back alive. I promise you", rainbow dash started to cry. She didn't want the fear of losing Clayton a second time and she didn't want to let him get hurt, but she also didn't want scootaloo to be hurt either. Before she could say anything else Clayton kissed her as he then ran to the door of the burning house.
As he stopped at the front door he looked at it and saw that it was burning red and covered in flames. Clayton then backed up a bit as he then slammed into the door as he was then greeted with fire, Clayton coughed as he navigated his way upstairs and into scootaloo's room. "scootaloo!" Clayton yelled.
"who's there?" scootaloo said.
Clayton then ran over to the closet door and opened it as he then grabbed her and held her close "don't worry i've got you" he said to her. He then heard one of the supportment beams come down as it blocked there only exit, "oh fuck" Clayton said as heard scootaloo starting to cough. "dammit. This isn't good. She can't take much more of this" he thought.
Clayton then sees a window not to far from them, Clayton then looks at scootaloo in his arms as he then takes off his shirt and covers her in it. After he covers her gently in his shirt he then picks her up in his arms and holds her close to his bare chest as he then runs over to the window and jumps out of it.
Clayton lands on his back as lays scootaloo on the ground and picks himself up. He then leans down to the filly and takes the shirt from around her body as he puts it back on. Rainbow dash flies over to them and holds them both in her hoofs, "oh thank celestia you two are ok" she said.
Scootaloo then opens her eyes and looks up at rainbow dash "r-rainbow dash?" she says, rainbow dash then holds her in her hoofs "hey kid. I'm glad to see your alright" she said. Scootaloo then holds onto her "oh man I was so scared".
Rainbow dash then rubs some of the soot off of her face "I understand. It's a good thing that we were here to save you" she said, scootaloo looks at her confused "we?". Rainbow dash then points over to Clayton as scootaloo turns around to see him, she then gets out of rainbow dash's grip as she slowly walks over to him stunned "Clayton?" she said.
Clayton who was covered in a bit of soot leans down to her and held out his hand to her side "you ok scootaloo?" he asks her, scootaloo then runs up to him and hugs his leg as she cries a bit "Clayton!" she said as Clayton then picks her up and snuggled her sweetly as he whipped her tears away. "up. It's me scoots" he said as scootaloo lays her head on his shoulder, the three then walk away from the burning house as they see one of the royal guards looking around.
The guard sees them and runs over to them "oh you found somepony. Thank goodness" he said, Clayton then puts scootaloo down on the ground "yea. Rainbow dash and I looked all over and didn't find anypony else" he said. He nodded at them "well. We should head back to canderlot and take this one to the medical room to make sure that she isn't in any pain" he said. They all nodded as they then heard another pony's voice: HELP!".
The royal guard turned his head "that sounded like my commander" he said.
Clayton tapped him on the shoulder as the royal guard looked at him "will go get him for you" he said.
"thanks. Thai means a lot to me. I will take this filly to canderlot at once".
"alright. Will go save your commander".
The two then ran from scootaloo and the royal guard as he then took scootaloo and carried her as he went back to canderlot, rainbow dash and Clayton ran all over the burning town until they found the commander on the ground next to the burning clocktower. They ran over to him as Clayton lifted him up "are you alright?" rainbow dash asked him.
The commander nodded "yes. Just a bit in pain but it should be nothing" he said, rainbow dash nodded at him until suddenly the three of them then started to hear the clocktower start to come down above them. They all looked up as the clocktower started to come closer to there heads, "fuck!" Clayton said as he then pushed rainbow dash out of the way and gently threw the commander as the clocktower crashed over him.
Rainbow dash got up as she looked over at the commander then quickly shoot her head at the closcktower that was in front of her "CLAYTON!" rainbow dash cried as she flew over to the burning structure only to be knocked back by an explosion.
As she got up again she saw the clocktower only in flames as she fell to her hoofs and cried "Clayton" she whispered as she then glanced up and saw a black alicorn hovering over the huge burning fire, she instantly started to back away as the alicorn then landed on the ground and started to walk to her as he held his machete with his magic as he aimed it at her. "oh dear. Did I blow up that clocktower. Oh well that's just too bad hehehehahah" vanish said as rainbow dash was in tears as she kept backing up until she hit a large rock trapping her.
Vanish smiled darkly at her "well well. It looks like your trapped. Oh I love it when my enimies cower in fear. It's such a wonderful thing to look at" he said as he aimed his machete ever so close to rainbow dash's neck, "you know. I've always wondered what it would be like to have my way with a mare" he said as he then licked his lips "hehehe. I guess you'll will have to do". As vanish started to walk up to rainbow dash he was then hit by a burning piece of wood as he then turned around.
"who threw that at m-" vanish stopped talking as he looked at the fire to see a silhouette of a human figure walking out of the flames, vanish had a look of disbelief on his face as he got a better look of the figures face as he then dropped his weapon out of his magic grip and backed up in fear "no! No it can't be! I watched you die!" he said as kept backing up.
Clayton was walking out of the flames slowly as he had a look of ultimate rage in his eyes "you watched me die. Ll'l watch you DIE!" he said in a dark tone as he then ran at him and tackled vanish making the two teleport out of sight.
FOREST
Clayon and vanish teleported to an open Field that was covered in trees around them like an arena. The two backed away from each other as vanish made his machete appear next to him, Clayton then held out his right arm as he made his Yamato katana appear into his hand as he gripped it tightly.
Vanish looked at him still in disbelief "this can't be true! You can't be here! Your...your a ghost" he said, Clayton then gritted his teeth at him "oh really. Then can a ghost do this!" he said as he then made a blue aurora of energy from around his body as he then made his katana glow a rainbow color "sonic rainbow blade!" Clayton shouted as he then swung his katana making a rainbow shockwave come from the blade.
Vanish then teleported out of the way of his attack as it cut down a huge row of trees, Clayton looked all over the place for him as he was ready for him. Vanish then appeared from behind him in his human form as he got ready for the kill, as he brought down his machete Clayton then looked at his swords reflection and saw his sneak attack as he then rolled out of the way from vanish's blade.
Vanish then glanced at his rival as he held his machete at his side "ugh! To think that you would still be alive" vanish said, Clayton only smirked at him "well what can I say. I die hard". Vanish then started to grin a bit "well that may be true. But this time. I'm gonna make sure that you do stay dead!".
He then ran at him as Clayton cracked his neck as he charged at him "just who the hay do you think I am!" he said as the two then clashed there blades together. The both of them were gritting there teeth as they kept swinging at each other with each blow trying there best to kill the other, vanish then dropped kicked Clayton as he then raised his weapon at him.
Clayton then slashed at vanish's legs making him fall to his knee as Clayton then round house kicked him in the face making him hit a tree. Vanish got up dazed as he felt the blood from his head come down his face, Clayton only smiled at him "using dirty tricks won't help you here" he said.
Vanish only smiled at him "oh really now?" he said as he then snapped his fingers making a ring of fire appear around them, Clayton looked at the flames as he then turned to vanish. "now the two of us aren't going anywhere. Now we can have a real battle to the death" vanish said as he charged at Clayton "and this time. I will have your head at the hoof of my bed as my trophy!".
Clayton blocked vanish's attack only to be punched in the jaw by his free hand stunning him a bit as vanish took the oppertuiny to cut at his body, Clayton felt the stings of vanish's blade eat away at his skin as he then felt vanish back hand him across the face as he hit the dirt hard. As Clayton got up he then looked over to see his Yamato katana stuck in the ground a few feet away from him as he then looked over to see vanish run at him "looks like your unarmed!" he said in a mocking tone as he then started to swing at Clayton.
Clayton then started to backflip and doge all of vanish's attacks as he then landed on his feet. Clayon was breathing hard as vanish was getting ready to charge at him again, he then raises his arms as blue energy then forms around him making two swords come into his hands and five more in different colors circled around his body "secret technique: rainbow summon swords" he said as he then spun the black sword in his right hand backwards.
Vanish smiled as he then raised his right hand as a purple handle appeared in his hand as it then made a word like whip come out of the socket "hidden weapon: blade whip" he said as he then started to run at him as he then began to try and hit him with his blade whip, Clayton dogged his attacks as he used his rainbow summon swords as a shield to block each attack from the blade whip. The swords clashed as each one came into contact with one another.
This lasted for three minutes as vanish was starting to more and more enraged "I've had enough of this!" he shouted as he then made acid from over his blade whip as he then spun it over his head. Clayton then used his summoned swords to try and protect himself from the attack as the drops of acid hit his summoned swords causing them to degrade, vanish then stopped spinning his whip over him as he then swung it at clayton's degraded summoned swords breaking them all in one hit. "shit" Clayton thought as vanish then made his blade whip emit with electricity as he then process to hit Clayton with each swing.
Clayton falls to the ground writhing in pain after getting hit three times as he tries to get up vanish keeps hitting him "do you really think! That I'm going to let you survive! I will kill you and make you suffer for the rest of your life! And once i'm done killing you! I'm going to kill your friends as well! You will all make wonderful trophies when I'm don with you! Hahahhahah!" vanish said as he continued to swing at clayton, Clayton then raised his arm at vanish's blade whip as he wrapped his arm around it and held onto it as tight as he could.
Blood was coming out of his arm as the blade whip was around his skin cutting him. Clayton then looked over to see his katana as he then rolled over to it and pulled out of the ground and slashed at vanish's blade whip with full force breaking his whip in to pieces. Vanish looked at him with hate "you insignificant human!" he said, Clayton then staggered to his feet as he then looked at him with anger "shit! It looks like i'm all out of attacks to throw at him. What can I used against him?" he thought. He then glanced up at the night sky to see the full moon above them as he then thought of an idea "this...this is totally risky. But hell it's worthy it".
Vanish then started to run at him with his machete at the ready "time for you to die!" he shouted.
Clayton then closed his eyes as he then disappeared as vanish missed his mark on him, "what!?" he said as he then glanced all over the arena and didn't see him, Clayton then silently appeared behind him and then did a backflip kick on him launching vanish into the air.
"ahhh! What!? But how did he!?" vanish said as he was in the silhouette of the fullmoon. Clayton then holds his sword with both hands as he then emits a navy blue aurora around his body, his Yamato katanas blade then starts to glow a crimson red as he then teleports right above vanish as he then with lightning speed slashes at him twenty four times from several different angels and as then then teleports back above him and downward slashes him as Clayton then lands back onto the ground as he then places his sword back into it's sheath slowly as he then hears it "click" at the end.
He then looks up to see vanish falling from the sky as he hits the ground hard making a crater next to Clayton, the human walks up to vanish's massively damaged body as Clayton stares at him with cold serious eyes.
Vanish trying to cling onto a thin line of life looks back at him as blood drools out of his mouth "I-impossible...h-how...can...t-this be?" he said "just...what...are...you?", Clayton then leans down to his side "I'm a human. And I am your worst nightmare" he said.
"that...technique...w-what was that?" he asked him.
"something that I made up as a last resort. Ultimate technique: wutend blut voltmund. It means raging blood fullmoon".
Vanish only smiled at him "hehe...not bad...but even if I'm dead and gone...y-you...and your...friends...are all doomed". He said, Clayton looked at him puzzled "what are you saying?".
"night shadow...is now in control of your city...he is now...unstoppable...and he has y-your...sister".
"what!".
Vanish then looks at the night sky "your all...going to die...it's too bad...I won't be able to join in all of the fun...hehehe".
Clayton then grabs vanish by the neck "you son of a bitch! If your master did anything to my sister then I will kick his ass!" he threatened, vanish then placed his blood covered hand on his arm "you go ahead and try to stop him...your...only...just gonna...d-die" he said as he then closed his eyes with a smile on his face. His body then started to become covered in blue flames as he faded out of clayton's grip, Clayton then laid on his back as he then felt his body start to shut down.
He smiled as he then started to close his eyes "hehe. Well will see about that. Just who the hay...do you think we are" he said.
TWO DAYS LATTER
Clayton opened his eyes slowly as he awoke and looked at his surroundings. "ughhhh...w-were am I?" he said, he then heard a faint breathing sound as he looked to his left side to see rainbow dash asleep at the edge of his bed. Clayton then gently laid his hand on her head as he rubbed her ear a bit making her wake up.
As she yawned she then moved her hoof a bit "no. I don't wanna leave. I'm not going anywhere until Clayton is alright" rainbow dash said still half asleep, Clayton then moved his hand on her chin and leaned over to her as he kissed her lips softly "dashie" he said in a sweet and kind tone.
Rainbow dash then opened her eyes more as she saw clayton's loving smile "clayton?" she said. Clayton only nodded at her as she then launched herself at him "CLAYTON! YOUR ALIVE!" he yelled as she kissed all over his face. "yea. I'm alive dashie" he said as he held her in his arms, rainbow dash then had a serious face as she then poked at his chest "don't ever scare me like that again" she said.
Clayton nodded at her as he then rubbed her head. The two then heard the front door open as all of there friends walked inside the room, "bro! Your ok!" dillon said as he hugged him.
"oh thank goodness that your alright darling" rarity said, Clayton rubbed his head as he then leaned up and looked at his friends "hey guys. Ah man what happened last night?" he asked them.
"you were knocked out for two days" twilight said "princess celesita found you were we all saw you in the silhouette of the full moon". Spike then gave him a thumbs up "yea! We saw you when you did this really cool move!" he said.
Clayton then rubbed the dragons head as he then felt sam place his hand on his shoulder "so did you find out what happened at ponyville?" he asked him.
"yea I did".
"so what happened?" applejack said.
Clayton then rubbed his eyes "vanish was attacking the town", everyone gasped when they heard him say vanish's name "but why would he want to come here?" twilight asked. Clayton only shrugged "beats me. All I can say is that he won't be bothering anymore".
"what do you mean?" Corey asked him.
Clayton then laid back as he looked at the celling.
"I killed him".
Everyone was then dead silent as the words left clayton's mouth, the silence lasted for only four seconds until jack spoke up smirking a bit "he got what he deserved" he said. Everyone else nodded in agreement "yeah. That's what he gets" dillon said, Clayton closed his eyes as he smiled "well I'm glad that you all are happy that he's gone. But".
Dillon looked at him "but?".
"but were not finished. When he was saying his last words to me. He told me that night shadow had taken over new port city". "WHAT!" the boys all said in unison "yea" Clayton said "he also said that he has my sister as well", he then crossed his arms as he began to be in deep thought as he then sighed "and...as much as I can't stand lucifer. She's still my older sister. And I have to go get her out of night shadows grip". Dillon then sat on the edge of the bed "no Clayton you don't have to do that" he said.
"oh really? I guess your gonna tell me that you would like to volunteer instead?" he said to him.
"as a matter a fact that was what i was going to say".
Clayton looked at him with a shocked expression "what! Are you out of your mind Dillon? you don't even know were my sister is being held. She could be anywhere in the city", dillon then had an unamused look on his face "bro think about what you just said. If night shadow has taken over the city. Then what is the one building that he would use as his base?". Clayton thought about this for a minute as he got what he was talking about "the government H.q building" he said.
Dillon nodded at him "right. Now all we need to do is go there and find out what floor that she is on and save her", fluttershy then flew up to dillon "b-but dillon. What if n-night shadow has a trap set for us if we try to save clayton's sister?" she said. Dillon thought about this for a bit as he then looked at her "well. We can go as a four team group instead?", everyone thought that sounded like a better idea "ok it's settled then. Will pick who will go to earth and rescue Lucy" Clayton said.