Chapter 7 (The Ballroom Chaos)
Espie went to look for the rest of the Mane Six, blasting spells at the wolves, repelling them from her pathway.
Ethos followed her and bashed the incoming wolves that were coming close to her, sending each bashed wolf in the opposite direction using his strong legs while propelling backwards to avoid the jaws and claws of the Timberwolves.
Running around the ballroom, they managed to find the rest of the Mane Six and assembled with the three princesses. They prepared to have a sneak attack while Malyne was not looking.
"Let's go!" Ethos blurted out to the group, accidentally alerting the back-faced hooded rider, ruining their plans of their attack. "Oops…"
"Ohohoho! What a surprise to see you again, Stealth, now going against me in your new form together with your friends. You all think that you can stop me? I'll show you my true unstoppable malignant power!" Malyne laughed wickedly before using the power of her staff to fuse the nearby Timberwolves together into one giant Timberbeast before she flew onto the top of its back, riding and controlling every movement of the minacious beast.
Princess Celestia and Luna started to shoot their magic spells at the Timberbeast while the Mane Six transformed into their forms. Each of the Mane Six transformed with each of their variant element of harmony transformation, powering up into their beautiful forms joining the princesses to attack shortly afterwards.
The spirit duo placed their adroit minds to work and created a battle tactic to attack Malyne. Espie concentrated her magic into an immense ball, allowing Ethos to bash it off her paws as effective projectiles, hitting the face of the giant.
Progressively reducing the ferocity and size, they managed to defeat the giant, making it tumble over and Malyne evasively jumping off to avoid being squashed.
She was left standing with her staff, holding it trembling. "You will pay for this!" She targeted it at the group with rage, preparing to unleash her wrath of darkness on them.
Espie, having a quick reaction and intuition, noticed that she wanted to fully annihilate the group, shot a powerful shockwave of light and quelled her before she made her move. The staff dropped onto the ground with a metallic thud onto a heap of grey dust.
"Whew, that was one tough fight, right everyone?" Espie commented, panting. The rest, also feeling breathless from the battle, nodded their head in agreement.
"Well, I guess there's no more gala for the night. Everypony is scared off…" her remark made them laugh. "Seriously though, let's clean up!"
"No need for that. I will have somepony to get the ballroom cleaned." Princess Celestia informed her.
"What about this?" Ethos picked up Malyne's staff, brushing off the dust and held it in his paws.
"Take care of it Ethos. I want to check out what it might be capable of."
Glancing around the messy ballroom, Espie spotted a gaping hole and pointed it out to Princess Celestia. "What should we do about that big hole?"
"This is one of the problems in the annual chaos we have to deal with. I will get somepony to help me repair the wall too." Princess Celestia reassured her before they left the ballroom.
Reaching Ponyville in the morning, they returned to their homes to change, lethargic from another chaos of the annual Canterlot Gala. The two spirits followed Fluttershy and returned to her cottage.
"Brrr!" Espie shivered while she took off her hoodie, shaking her head and body, making sure that her fur was not messy before keeping it.
Ethos, feeling some sense of elegance with the scarf on, decided to continue wearing it just to look slightly heroic.
Fluttershy and the two spirits sprawled on the sofas, loafing around and casually chatting to each other, trying to destress from the Gala incident.