Hi everypony, and welcome to another chapter.

I'm glad everyone loved my last chapter and I thank all of you for your comment on the end question, it's made me feel a lot better.

By the time you all read this, I'll be on my way on Holiday back to Gran Canaria. As always, I won't be writing during that time, but I'll start when I get back.

Anyway, on with the chapter.

Chapter 67: The Bitch is Back – part 2

Blaze and I charged towards each other until Blaze leaped towards me with his horn glowing brightly. But instead of leaping at him, I decided to drop and slide under him.

While Blaze leaped over me, my hoof glowed green and I threw it up at Blaze's stomach, it struck him hard in his body and it sent Blaze flying until his back hit the ground. I stood back up and turned around to face him.

Blaze groaned before he got back up and turned around to face me. "Nice moves, now let me show you what I can do!" Blaze said with a dark grin before his horn glowed again.

Suddenly, the dark clouds above the town gathered into one spot and a powerful bolt of lightning shot down at me. Seeing this, I quickly leaped out of the way just before the lightning struck the ground where I stood. More bolts kept shooting down at me and I kept dodging them with everything I had, I even had to take into the air at some points.

But eventually, I saw an opportunity to use this attack against Blaze. I saw another powerful bolt shot down towards me, but this time, I didn't try to dodge it, I let it come towards me. Once it got close enough, I used my Elemental power to actually catch the bolt in green energy and held it between my hooves, it took the shape of a large ball and struggled to get loose.

Knowing it wasn't gonna stay caught for long, I quickly turned around to face Blaze and threw the ball down at him. Surprised by this, Blaze didn't react quick enough to avoid it and the lightning ball struck him. Blaze grunted in pain as the power of the bolt made him fly back hard into one of the cottages and crash straight through the wall.

I flew over to the cottage and landed outside the hole that Blaze made when he hit the wall, I tried to see him through the dust cloud, but I could see or hear anything. Suddenly, I saw a pair of eyes flash red through the cloud and a kitchen knife shot out towards me.

I quickly dropped to the ground as it flew over my head. Blaze then emerged from the dust cloud holding a bunch of knives with his magic. My eyes widened at this. "Aw crap." I said out-loud before Blaze rushed out to me.

I leaped backwards before Blaze started swaying and jabbing the knives at me, trying to strike me with them. It was hard, but I managed dodge his attacks, I wasn't really one to let myself get cut by knives.

As Blaze swung another one at me, I used my Element energy to make my hoof glow green and protect it from getting damaged, I then shot my hoof at the incoming knife and knocked it away hard. Blaze swung another one at me and I used my other hoof to catch it by its handle.

I was now standing on my hind-legs with a knife in my grasp. As Blaze kept swinging more knives at me, I used the one knife I had to block their attacks and sometimes knock more away out of Blaze's control. It wasn't long until Blaze had no knives left.

Blaze growled before a smirk suddenly appeared on his face, his horn glowed again before all the knives I knocked away came back and they all shot towards me. I then quickly formed a forcefield around myself and they all bounced off, one or two managed to stab through the forcefield, but they didn't get deep enough to touch me.

I then pushed my forcefield away and it disappeared while disintegrating the knives, I looked at Blaze and smirked. "Is that all you've got?" I asked him.

Blaze then smirked at me before his horn glowed brightly again. Suddenly, I felt a strong rumble under my hooves, I quickly shot up into the air and a bunch of large thorn-filled vines shot up from the ground. The lives grew upwards and tried to grab me, but I kept dodging their attempts.

I flew high up in the air as more vines came up from the ground, they kept shooting towards me to try and grab me, but I was too quick for them. However, eventually one managed to wrap itself around my hoof, I felt it's thorn's stick and scratch themselves into my leg as I tried to get it off.

But soon, more vines shot at me and wrapped themselves aroundlimbs, one even got around my neck. Once they got a good grip on me, they suddenly pulled away and tried to pull me apart. I grunted as I felt their thorns grow and jab into my body.

As I felt them stretch me out, the crystal on my Elemental armour glowed and I used the green energy to form a weed-whacker saw on the end of my hoof. It started up with a loud buzzing noise and I managed to get my arm free by cutting the vine off it. With that arm free, I started waving my hoof around and sliced every vine it came in contact with.

Eventually, all the vines had been slashed and crawled back down into the ground.

But once that happened, a powerful blast of magic shot me and sent a powerful shock through my body, I yelled in pain before I started falling. I thought for sure I was gonna hit the solid ground, but before I did, I was grabbed by magic. I looked at saw it was Blaze who caught me, but the smirk on his face made me nervous.

Suddenly, I was slammed to the ground before I was picked up and slammed down again, this went on for a few more times before I was thrown up high into the air. When I came back down, Blaze shot me with another powerful blast and I was shot into one of the nearby cottages.

I crashed through the wall and feel to the floor of the living room of the cottage, the ponies that owned it gasped in fright as they saw me. While still lying on the floor, I turned to face them. "Hi, don't mind me." I said, making it sound like nothing was wrong.

At that moment, Blaze leaped through the gaping hole in the cottage and pinned his hooves down on my throat. I grunted as I tried to get him off, but he was too strong and heavy. I reached my hoof around and tried to grab something I could use to get him off, I eventually got a piece of wood from the debris of my entry and smacked Blaze in the head with it, making him stumble off of me.

I then got back up and threw a punch at Blaze's face, Blaze then threw one back at me and it struck me across the face. Blaze tried it again, but this time I caught his hoof and threw my other hoof up under his arm, making it bend upwards a little. While he was distracted by the pain in his arm, I grabbed him by his arms and my hooves glowed green.

With the strength put into my hooves, I started to quickly rotate around in circles with Blaze in my grasp, spinning him around with me. At the right moment, I released Blaze and he went crash out through one of the windows. I looked at the ponies and waved my hoof. "Sorry about that." I said before I leaped out the window after Blaze.

Once outside, I saw Blaze getting back up from my attack, he must've got cut from the glass because he had a bleeding scratch on his cheek. "You've improved a lot since your battle with Thorn." He said with a dark tone.

I nodded. "Yeah, I've been training a lot." I said before I changed the subject. "But why, Blaze? Why did you betray us?" I asked as we started to circle each other like challenging lions.

"I never betrayed you, I was never on your side to begin with." Blaze said before he told me his story. "Years ago, when I was just a new born, my family abandoned me. But Zelga found me and saw potential in me, she and Thorn raised me into a strong Unicorn and solider. For years, we searched for the Elements of Harmony, I was given the assignment to infiltrate Canterlot and search for them from within. Once I was accepted as a guard, I met Shining Armor and Midnight Gaze, who both eventually earned the status of Captain a few years later. I searched for a long time but could never find the Elements, until your wife and her friends uncovered them and returned Luna to her true self. After that, I stayed on everyone's good side until I could snatch them. But little did I know that a nuisance like you would appear and make things more difficult. That I could get over, but then you killed Thorn, my own uncle who was like a father to me…I'll never forget that." Blaze said with a growl in his voice.

I gave him an honest look. "Thorn was mad, we was trying to kill everyone, including me. He would've destroyed Equestria if I hadn't have stopped him." I said, trying to reason with him.

"Equestria is already destroyed! For the last few years, I've heard nothing more other than stuff about Friendship and Love and how it all makes us stronger! It's all a bunch of utter garbage!" Blaze yelled in anger. "Equestria has been made weak, and it's all because of Celestia. For Equestria to be properly saved, Celestia and her rule must fall!" he said strongly.

I then gave him a sharp glare. "Over my dead body." I said with the crystal on my Elemental armour glowing.

"That's the idea!" Blaze said before his horn glowed and he shot another powerful blast of magic at me.

At that moment, I summoned my horned helmet and I shot a powerful blast of green magic at his beam. The two beams then struck each other and they both caused a powerful explosion in the process. Blaze tried to see me through the dust, but he couldn't see a thing.

Suddenly, a green beam shot through the dust and struck his hooves, freezing them in strong ice instantly. Blaze tried to pull his hooves free, but he couldn't even budge them. I then shot through the dust and punched him right in the body, I struck him so hard that it broke the ice on his hooves and it sent him flying into the air. But that wasn't enough to stop him.

Blaze's horn glowed brightly again before a pair of see-through bat wings appeared on his back, allowing him to fly in the air with me. "So, you want to take this into the sky, do ya? Fine by me!" Blaze yelled before he shot down towards me.

I gasped loudly before I shot up high to avoid his attack, Blaze flew after me and we were soon in a flying chase through Ponyville. I looked back at him and saw him shooting powerful beams at me. As they missed, they shot into some of the cottages and blew chunks out of them.

I quickly turned my body around so I was now flying on my back, my crystal horn glowed and I shot beams back at him. Blaze tilted left and right to avoid my attacks. Seeing how it wasn't gonna do much good, I rolled my body back the right way and returned my attention to where I was going, but was shocked to see I was flying right towards a cottage.

I quickly pulled up and flew upwards towards the sky, Blaze pulled up also and followed me.

While still flying upwards towards the sky, I looked back and saw Blaze still chasing me. I returned my attention to where I was going before I tried to think of something to do. That's when I realized if I couldn't shake him, I'd face him. I flew up a little higher before I stopped and dove down towards Blaze.

Blaze was surprised, but he wasn't frightened, in fact this was what he wanted. He flew upwards faster to get me where he wanted me.

We both flew rapidly towards each other before I smirked, I then wrapped myself in a ball and I used my Elemental power to seal myself in a force-field orb, spikes grew all over it as I fell faster towards Blaze.

Seeing this, Blaze was shocked and tried to think of a way to avoid it, but he wasn't quick enough and I struck into him, we both fell down back into Ponyville and we crashed into the ground. Being protected by the force-field, I was unharmed, more than I can say for Blaze.

After a moment, I opened my eyes to see I was in a small crater created by our impact, but I couldn't see Blaze anywhere. I looked around more, but I couldn't see him. Suddenly, a large black chain came down and attached itself around my neck. Next thing I knew, I was being hoisted out of the crater.

I was tossed up high into the air before the chain pulled down hard and I was slammed into the ground. I picked myself up and saw Blaze, he was covered in dirt and growling like an angered animal, the long black chain was held in his magic. He then pulled his head back and that made the chain pull up again.

I was then picked up again before I was slammed into the ground, this continued for a few more times before I created a green energy buzz-saw in my hoof, I pushed it up against the chain and it soon cut it off, allowing me to fly up into the air freely. With the chain broken, any part of the chain left around my neck disintegrated into nothing.

I looked down at Blaze before I grunted, deciding to play fire with fire. I created two green sword blades and held them with the magic from my horned helmet, I shot down towards Blaze with them ready to strike him.

But Blaze, using the power of the Amulet, created two black sword blades and we got caught in a sword lock. We both glared into each other's eyes. "You're not gonna win." I growled.

"Let's agree to disagree." Blaze said before his horn glowed and a small zap of electricity shot out and hit my face.

I yelped in pain and stepped backwards, I rubbed my arm against my face to rub away the uncomfortable feeling it gave me. When I opened my eyes, I was shocked to see Blaze charging towards me with his sword swaying.

I then threw my swords up and blocked his from striking me and we soon got into a sword fight, I was forced to walk backwards as Blaze's swords bashed against mine. Every time Blaze swung one of his swords, I moved mine in the way and blocked it. At some points, I managed to get a chance to swing my swords at him, but Blaze blocked my attacks just as I kept blocking his.

I was soon forced back against a wall of another cottage, this made it a little more difficult to block Blaze's attacks. As I struggled to block Blaze's swords, he eventually shot one towards me in an attempt to impale me. I quickly dodged it and it stabbed into the wall behind me. This allowed me one opportunity to attack.

I flew upwards a little and threw one of my hind-legs up and kicked him right under the chin, making him stumble backwards a little. This made him lose focus on the one sword and it disappeared. I then threw both my swords at his remaining sword and it destroyed it, both my swords being too strong to withstand.

Once Blaze recovered from my kick, he opened his eyes to see both my swords pointing right at his face. "Don't try anything!" I ordered.

Blaze then looked at me and smirked before his horn glowed again. Suddenly, his body became see-through and he started sinking into the Earth until he was completely gone. "That's the exact opposite of not trying anything!" I said loudly at the ground.

Knowing something was gonna happened, I stood still and watched everywhere, both my swords held up ready to battle. Everything was quiet, it didn't feel right at all.

Suddenly, Blaze shot up from under my body and struck me right in the chest. After returning to the surface and sending me flying, his body returned to normal and he landed perfectly on the ground.

I hit the ground hard, holding my chest due to the strong hit in just received. I weakly looked over to Blaze and saw him walking towards me, his front-hoof raised up and he struck me right in the face, making me fall back down.

I opened my eyes slowly and tasted blood in my mouth. Suddenly, I felt myself being picked up by Blaze's strong magic and forced to face him. I saw his eyes flash red before I noticed the Amulet around his neck glowing. "You were never this powerful before…what happened to you?" I asked, wondering where he learned these new powers.

"You can thank this for that." Blaze said as he tapped the Amulet with his hoof. "With this Amulet, I've become the most powerful Unicorn ever! And I'm gonna use its power to avenge Thorn, I'm gonna use its power…to KILL YOU!" He yelled before a powerful beam shot out of his horn and easily struck me like a sitting duck.

I flew across the area and soon crash landed in the ground, covering me in dirt and bruises. I weakly picked myself up before I tried to stand up, one of my front-legs hurt, but I managed to walk it off in time before Blaze appeared in a flash of light a few feet away from me.

I glared at him before I started walking towards him, then walking turned to rushing, then rushing turned to galloping, then galloping turned to speeding as I used my wings to take off into the air to fly towards him with great speed.

Blaze galloped towards me before he leaped up, I rammed into Blaze and I was now flying through the air for the both of us. Blaze and I threw countess punches at each other as I flew uncontrollably through Ponyville. I crashed through a few store signs and into some market stands, but I managed to keep flying.

I started to fly upwards into the sky as Blaze and I continued to beat each other senseless. I soon grew tired of this and grabbed Blaze with my hooves, I then threw him downwards before I shot him with a powerful beam from the controller-shaped crystal in the centre of my Elemental Armour, sending him shooting back down towards the town.

Blaze used his magic to conceal himself in a forcefield just before he hit the ground near Sweet Apple Acres.

Seeing this, I quickly flew down towards where he landed, but was shocked to see a powerful beam of magic shoot up at me. I quickly dodged it before I saw Blaze down below, still standing and still ready for more, he kept shooting more beams at me to try and hit me.

I kept dodging them in more ways than one, I increased my speed so I would reach him quicker, avoiding every beam he shot at me.

As I got closer, Blaze stopped shooting. Instead, he grinned deviously before his horn glowed again and another Earth Worm sprung out of the ground in front of him.

Once I saw that, I quickly tried to stop myself, but I had been moving too fast to simply stop right away. With its mouth wide open, I flew right into it and it swallowed me. From inside the worm, I could only see darkness and I felt something gooey around me, I used my Elemental magic to illuminate my surroundings. I looked around where I was and saw the worms flesh and innards.

"Oh hell no!" I said to myself before I used my Elemental magic again to create a small forcefield around myself, I then quickly made it expand, growing wider rapidly.

From outside, Blaze, saw the Worm growing wider before it eventually exploded, sending goo and entrails everywhere. I then dropped down onto the brown slime covered ground and felt disgusted by it. "Aww…that's just…wrong!" I said as I shook it off my arms. "That's the most disgusting this I've ever smelt! I'm never gonna get this scent out, now Twilight and the others are gonna be complaining and Rainbow Dash will never let me live it down….Who summons a giant worm to eat someone anyway? Honestly?" I said as I stood up, being careful not to slip on the slime.

Blaze rolled his eyes before he pointed his horn at me and it glowed, a swarm of glowing green hornets then shot out of the tip and flew quickly towards me.

I yelped in fright before I turned around and flew away from the swarm, but they chased after me. I didn't know what kind of hornets they were, but I wasn't willing to find out what their stings do. I flew as fast as I could away from the swarm, I spun around and shot a beam of magic from my crystal horn, but the swarm departed and avoided it. While still flying through Sweet Apple Acres, I kept trying to shoot them with more beams and even an energy disc, but it never worked.

I kept flying through the farm, trying to think of a way to get rid of the swarm. That's when I saw a small tool shed not far away, I then got an idea that would work, but Applejack wouldn't like it very much. I turned and flew towards it as fast as I could, once there, I opened the door and got inside. I turned around to face the swarm as it got closer towards me.

I could see all the hornets within the swarm point their stingers forward, ready to stab them into my flesh. But once they were close enough, my crystal horn glowed and I teleported away, making all the hornets fly into an empty tool shed.

When they were all inside, I reappeared outside the shed and slammed the door shut and trapped the hornets inside. I could hear them buzzing in anger as they tried to break themselves out. I then stood in front of the shed and shot a powerful beam of fire from my crystal horn, instantly setting the shed on-fire. The hornets screeched as they all burned in the fire.

I exhaled in relief, knowing they wouldn't be bothering me again. I was astonished by how powerful Blaze was with that Amulet, I had to find a way to get it off him. I turned around and used every bit of my strength to blast off into the air, I flew back towards Blaze to face him straight on.

I then saw him up ahead and he soon noticed me, Blaze used his magic to make several throwing-knives appear before he threw them all towards me. My hooves glowed green before I started knocking each one away as they got close to me. I then gave my wings one hard flap before I shot towards Blaze, ramming into him like a speeding bull.

We both then flew through the air and crashed through the main doors of the barn, the door slowed us down and we both crashed into the ground. We weakly got back up before we glared at each other, we growled angrily before we charged towards each other and started throwing punches like crazy.

Sometimes I'd get Blaze in the face, sometimes he'd get me in the chest, but we never slowed down. "Why won't you just die?! Why do you keep fighting? Twilight said you were trying to avoid fighting! That you were scared of getting out of control like you did with Jersey!" Blaze said before he threw his hoof towards me to preform another punch.

I quickly caught it with my hoof before I slowly twisted it. "What I did to Jersey…it was because I wanted to…because what you did to Applebloom made me lose control. But this time is different…I'm not fighting you because I want to, I'm fighting you because I have to…because when ponies like you or anything else threaten Ponyville and my friends, there'll always be one thing to stand in your way….and that's me!" I said before I threw my body up and struck Blaze across the face with one of my hind-hooves.

Blaze stumbled backwards and tried to recover from my attack, but I quickly got him by punching him across his face, making him stumble more. Blaze quickly recovered and charged at me in an attempt to head-butt me, but I grabbed him by his head. I started spinning him around before I threw him up against the ladder that lead to the second floor of the barn.

Blaze crash through the ladder and hit the hard wall behind him.

I walked over to him, ready to counter anything he'd try to do. "The Amulet…take it off now!" I ordered with my crystal horn glowing brightly.

Blaze weakly looked up to me before he smirked. "No…way." he said before his horn glowed.

But before he could do anything, I quickly used my magic to make an object appear and I slammed it down onto his head. Once it touched his horn, Blaze felt a sharp pain in his head, like his magic was being blocked by some mystical force. Blaze looked up at his horn and saw what I put onto it.

It was a ring-like object, made from gold stone and jewels around the side, the gear-works within it grinded and made it tighten around Blaze's horn. "A Horn-Block? Where did you get one of those? I thought Princess Celestia disposed of all of them." he said.

"During my last visit to Moleyair's place, he gave me that, told me I'd need it for what was coming. Now I know what he was talking about." I said before I spun around and bucked him hard in the chest, making him grunt in pain and hold his chest.

While he was trying to recover, I walked over to a pitchfork stuck in the hay and picked it up with one hoof. I then walked back over to Blaze and stood up on my hind-legs, I held the pitchfork in both hooves and held the sharp end at Blaze's neck.

Blaze saw this and stayed perfectly still, breathing gently before he looked up into my eyes. "Do it, Matthew, kill me…just as you killed Thorn. It's in your blood now, you can't fight it and neither can I. If you don't, I promise I'll be back and make you pay, there's not a force in the world that will stop me from getting my revenge." He said with a vicious growl.

Tightening my grip around the handle of the pitchfork, I tried to think long and hard about what I was gonna do. If Blaze lives, he could endanger my family. If I kill him, I'm not better than him or Zelga. After a moment, I made my decision, I gripped the handle hard before I pulled back and then thrust towards Blaze.

Blaze closed his eyes tight, waiting for the final blow, but it never came. He slowly opened his eyes to see that the pitchfork didn't stab into him, it actually stabbed through the wall behind him with his neck trapped between the tines, pinning him against the wall unharmed.

I then went up to him and grabbed him by his horn before I slammed his head back against the wall. "If you do come back, I'll be there to kick your ass again." I said in a whisper before I punched him in the face while still holding his horn. "By the way, that was for what you did to Applebloom." I said before I released his horn.

I then turned and walked away towards the exit. "I'll tell the guards where you are…after I deal with your mother. In the meantime, don't go anywhere." I said, mocking him in his situation.

Blaze growled angrily before he grabbed the fork with his hooves and tried to pull it off, but it was too strongly wedged, he couldn't get out. "You coward! Come back here! Come back her and finish this!" he yelled, trying to get me to change my mind about letting him live.

But I didn't listen. Once I got outside, I spread my wings and flew off into the air to get back to town, where my next battled awaited. I just hoped Twilight and the others were safe.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Nothing much to say today, no Pony News other than expect the CMC to try and get a Griffon a Cutie Mark today and the return of the Flim Flam brothers next week.

I'm still having trouble getting over some stuff I did, I don't feel like the same person I used to. I want to find the person I hurt and apologise to them, but everyone says that's probably not a possibility anymore and they might be right. Everything just feels so different. Does anyone have any helpful advice?

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