Chapter 17: Flarestorm Curse

The red thunder came crashing down, I had to look at it, I didn't want to but somehow I wound up looking at it. Dark Thunder laughed hard, he enjoyed it too much. Meanwhile down on the ground Green Spectre and Space Rift saw the thunder coming down. ''Crap, Sis!'' Green Spectre looked distressed. Bluestar looked up and saw what they were afraid off. ''Oh no…'' Space Rift nodded to Green Spectre and her horn began to glow, teleporting herself and her brother next to their father. ''Icestorm!'' Bluestar flew towards Icestorm holding out his hoof. Icestorm grabbed it and they both flew away from the center of the blast. ''Enemy swap?'' Icestorm asked. Bluestar nodded and grabbed his Sansetsukon. ''Leverage effect.'' He just said and Icestorm grabbed the other end. Her horn began to glow and ice began to grow on her horn making it a spear. ''Go!'' Bluestar swung the Sansetsukon around towards the air. Icestorm, gaining momentum every second, let go and flew upwards with impossible speed with Bluestar in pursuit, ignoring the explosions behind him.

There were explosions everywhere in Canterlot. Dark Thunder laughed harder with every scream that was heard. The other two enemy's appeared next to him. ''Nice work father.'' Space Rift said. I still looked down towards the explosions. I saw ponies running around everywhere. I was still locked in the red lightning but I didn't felt it anymore. My mind became blank, my vision blurry. Tears ran down my cheek as I thought of all those ponies down there.

''Equestria is finally yours fataaahhhhh!'' Space Rift couldn't end her sentence. Spectre looked around and saw that a spear of ice hit her in the stomach. Icestorm stayed around the same height using her magic while Bluestar stopped beside her looking at Spectre. ''How dare you do this to my sister you bastards!'' For some reason Green Spectre had the ability to stand on the thunderclouds and he ran towards Bluestar trying to hit him in his face when a strange laugh made him stop. He looked around to his Dark Thunder. Bluestar, Icestorm and Space Rift also stopped in their actions. The laugh was so creepy, so strange that it had the ability to stop everything that happened dead in its track. Dark Thunder looked around, he wasn't it. He then looked towards me, his face neutral. ''What are you laughing about Flarestorm?'' He asked and I looked up, smiling like a madman. ''Congratulations Darkie, you are one of few that will see our curse. The Flarestorm curse.'' My smile disappeared and my face looked filled with rage. ''When we reach some level of fury… nobody is safe.'' With those words my chains suddenly released, Dark Thunder flew backwards in shock. ''What is the meaning of this? I didn't unlock them.''

I just hovered in front of them not saying a thing, I felled my heart going crazy like hell. ''Blade? Are you ok buddy?'' Bluestar looked concerned but didn't have time for that. Dark Thunder engulfed himself in red lightning and began to charge. Right before he hit me my flames activated. They were even brighter and stronger than before. It deflected the charge of Dark Thunder in an instant and he flew way back. ''Father… You bastard!'' Green Spectre now charged. I looked at him but only saw a figure. I took my hoof and gave the figure a big hit in his face. Green Spectre fell down to the ground, he looked at me with fear. I set my tail on fire and it extended. My tail grabbed Green Spectre without the rest of my body even moving an inch. When I had Spectre he began to squirm around. ''It burns! It burns!'' I didn't hear him but I understood he was in pain. '' Spectre! Get away from my son you bastard!'' Dark charged me again but I was prepared. I threw his son at him and they collided mid-air. ''sucker.'' I looked behind me to where the voice came from. It was Rift with a powerful spell that hit me point blank range. I fell down in flames and landed right in the center of Canterlot which caused a massive explosion. With the hit I regained a part of the control over my body. My vision was less blurry and I saw that Canterlot was less destroyed then it should be. It gave me relief but there were still bodies of ponies everywhere. I looked up from where I came and saw Dark, probably regained his flight, charging at me with some kind of electric charge. He was already too close to evade or counter but right before he hit me he got bucked. I saw that an orange pony had hit him full on, Applejack. ''Don't ya dare to touch him!'' She yelled to Dark, which now stood up. Rift and Spectre both came down, they landed beside their father and they just stared at me. Bluestar and Icestorm landed besides Applejack. ''Quick come here. Blade is not himself.'' They tried to take her away but she stood firm. ''What do ya'll mean?'' She asked but Applejack already saw it. From her point of view I had changed. My flames had become darker, my coat lighter and my eyes were burning green. It was one of the strangest combinations she had ever seen. When I looked at her I got some more control back, I was just so happy to see her alive. ''Apple…jack…''

''You insolent wench!'' Dark suddenly yelled. We all looked at him and I saw way too clear what happened. He was holding a thunderbolt in his hoof and threw it to Applejack. For the second time within a day I had to see how he attacked my friends, and even let me think they died. But now it happened in front of my face, now I really saw what happened and I wasn't stuck in one place. My rage was gone and fear struck in my heart. With my willpower I got full control of my body back and jumped before them taking the hit in my chest. When I hit the ground everything began to fade, but it felt different from before. I was more at peace. I heard Dark laugh hard and yell something along the way of I did it. I also heard some voices calling my name, but it was too faint to recognize.

Inside
I opened my eyes and saw my grandfather, Flare. The shadow figure was gone so that meant it was really him. ''Grandpa!'' I went straight for him but got a hard fist in my face. ''Idiot!'' He said and I fell on the ground. ''You almost had full control but now the curse has been activated.'' I looked at him. ''Wait, the curse was that we lose control of our fury right?'' Flare nodded. ''Yes but it only applies when a Flarestorm gets knocked out. Then the fury of a Flarestorm takes over and he will rampage on everything in sight.'' I now stood up and looked him in the eyes. ''So you say that I was in control? But he just had more control then me.'' Flare nodded. ''Your body is probably rampaging right now as we speak. But there is a good side to this. The Flarestorm's blessing.'' I laughed. ''Come on grandpa, how can a family like ours have this kind of curse and blessing anyway?'' My grandfather hit me again. ''Don't interrupt my talk. Like I said there is also a blessing in this curse. Learn to control it and you have more power than ever.'' I waited a bit before answering. ''So it's just controlling your emotions.'' Flare nodded. ''Then why didn't you say that in the first place! I was scared for life when this happened to me, I didn't even care to try.'' Suddenly a door appeared behind me. I turned around and opened the door. ''What are you going to do?'' Flare asked. ''Talking myself out of this mess.'' And I closed the door and the door disappeared. ''Good luck… I know it's hard and I'm sorry.'' Flare turned back to the scenery and thought about his own time in Equestria. ''I'm so sorry that I made it. I'm sorry.'' Flare had tears rolling down his cheek. He remembered the time that the Flarestorm curse was made. When it was engraved into his DNA when he was hit by the magic of Dark Thunder's Sister.

The room where I was in lighted up. I saw a reflection of me on the other end but there was one big difference. His body was white and the clothes black with white letters saying Wrath, he was emotionless while I looked angry. ''I hate you… I hate you so much.'' I raised a fist while the other one did nothing… no I definitely saw a smile on his face. ''I hate you so much… But you're a part of me.'' I lowered my fist and came closer. ''Please help me.'' My reflection now laughed, without voice. I did the same, we were the same after all. When we looked each other's in the eyes I saw something great. Understanding. I held out my hand and waited. When I felt a hit and then a shake I smiled. We were one from this moment. As if at comment he disappeared. I was in total control right now.

Outside
My body just laid on the ground, Dark was laughing like a maniac and Applejack was trying to perform CPR. Suddenly my eyes opened and I stood up. ''Blade you're…'' Applejack stopped when she saw what happened. My coat became white and my mane was black. Dark Thunder now looked with true fear. ''No, no, no. That's the true fury. I was skeptic before but… shit.'' I made two big black fireball in my hoof and threw one at them. Rift Teleported them out away and the blast missed. Even so a large crater was formed in the place. The other one I tried to throw towards the others that were standing next to me. Bluestar jumped back when he got a hold of Icestorm, he tried to grab Applejack too but he missed her. ''Blade… This isn't you, Blade!'' She was scared, the one she loved was moments away from obliterating her and she couldn't do anything to stop him. I lowered my arm towards Applejack to blast her away from this world when I suddenly stopped and closed my eyes.

Inside and outside in sync again.
When I opened them again I was myself. I looked at what I was doing and shocked myself. ''Oh shit. Away with this thing!'' I tried to make it smaller in my hooves when I remembered a move like that. ''No, don't start thinking about that now blade, focus.'' I said to myself. When the flames disappeared Applejack looked at me again. My normal colors came back and the friendly smile she had always seen had also returned. This was the old Blade again. But she was still scared, the other Blade attacked her and almost killed her. Suddenly there was a voice booming through the air. It was the voice of Dark Thunder. ''Citizens of Canterlot. Today you have experienced part of our power versus the power of your heroes. As the honest pony I am I must say they were quite remarkable. But next time… We won't stop for strategy meetings.'' The voice disappeared. Bluestar appeared next to me. ''Dude, did he just ran away?'' I nodded, I think so…ouch. Why is everypony hitting me while I'm talking or… just hitting me.'' I looked irritated towards them. ''Why the hell did you rampage on us Blade?'' Icestorm almost yelled my eardrums out. ''Let him tell us later, now I'm more surprised with the city. It's still standing, I thought at least half would be destroyed.'' Bluestar saved me with that and we all looked around. The town was pretty much ok, as if just one or two thunderbolts had hit.

''That would be our doing.'' In a flash both the princesses stood before us. ''What?'' I said in disbelief while the princesses came closer. ''We saw from where we were standing that the shield around the city was shattered. We knew what was coming so came as fast as possible.'' I still looked at them saying ''What?'' again. ''We saw the thunder coming and combined our magic to make a shield to protect the city. But his magic was too strong and a part broke through. We are very thankful for your help.'' Princess Celestia smiled at me but Princess Luna looked a bit angry. ''But please refrain of helping the enemy destroy the city next time.'' Luna pointed to where I threw the first rage ball, as I called it, and now was a big crater. ''oops?'' I smiled but got another hit from Icestorm. ''Sometimes I just hate my life…'' I laughed, just to relief some stress, Bluestar joined me and Icestorm also smiled. We were still alive, nothing can beat that. Or can it?

''Bluestar!'' Bluestar turned around to see a happy Twilight coming at him and she jumped on him grabbing onto his neck. ''I'm so happy to see you.'' She kissed his cheek and gave him a big hug. Bluestar blushed and saw the rest of the mane six galloping towards them with two others. The others were Big Mac and Solar. ''But it seems that they left Princess, so what now?'' The Princess waited until everyone was together and spoke up. ''We will work on a plan of attack. We must bring the battle to them so I want all of you at the castle tomorrow morning. But now, please take a rest and recover. I also see that you have another pony to take care of.'' The Princesses turned around and I saw Princess Celestia wink at Solar, then they teleported away to the castle. ''Well… let's go home. '' Rainbow Dash said. ''I've had enough excitement for one day.'' We nodded and went to the home they had in Canterlot. When we had walked for a while I had a feeling that something was wrong. I looked behind me and saw Icestorm and Big Mac behind us, way behind us. I jumped around the corner to hide, I slowly went towards them until I heard them.

''…Do you really mean it?'' Icestorm asked. ''Eeyup.'' Yeah clearly Big Mac now. What were they talking about? ''Well, you really showed your bravery when you defended me. You're indeed not as wimpy as I first thought, but when did you think about me like that?'' I was shocked, those two? Well that was definitely the clue for me to get out of there. I silently flew away but the talk continued.
''The moment I first saw you, you appeared beautifully.'' Big Mac blushed, even though it isn't as easily seen on him. ''Well thank you but… I'm human, I'll probably disappear one time and never return.''
''But you did return didn't ya? So I knew I had to say it.'' Now it was Icestorm's turn to blush. ''You really mean it don't you? I-I have no idea what to say, this is, I think, the first time anyone had the nerve to say that to me.'' Big Mac gathered some nerve and breath and unleashed it softly next to Icestorm. ''I love you.''

Later in the house I sat down next to Applejack in our room. ''Well, we haven't done this in a long time.'' Applejack came closer to me. ''No…'' I looked at her. ''Hey what is the matter? Did I do something wrong?'' Applejack looked at me with tears in her eyes. ''I was so scared that you wouldn't come back. And when you came back, you turned into somepony that I didn't know. I just don't want to lose you like that again.'' I saw tears flowing down her cheeks, she was crying and it was my fault. I just hugged her. She was still shaking. ''I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.'' We just sat like that for some minutes. It was comforting. When we broke the hug we looked each other's eyes. We then shared a kiss, that lasted forever.

The next morning
We all walked to the castle, The mane six, Big Mac, Solar and the three of us in front. Bluestar suddenly tapped my shoulder and lead me to the side. ''Dude, I got something amazing. I got something with Twilight.'' I just looked bored at him. ''That's it, it just took you what? A month? Without being KO?'' I smiled and Bluestar looked irritated. ''Can't you be happier for me?'' I nodded and gave him a pat on the shoulder. ''You did well buddy.'' Suddenly Solar stood beside us. ''Uhm, you guys better watch the road next time, you passed the castle 5 minutes ago.'' We looked back and we indeed missed the castle. ''Crap! Well, haven't stretched my wings yet.'' With that I took a deep breath and launched up, did some tricks and went towards the entrance. It was strange, the enemy could attack any moment but I was at peace. It would be great if this feeling would last forever. Especially without the curse.

A/N: Hoped you enjoyed it. R&R and have a nice day!
Blade