When I open my eyes all I see is darkness. I try to open my eyes as wide as possible, but there's absolutely no light. I light my hands and take a look around. Gems. Lots and lots of gems. Gems larger than me fill the room, making the walls, the ceiling, almost everything. I look around to try to see where I came from, but the cavern I'm in is completely sealed off. I check my supplies to find that I still have everything. Weird, but I'll take it.

"Miles..." someone says weakly in the distance. I look around frantically, trying to find who ever called me but can't pinpoint where they are.

"Muahahahaha," Cadence laughs as she appears inside every gem in the cavern, "Oh, Miles, Miles, wherefore art thou Miles?" she mocks.

"What’s going on, where are we!?" I demand.

"Shouldn't you be more concerned with where Luna is?"

"Luna... where is she!? What have you done to her!?"

"Mehehehe, that's more like it," she says with an evil grin as her face fades away from the gems.

"YOU FUCKER!" I yell as I send out a small ball of energy at a gem, destroying it instantly. I send out another, and another, and another, destroying gem after gem until a wall collapses and I see Luna laying on the ground in another cavern. She looks pretty beat up, with a couple of cuts and bruises on her. I run to her and slide to her side. "Luna... Luna wake up. Come on Luna..." I say as I try to shake her awake, but it's no use. I lay my hands on her side and start to heal her wounds. If she doesn't pull through... scient verum mortem.

---

I fly down to a bush near the entrance, and wait for the guards to walk out of view before I run in. The cave inside is fairly dark, but the glowing grenades Miles had are lighting an area a few feet around me, so I'll be able to at least walk without falling. I make my way down until I come to a fork in the cave. Well... I guess any way will work. I go down the right path and try to keep low, even though the glow from the grenades is a pretty big giveaway. The tunnel begins to wind up and down and fill with gems. After a while I start to feel disorientated from all of the turning. I come to a complete halt, as the path ends with a large cliff that drops into a pit of jagged gems. I look around for any clue as to Miles's whereabouts when something pushes me from behind. I fall a few feet but quickly recover and fly up to see my aggressor.

"T-twilight? What are you doing?" Standing on the clearing is Twilight, looking at me with a sly grin.

"Sorry Storm, it's over," she says as she turns and walks out. I fly up and land in front of her, drawing my sword and pointing it to her.

"You're not Twilight," I say as I tighten my grip on the handle and take a readied stance, "show yourself!" The false Twilight laughs as it morphs into a changeling. With a bloodcurdling scream it charges for me on hoof. I take a step forward and bring my blade down onto its back, making blue sludge pour out as it falls to the ground. That was too easy. Something isn't right here. Why have the changelings returned? I need to find Miles and get to the Princesses as quickly as possible.

---

I finished healing Luna up and now hold her in my lap, gently rocking her back and forth. She's got a solid heartbeat, but isn't waking up. I bring my hand to her cheek and gently rub the side of her head as her eyes slowly open up.

"Luna!"

"Hey Miles..." she says weakly.

"Told you we'd see each other soon enough."

"Y-yeah... you did. Where are we?"

"I don't know. Some kind of cavern near Canterlot... I think. Luna, what happened? How did you get here?"

"I was ponynapped in the morning by... by..."

"Cadence and Shining?" She nods as I silently curse them. They will pay for what they have done. "Alright, first things first, let's get you out of here. I dig us a way out and then..."

"Miles," she says, stopping me, "please... just for a minute, could you just hold me?" I smile down to her and pull her in to hold onto her more tightly.

"Any time."

---

I fly around the open area and find a clearing at the bottom of the cliff of gems, just next to a massive solid gem. I walk down this clearing for a while, taking a few turns here and there, until I see a pink glow in the distance. I start to trot to it but keep my eyes open for anything. Up ahead I see Princess Cadence leaning over Prince Shining Armor, letting her tears fall onto his unconscious body. The princess looks as if she's been roughed up a bit, but what concerns me it the huge gash on Shining's head, just above his horn. I run up but stop a few feet from them, getting Princess Cadence's attention.

"NO, NONONO! Please, just leave us alone, please. Haven't you done enough, just let us be, please," she sobs to me as she holds tightly onto the unconscious prince.

"Princess Cadence, my name’s Storm Cloud, I was a guard but I was recently fired, but anyway, I..."

"NO! You're one of those changelings, I know it. Just leave us be!"

"Princess, please. How can I show you that I'm not a changeling, I'll do anything?" She sobs into Shining's chest a bit before she looks up to me.

"You said your name was Storm Cloud."

"Yes, I-"

"The same Storm Cloud who would make my Twilight cry night after night, that Storm Cloud?" Buck me over.

"No, that is a different pony who has tried to steal my identity. I am the true Storm Cloud."

"That doesn't really help you."

"I know, it’s really complicated and I don't even completely understand it, but that's not important. The prince looks really hurt, we need to heal him right away."

"I tried, but the changelings gave me some kind of drug that has weakened my magic, I can barely maintain this light."

"I've got some healing potions, if you'll allow me to administer them." I say as I pull out a blue potion. She looks skeptical but stands and allows me to give him the potion. The potion begins to take effect as Shining starts to whine and twist from the potion healing him. I can see the wound start to close up right before my eyes.

"Okay, your turn," I say as I turn to the princess.

"No, I'm fine, really. Keep it in case we need it to heal him again."

"I really must insist, I do have two more, that's more than enough. Plus, we'll have a medic once we find my friend."

"How good is he?"

"One of the best." She looks around but finally nods. I give her the potion and tell her to lay down. She does and drinks the potion, making her close her eyes tightly as it takes effect. "I'm going to keep watch, if you need me I'll be just outside." She nods through the pain so I head to the entrance and wait for the potion to end.

---

"Luna... let’s get going," I say softly into her ear. She looks up to me and nods gently. I help her to her hooves and am about to start sending us to the surface when she puts a hoof on my side.

"Miles, I don't think that would be wise."

"Why's that?"

"Well... we don't want to advertise to them that we're escaping. I think we should try to hoof it out of this cave before we make our presence known."

"Well... if you say so, I'll take lead, stay close," I say as I pull out my rifle and begin to look around the cavern. Luna lights her horn to light the way so I shut off my magic. I find a path in Luna's room, so I start to head down it, keeping low and to the sides. We come to a turn in the path, where we find a guard walking down the path towards us. Luna shuts off her magic as we drop to the ground next to the wall. I crawl up to a small boulder for cover and take a look at it. It's all black, with chunks of its legs missing, papery wings, a horn, and bright blue eyes. I look to Luna for answers as to what it is.

"It's a changeling. Creatures that feed off the love of other creatures. They can take the form of any creature that they know of."

"Are they friendly?"

"Certainly not." I sling my rifle, pull out my trench knife and wait beside the boulder. The changeling is making a blue glow come from its horn, guiding it down the jagged path. When it walks beside me, I lunge my blade right where the jaw and the neck meet as I pull it towards me with my other arm. I stab into it over and over again as I let it scream into my side, getting bright blue blood to spill onto me. When I feel it stop fighting me I let it drop to the ground. I look over to Luna and motion for her to follow. I might’ve scared her a bit from that, but I'll deal with that once I know she's safe.

---

When I hear Cadence and Shining shuffling around in the back, I decide to walk back inside. I find them holding on to each other, kissing passionately.

"Ahem," I say, ending their kiss and getting their attention. "I know you’re happy to see each other, but we aren't out of the woods yet." Shining gets up and walks over to me. He walks around and takes a good look over me. I just stand there and wait for him to finish.

"How do we know you are who you say you are?" He asks.

"Besides the fact that I gave you both a healing potion, you don't. I don't know if you’re who you are either, so we'll have to find a way to trust one another before we can move on."

"Very well... who are you?"

"Storm Cloud, former royal guard for Luna's night corps."

"Storm Cloud... the same Storm Cloud who broke my sister’s heart and..."

"Bucking hell that wasn't me! Somepony is trying to steal my identity and slander my name! I would never do that!"

"Hmm... what’s the night corps’ motto?"

"‘The shadows of the night’."

“Okay, and what’s the real night corps’ motto? The one they don’t tell everypony?”

“Knights of the New Moon.” He nods to me, visibly relaxing a bit.

"He's definitely former night guard. We'll have to talk later about this impostor though." I nod and look back to Shining.

"Okay, I'll trust you, for now," Shining says.

"Alright, well let’s try to find my friend, and get out of here before more changelings appear," I say as I walk to the tunnel in the back of the room.

"Shouldn't we leave while we can?" Cadence says as they follow me closely.

"I'm not leaving without my friend... plus..."

"GET ON THE GROUND, ON THE GROUND NOW!" Miles yells as he quickly runs up to us, pointing his weapon at us.

---

As we walk down the path I switch back to my rifle and take lead. I check every nook and every cranny for possible enemies. When I come around a corner I see Storm, Cadence and Shining walking towards us.

"GET ON THE GROUND, ON THE GROUND NOW!" I yell as I run up to them, keeping them in my sights.

"Whoa, Miles, calm down! It's me, Storm."

"No it's a changeling, kill it!" Luna yells.

"No, we're the real ponies, not the impostors!" Cadence yells.

"They're lying, kill them!"

"We're not lying!" yells Shining.

"Shut up!" I yell, silencing everyone. I look to Storm for a second before I step next to Luna. "Can changelings copy memories?"

"What... no... but..."

"Storm, answer this question correctly, what was the move?"

"The move?"

"The move." He thinks for a second before I see his face light up.

"You can't be serious."

"I am dead fucking serious, what was the move." He looks back to Shining before he turns to me with a heavy sigh.

"The... flying back breaker."

"It is you!" I yell as I run up to him and sling my rifle. I can see everyone else blushing heavily from the answer, but that doesn't matter. "So I take it you brought my stuff?" He pulls out a bag holding all of my spare gear. Armor, grenades, ammo. I kneel down and start to armor up when Storm brings his mouth to my ear.

"Dude, that wasn't cool. Twilight's overprotective brother is right behind me." He whispers.

"Is he?"

"Yeah, he proved to have knowledge of the real Shining, is that the real Luna?" I stop what I'm doing and look behind me to Luna.

"Plaudet." I say to her.

"Umm... what?"

"Plaudet," I say firmly as I stand up and approach her. She takes a few steps back, trying to keep some distance between us. "Te sunt non Luna." The false Luna takes a few steps back and stops, looking at me with an evil grin. She suddenly turns into one of the changelings and jumps at me. I swing my rifle and smack the butt of it into her face, making her drop to the ground. I pull my rifle back and put three rounds into the side of her head, sending blue sludge onto the surrounding area. I turn back to Storm and the others to find them on the ground holding their ears. Oh, right. I walk up to Storm and heal his ears, also setting a protection barrier in his ear to keep him from losing his hearing. I repeat this for the other two and return to gearing up.

"Ah... what the hell was that?" Storm says as he rubs the side of his head.

"That was the sound my weapon makes when it fires. Don't worry though, I put a spell on you that should protect you from now on," I say as I finish up. "Are you all okay?"

"I'll be fine," Storm says as he starts to walk down the path he came from.

"I've got a little ringing in my ears, but other than that I'm fine," Cadence says.

"I'm good," Shining says. I look over to him and pull out my sword, getting worried looks from everyone.

"You know how to use one of these?" I ask as I point the handle towards him. He levitates it out of my hand and looks it over.

"Of course, I am the captain of the royal guard."

"Yeah... the guard. Do you have any actual fighting experience?"

"Well... no, but..."

"Well okay then, here's the plan. I've got point, I want Cadence behind me with you two covering her flanks..."

"Excuse me?" Shining says.

"Once we're out we'll head to the closest settlement and work our way from there, got it?" I ask as I walk down the path and pull out my rifle. I make it past Storm and continue down the path. As I walk I can hear the three of them talking, but ignore it and focus on the task at hand. We make it to a dead end where I can see a ledge a few meters up.

"The entrance should be up there," Storm says. I nod and drop my rifle, letting my sling hold onto it. I raise my hands and slam them onto the gem beneath us, making it rise so we're even with the ground above.

"So, you finally made it," says a Changeling on the clearing, standing as tall as Celestia with long tattered blue hair. Surrounding her are hundreds of changelings, filling the path. Without a second’s hesitation I reach for an arcane grenade and pop the top off, sending a plume of blue smoke out of it. I toss it into the crowd and raise my hands, creating a shield around the four of us. The larger one teleports out of the cave while the other ones begin to charge at us, until the grenade goes off. A massive ball of blue fire explodes from within the crowd and pushes out past my shield, until the fires suddenly stop. The fire holds there for a second until it pulls back to the point where it came from, leaving a mass of changelings laying on the ground. When the fire’s gone I drop my shield and begin to walk up the path, stepping over the bodies with little care.

"What was that?" Storm says as he runs to my side, followed by Shining and Cadence. "They still look alive."

"They are, kind of. It was an arcane grenade. It doesn't harm the body; it harms the soul."

"The soul... what do you mean?" Cadence asks in a scared tone.

"Well, you take soul fire, give it the purpose of destroying another soul, put it into a capsule, and bam. When it goes off, whoever is unfortunate enough to be touched by the fires, loses their souls. The body continues to live, but they basically become rocks."

"Why would you ever make a weapon that could do that?" Shining asks, getting me to stop and look back.

"See the results?" I ask while pointing back to the mounds of changelings. "Why wouldn't we?" We make our way to the entrance, where Storm informs me of the two guards behind the bush. I pull out my trench knife and slowly walk out. When I emerge I find the two of them immediately and instantly lunge for the closest one, stabbing it in the neck and tackling it to the ground. I stab it repeatedly as Storm jumps the other one and slices its throat with a single swing of his blade.

"Alright, let’s..." I start, but stop when I see Canterlot. Hundreds of green and blue explosions are peppering the city as I can hear the cries of its people.

"Miles, come on, let's get going, they need us!" Storm says as he flies off for the city. I shake my head and run after him, with Shining and Cadence right behind me.

After an hour of running we find an outpost of guards on the outside of the city, and walk into the HQ tent. Shining talks to another guard as Storm and I look over a map of the city together.

"Where would Luna be?"

"Probably here, at the castle. Why-"

"That's where I'm going. You with me?"

"I've got your back." We’re about to head out when two guards stop us.

"I'm sorry, but we can't allow any civilians to enter the city until we get control back," Shining says as he starts to put on armor.

"Ah, don't give me that crap. You know you're going to need us..."

"Look, I'm sorry, but this is royal guard business now, please head to the evacuation..."

"Shut the fuck up Shining," I say, getting a spear to my neck. "How many soldiers do you have?"

"Well..."

"None, that's how many. You have guards. I'm a soldier, and a damn good one too. Do you even have a plan to take the city back or were you just going to waltz in there and hope for the best?"

"Well... we were going to make a plan..."

"Not good enough. The plan is simple," I say as I push the spear away from my neck and turn back to the map of the city. "You start here, the south gate, work your way block by block, until you make it to the castle. From there you hold the high ground and work on clearing every section of the city. Keep your men together and use them as best you can. Keep airmen high, supporting your ground troops whenever possible."

"You realize that that's going to take forever, right?"

"Doesn't matter, if we do it right the first time, we won't have to worry about going back. Now, Storm and I are heading for the castle to find Celestia and Luna..."

"How do you know that they're in trouble?"

"Because changelings are attacking their city and they're not kicking their asses. Any other stupid questions?" He gives me a serious look but stays silent. "Good, we're going now, mobilize your men into a group and we'll see you inside." I start to head out when Shining calls for me. I stop by the flap and turn back to him.

"You might need this," he says as he levitates my sword to me. "Take a squad of guards with you for support, and good luck." I nod to him and take it before we head out.

We make our way to the main gate to the city, which is currently shut. A couple of guards are trying to break it down, but are nowhere near close. I tell Storm to get them to move, and stand before the gate with my hands flaring. He talks to them and points me out, getting them to drop the battering ram and run to the side. Once clear, I run to the door and slam both of my palms into it, sending it flying off its hinges and crashing onto the ground several meters away.

"You four," I say, pointing to the four with the battering ram, "you're with me, we're getting the Princesses, LETS MOVE!" They nod and run after me as I charge into the city. There's a little clearing where the door flew through, but everywhere else there are ponies and changelings fighting. Blue and red blood fills the street as the fight roars on. It seems to be a fairly even fight, but the ponies seem to be on the weaker side. A few changelings charge for us, but I raise my rifle and put some rounds down range.

PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT CLICK

I drop seven enemies and start to reload a new clip. When I get it in and load another round, I have to kick a changeling away, making him crash into another one. I raise my weapon and flare the magic in the hand that holds the grip, making white archaic text appear on my rifle’s barrel. I send a single round into the head of a changeling and make its head explode in a fiery mess, fragging any who were close to it.

"Storm! We've got to get moving!" I yell as I start to run towards the castle. I see him fly into the air and land next to me.

"I just heard that they're bringing Twilight and all of the girls here."

"WHAT! Why?"

"I don't know, but I have to go find her, they're apparently already here."

"Alright, you get to them and keep her safe, I'll head to the castle, where are those four from earlier?"

"In the fight, are you going to be alright on your own?"

"I'll be fine, now go get Twilight!" He nods and takes off in the air. What the fuck are they doing here? Whatever, Storm will handle it, I need to focus. I run and make my way up a deserted street. I keep my weapon raised and stay on the lookout for any potential enemies, checking roofs, alleys, anywhere where they might come out. After a few blocks I hear a crash, and look behind me to find a dead pegasus guard being eaten by three changelings. I put a single round into the center one, killing all three with the one exploding shot. These fucking bastards are eating them. They will pay if they touch a single hair on Luna. I make it to the castle gates with very little opposition, it doesn't feel right, but I'm not complaining. The castle grounds are in disarray as a few guards are trying to fight off hundreds of changelings. I open fire at the ones in the air and make it rain changeling chunks and blue blood.

PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT

My rifle roars out death as I make my way to the castle walls, catching up with the five remaining guards.

"What's your status?" I yell over the roar of my rifle.

"AH... we were trying to get to the princesses, but were cut off."

"Where are they?" I yell as I continue to drop changeling after changeling.

"What?" He yells back. I stop firing and pull him close to me.

"WHERE ARE THE PRINCESSES!?"

"We last saw them in the main court chamber, down the main hall!" He points over to a doorway a few meters away that's covered in changelings. I aim down and open fire on it as I slowly approach it.

PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT PAT CLICK

I drop the magazine and put in the last one as I run down the hall to the main chamber. I stop halfway to the staircase when a large group of changelings start to charge at me. I open fire and start to backpedal. Every shot I send kills two or three of them, only for four or five to take their place. I drop my rifle and throw my arms out, creating a sphere of fire around me that I spin around and expand outward, burning all of the changelings before me. Their screams fill the room over the roar of their burning corpses. After a few seconds the screams end and are replaced with the crackle of burnt flesh. I grab my rifle and run up the stairs, making my way to the court room, where I find another wave of changelings. I unload the rest of my ammo into them and throw my rifle behind me. I pull out my sword and revolver and ready for a fight.

"STOP!" yells a familiar voice, getting the mob to halt and make a clearing for me to walk down. "Please, come here, I would like to have a word with you." I look around, but decide to walk down the path against my better judgement. I make my way past all of the growling changelings to an open room, that has a single seat that's several steps up. In the seat is the changeling from the cave, sitting there, looking as triumphant as ever. Hanging from the ceiling to her left is Celestia. She's been wrapped in some green cocoon and looks to be unconscious. Standing to her right is Luna, looking as if she's in a sort of hypnotic state.

"What have you done to them?" I demand, making her chuckle.

"Oh don't worry, I would never hurt the mare you love - as for Celestia, she will serve as a snack for me later." I raise my pistol at her and send a single round into her chest. The area it hits crumbles away, but quickly regenerates.

"Oh, was that supposed to hurt? HAHAHA, I'm at such a heightened state right now that no mortal weapon could harm me - shoot all of the metal you want, Miles Eremita, there is nothing you can do." I holster my pistol and sheathe my sword. No mortal weapon... I love dumb enemies. I charge my magic and send the lines all the way to my potestatum annulums, making my armor glow from the heat. I hear the changelings behind me try to charge at me, but I twist around and push both of my palms forward, creating a massive beam of soul fire. The beam hits the wall on the other side of the room and creates an explosion that knocks me back a little. When the smoke clears, I look back to see that all of the changelings are either dead or ash, and that the leader has escaped. I shut off my magic and run to Luna, who has fallen over and now seems to be unconscious. I kneel next to her and take her into my arms.

"Luna! Luna! Come on, wake up!"

"Miles... ego sum libenter tuum retro," she says weakly, making me hug her tightly. "Too tight, too tight!" she says getting me to let her go.

"Sorry about that, are you okay? Did they hurt you?"

"No, I'm fine, really. They just put me in a state to feed off of me."

"They... feed off of you?"

"Changelings get their energy from the love of others, when they suck it out of them, they feast on the bodies afterwards."

"So who’s the lucky guy that has your love?" I ask with a big smile on my face.

"Heh, he's this weird human that likes to blow stuff up."

"Sounds like quite the charmer."

"Yeah, you should see the way he kisses, it'll blow your mind." I lean down to kiss her, only to get her hoof in my face. "Not really the appropriate time, you think?" I give her hoof a kiss and help her to her hooves.

"Later then."

---

"Why didn't you tell me you were the bearers of the Elements of Harmony?!" I yell as I slice a changeling down its side, making it drop in cries of pain. I had found the girls on their way to the castle and now we're trying to make our way to the national treasure chambers.

"It didn't really seem like something that I should have told you, can we save this for later!?" Twilight yells back as she blasts a changeling away. We all finish up and start to run down to the chamber.

"So what's the plan, git the elements an' jus' blast away?" Applejack asks.

"Basically, that and beat down anypony who gets in our way," I say. The seven of us make it to the chamber, where we find several dead bodies and a single guard holding onto another dead guard, crying.

"Are you okay?" I ask as I approach the guard.

"*sniffle* They killed him... they, they, they, just flew in and, and, and..." she wails.

"It's going to be alright," I say as I take a seat next to her and motion for the others to get the elements, "who was he?"

"M-my husband... Bronze Spear."

"You have my condolences - he died a hero, and we will make this right, I promise."

"H-how can you say that!" she yells at me. "The princesses have been captured, the royal guards have been defeated, how could we possibly make this right?" I look away for a moment to really think about my answer.

"Because we have the Elements of Harmony, we can win this day." As if on cue, the girls come out of the chamber with the elements on. I look over to them and watch as they start to use them, lifting into the air, then drop to the ground.

"Was that it?" I ask... kind of a letdown.

"I don't get it, why aren't they working?" Twilight says.

"Maybe we did it wrong," Pinkie says while hopping up and down. They try over and over again until they finally give up.

"*sniff* There is no hope," says the guard as she lies next to her dead husband. What do we do now?

---

Luna and I work together on getting Celestia down. When we finally do, I get to work on healing her wounds. There aren't many, just a scorch mark on the end of her horn. Luna simply watches from behind, pacing back and forth.

"Don't worry, she'll be fine. I've got this," I say to reassure her.

"I know, but that doesn't stop me from worrying."

KER-PUNCH

I fall back as Celestia punches me right in the face. She jumps up and looks around to try and get her bearings, only stopping when Luna wraps her in a hug.

"AH... damn girl, that fucking hurt," I say as I sit up, rubbing my cheek.

"Miles... what's going on? Where is the roof? Why is the building on fire? What happened to..."

"Everything is under control, just sit down and relax... damn, that's going to sting... the leader retreated to an unknown location. And as for the building... what can I say, I like to blow stuff up." Luna and I share a small laugh while Celestia just gawks at the destruction. I stand up and look around. I can see the fighting below - it seems Shining went with my plan and is actually making good progress. I look up to the towers and see the leader walk into one of the chambers. "There she is!" I yell as I jump off the ledge, igniting my heels as I drop. When I hit the ground I fling myself high into the air, sending myself as close as possible to the tower. After another leap I slam into the side of the tower and hold on with all four portals flaring. I start to lunge myself up the side when I see Luna fly into the building. What is she doing!? I climb the rest of the way up and swing into the room, where I find Luna wrestling Luna.

"AH... she's the impostor, kill her!"

"No, she is...!" the other one says, only to get a hoof in the cheek. I watch as the two of them wrestle for dominance until I get an idea.

"Hey Luna, did I tell you about the time Tenera and I fucked?" The one on the left looks straight at me in horror as the other one punches her again. Thought so. I throw a ball of energy at the impostor, hitting her in the chest and making her crash through the wall. "Just kidding. Somehow I knew that would work on you."

"You better be kidding."

"I was, still a virgin. Now let’s kick some ass," I say as I leap out of the hole in the wall. I crash below in an open field and face the leader as she picks herself out of a small crater. I pull out my sword with my right and my trench knife with my left. Luna teleports beside me and creates twin cutlasses out of her blue energy.

"If it's a fight you want, then it's a fight you'll get!" The leader yells, as she creates twin bastard swords out of her green energy and charges for us. I run forward and swing my blade to meet hers and go to stab her, only to be caught by the other blade. Luna comes running in from the side and swings both her blades to her exposed side. She jumps out of the way and lands a few meters away. I charge my magic and bring the white text on both my blades. I run to her again and swing my blade early, sending a slash of white energy towards her. She blocks it with her blades but doesn't see Luna run up to her. She gives several furious swipes with her blades, making bright blue lines appear on the changeling’s body, only to have them heal instantly. I run up to the other side when she starts to block Luna's attacks and punch the brass knuckles into her side, sending her flying away as a white explosion blows a chunk out of her side. She rolls on the ground for a bit but slowly gets up when she stops, laughing.

"Hahaha, HAHAHAHA, do you really think you can stop me? Your love has been getting stronger the longer you two are closer, meaning I'm getting stronger and stronger." She turns to us and creates two more of the swords and charges for both of us at once. We both backpedal as we parry her onslaught of attacks. I twist and turn and dodge attack after attack until I get my opening. I twist and thrust my sword into her chest, burying it about half way in. She looks down and rolls her eyes. "Honestly? Like I said, no mortal weapon can kill me."

"Really, cool. Luna, let her have it." Luna bows her head and sends a thick beam of dark blue energy at us, hitting us both. I raise my hands and create a force field to block the rest, but feel the burns from the initial attack. When the energy stops, I drop to my knees and let go of the magic.

"Miles!" Luna yells as she runs to my side. "I'm so sorry, I'm not usually that powerful, please forgive me."

"Damn... my girl can pack a punch," I say before I fall over and pass out.

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