The Dungeon Master of Equestria
Chapter 27: Why Does it Always Have to be One After Another?
Previous Chapter Next Chapter“Tirek?!” Twilight screamed. “But how? Me and my friends banished him to Tartarus with the power of the rainbow!”
“I-I…. I….” Twilight stammered.
“Listen, we need to get Princess Celestia out there!” the guard screamed. “Tirek is rampaging through town and screaming for the Champion. We can all only assume it’s Celestia.”
“I’m…. I’m not….” Celestia said.
“Princess!” the guard said. “There’s no time! We have to get the Champion out there!”
“Then stand back,” I said, walking out of the room. “Let me do my job.”
“Who the hell was that?” the guard asked. “And who does he think he is?”
“That’s Dox,” Celestia said. “He’s the champion.
Tirek was massive. It was evident that he had absorbed a ton of magic, due to the fact that he was easily three times my size. What had given him this much magic? On the show, he was about one and a half times the size of Celestia when he absorbed the magic in all of the ponies. I’m as tall as Celestia! How did he get so massive?
“Champion!” Tirek yelled. “Come out and face me!”
“I’m here!” I yelled at the massive beast that was Tirek. “Stop destroying the town. The homes belong to innocent ponies, I’m the one you’re after.”
“You?!” he laughed. “You’re nothing but a small meal of magic to me. Surely the Champion would be more…. impressive.”
“What you see is what you get!” I screamed. “Now stop attacking these ponies!”
“You are just a pretender.” he said. “Although, you may have a use. I could use a magical snack.”
Tirek picked me up in his telekinesis and opened his mouth. Before he could ‘inhale’ my magic, I unsheathed my sword with my own telekinesis and slashed the corner of his mouth. The effect was instant, he tossed me back a bit, sent my sword flying off, and clamped his hands to his mouth. I could see a bit of blood oozing from between his fingers. I had gotten him good.
But not good enough as he instantly picked me up again and proceeded to scream at me.
“YOU INSOLENT LITTLE BRAT!” he screamed, crushing me a bit in his magical grasp. “I DON’T CARE WHO YOU ARE! YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!”
He then proceeded to spin around before flinging me into a nearby building. That building just so happened to be the town’s gym. As I went on my imminent journey to the ground, I hit an active treadmill, bouncing off into an elliptical, before finally ending up bouncing off the wall full of weights and landing on my face, right before a dumbbell fell off a rack and pinned me to the ground.
“Ow….” I said. I struggled under the weights. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t budge. Tirek showed up a few minutes later with my sword in his magical grasp.
“So sad,” he said. “Too bad the mighty ‘Champion’ is to meet his end at the hands of the mighty Tirek. When you’re dead, I will take your magic and continue my search for the real Champion.”
“I told you already,” I said. “I am the real champion!”
“Such sad last words,” he taunted. He then sent my sword flying at me, only to end up impaling me through my spine and pinning me to the floor. “I will tell the real Champion what has happened in his lack of attendance.” He walked away from me, leaving me to bleed to death on the floor of the gym.
Before I could lose consciousness, I noticed something:
The dice were glowing.
The DM said I had to pay better attention, so now I am. What do you want me to do big guy?
Roll me……
Roll me? Roll the dice….. Come on…. Just got to…
I rolled the dice, only for them to land all perfect.
It was then, I felt a surge of energy. As I forced myself up, I felt all of the weights fall off of me, all of my bones snap to place, my wounds close, the sword dislodge itself from my back (Which was kind of painful), and my weight shift. Wait, what?
I’m…. I’m a biped again! HELL TO THE YEAH! I’m in my old body again! But, the cloak…. It’s big and long again. And my sword is gone again…. And I can’t feel anything….. What is going on?
That was the perfect roll. Consider this move a gift. Now USE it!
Right. Tirek, I’m coming for you!
I used my weird teleport ability to get to the top of a building in front of Tirek, surprising him greatly.
“And who are you?” he asked. “If you are the Champion, I already killed someone while you sat around doing nothing. In a few seconds, I’m even going to kill-”
That was all he got out before I slammed my fist into the center of his face, breaking his nose and spraying blood on the ground.
“Why you little!” he screamed, charging up a spell. “DIE!” he shrieked, shooting a massive bolt of energy at me.
I just stood where I was and held up my hand. When the beam made impact, nothing happened. It just disappeared into my cloak. I then started running on some weird instinct that the DM must have put in my brain and lifted my other hand. I can tell you, I wasn’t the only one surprised to see Tirek’s beam coming out of the sleeve. It impacted Tirek, sending him sprawling to the ground outside of Ponyville.
Where he went, I had to follow.
When I teleported over to the field that Tirek was now in, I realized two things:
One, my cloak had turned back into the tattered brown thing that went from my shoulders to my waist.
Two, Tirek had shrunk considerably. He was now only twice my size. Could it have been his own magic hitting him?
Either way, I had my sword now, and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t do that trick with deflecting magic again. Let’s get to this, then.
“You insolent little brat!” Tirek screamed at me. “You will pay for that!”
“Not likely!” I yelled.
I charged Tirek. He tried to kick me. And so it went on for several hours, neither of us letting up. The battlefield that was once a majestic field of tall grass had become a giant, barren crater, with me and Tirek still battling in the center of it.
During our bouts, I was able to cleave off one of his horns. He was able to get revenge on me and left a rather large gash on my left arm that oozed a rainbow liquid that I had come to know as my blood now. There was a ton of it staining the battlefield, along with his own crimson blood.
So, here we were, in the middle of the crater, covered in blood, and tired as hell. We’re both ready to end it here and now. Both of us are starting to muster the last of our energies for the final attack.
Tirek launches his first. It’s a massive beam of energy, one that is as big around as he is tall. I don’t have a single move that can counter it. I’ve already proven that during our fight when he launched another, much smaller beam and I tried using Hit Stream. It slowed it down, but it still went straight through.
I’ve only got one chance, but wait, the dice are glowing again.
Ultimum Judicium
What?
Use it. USE IT NOW!
Alright then…..
I charge up as much energy as I can before charging at Tirek and into his beam of energy sword first, all the while shouting, “Ultimum Judicium!”
Amazingly, my sword pierces through the beam, sending the energy away from me, right as it hits the tip. In the end, I feel it hit something solid and then stop. I look up to see that I’ve impaled Tirek with my sword.
Then things go black.
“The void again?” I said as I floated through the nothingness.
I saw Tirek floating there with me, as well as the astral projection of the DM.
“Uh, big guy?” I said. “What did you just make me do?”
That was a form of Judgement.
“Uh, huh.” I said. “And what exactly does it do?”
That was final judgement. As such, this is the last time he shall be judged.
“And what do you mean by that?” I asked.
His judgement…. is death…. followed by an eternal trip to the realm of Hell. Now enact his sentence.
“Very well then.” I said, floating up to Tirek, who seemed to be paralysed. “Tirek, you have been judged. Your sentence….” -I lifted up my sword- “... is death!”
I brought down my sword, cleaving off his head. It floated away from his body, which went limp the second it was severed from the head.
The last thing I saw before I returned to the normal world was Tirek’s look of horror on his severed head.
When I got back out of the void, I found myself lying down in a room made of crystal. I must have been dragged back to Twilight’s castle.
I proceeded to force myself up and walk through the door of the room. Outside said door, were Twilight and her friends, sans Fluttershy. I immediately started freaking out and backing up, until Twilight explained that she had used some of my ‘rainbow blood’ that had been leaking down my arm to find and cure her friends. She said that after she did, the entire population of Ponyville seemed to come out of a trance, everyone questioning what had happened.
When I asked her what had become of the battlefield and of Tirek’s body, she hesitated. Apparently the entire battlefield had regrown the second she pulled me out of the crater. She told me it was amazing to watch it just repair itself. She dodged answering about Tirek, however. When I was finally able to get her to talk about him…… she froze. Apparently his body wasn’t there when they retrieved me. She said it was like he was there, and then he wasn’t.
She advised that I just go back in the room I was in, calling it my room, and to rest.
For once, I took up her advice and went to sleep.
Later that night, I awoke to see someone entering my room.
They went up to me and crawled into my bed, snuggling me before falling asleep.
I couldn’t do anything about it at that moment, so I just went back to sleep.
Next Chapter: A Day to Remember (Part 1) Estimated time remaining: 17 Hours, 4 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Celestia damn. This took so long to freaking write. I kept going to open a new tab in my browser, only to hit the close tab button on accident, effectively ruining any progress I made. I finally switched to using Google Docs, first. One headache removed.
Oh, and who was that pony? Why did they cuddle Dox? Why am I doing this again?
Well, I'll explain two of those things later. The thing about me doing this again, well, I just wanted to.Anyways, this is Music Mod, signing off.