Dark Descent: Beginning
Chapter 14: Part 14: Pinkamena Diane Pie
Previous Chapter Next ChapterLuna knew that this was now the Element of Laughter’s power before her, but she did not expect to see such a dark manifestation of it. It did not matter though, because once she had all of them, her power would be unmatched. Besides, this was a simple earth pony, what could she do against her? She was an alicorn soon to be god.
“Pitiful earth pony! You will NOT talk to me this way!” Luna commanded.
Pinkamena laughed harder, “Oh is Woona getting mad? Here, let’s put a smile on that face!” Pinkamena said as she bolted towards Luna, running on her hind legs. Luna’s eyes went wide, amazed of how fast this pink pony was running towards her. She was running so fast, that Pinkamena now was right in front of her face. She could see the insanity in her tiny red eyes and it actually set something inside Luna, something she didn’t believe she had…fear.
“Think fast!” Pinkamena said playfully.
“Wha-!” Luna wouldn’t be able to finish her sentence as a pink hoof came across her face. Pinkamena felt the cracking of bone against her hoof and watched Luna’s face move with it. A fiery excitement filled in Pinkamena’s body, seeing the wince of pain in Luna’s teal eyes.
Luna felt her jaw crack under the power of her hoof, and felt herself fly against the floor, spiining and rolling onto the ground, the marble floor ripping away as she hit the ground. Pinkamena watched as Luna flew into the ground. She enjoyed hurting her, more than any pony should. Luna had hurt Twilight and if she died…
Luna quickly got up, feeling a sharp pain in her jaw. This mere earth pony had incredible speed and strength. She summoned her sword to her, now wanting to only end Pinkamena.
“Ohhh, what’s wrong Luna? Did I hurt you!?” Pinkamena cried manically. She couldn’t believe how funny it was to see Luna fly across the floor. To feel her hoof against her flesh excited her more than a party could ever do. She wondered how her blood would feel on her…
Luna stared down Pinkamena across the room, becoming more and angrier that this idiotic pony was mocking her.
“Enough with your games! That is nothing compared to the pain you will suffer!” Luna yelled angrily and spread her wings and flew towards her. She gritted her teeth, wanting to end Pinkamena. She was tired of the games and how seemingly carefree this pony was. What she hated more than anything was that for a moment, she, Luna, was actually scared of this now insane pony. She now only wanted to slice her in two, and then see who got the last laugh.
Pinkamena ran towards the enraged Luna. Luna swung her sword right where Pinkamena’s head would meet it, but she had different plans.
“Weeeeee!” Pinkamena exclaimed as she slid on her hind knees, dodged the incoming blade that would have beheaded her, and was sliding right under the flying Luna. “Now, let’s see how you like it when you hurt some pony’s tummy!”referencing to Twilight’s gash in her stomach.
As if time slowed down, Luna realized what just happened. The earth pony had slid right under her, missing her completely, and now was completely vulnerable from underneath. Pinkamena threw her hoof right into Luna’s stomach. Luna gasped, all the air rushing out of her lungs. Pinkamena pushed up more Luna’s stomach. She wanted to push through her flesh and feel the warm blood that ran through her veins, but the full force of her power would not grant her that. Luna flew straight up, smashing against the ceiling, and then began to plummet to the ground.
“I’ll help you Luna!” Pinkamena said, now running in place and stretching her legs. Luna was about to smash right into the floor, but the now insane pony had a different idea. Pinkamena threw her leg out as if she was going to kick a soccer ball, with Luna being the ball. Her pink leg met Luna’s stomach once again, and Luna gasped even more but with blood flying out her mouth from the sheer power of Pinkamena’s kick. She turned her whole body around, putting all of her power into her leg, and sent Luna flying into the wall once again.
“Goal!” Pinkamena said in celebration.
Luna forced herself back up, staggering to get up an all hooves once again. She was still gasping for air, trying to fill her lungs back up with oxygen. How was she so fast? Luna knew she had not put her full speed into that attack, but any normal pony wouldn’t have had reacted that quickly and would have their head rolling off their shoulders before they knew what happened. Then again, this was no normal pony she was fighting with.
“Are you enjoying the party Luna?! Cause I’m having a hell of a time!” Pinkamena exclaimed, laughing at how pitiful Luna looked. She had scratches and bruises and dirt on her, while Pinkamena stood unscathed.
Luna looked around. She realized she could not let Pinkamena get close to her, so she would have to fight her from a distance. Pinkamena was a regular earth pony, so she had no magic that she could use to use ranged attacks, and with no wings she couldn’t use the air to her advantage. She did have speed, but Luna was confident she could dodge them. Pinkamena simply threw her off guard at first. That wouldn’t happen again. She kept looking around, still taking in air that Pinkamena had punched and kicked out of her, trying to see if she could use her environment to her advantage.
“C’mon Luna! I’m getting bored! Let’s play another game! I’ll even let you start!” Pinkamena laughed. Only insane laughing filled her mind. She knew she was toying with Luna and whipping her ass, and she loved it. Luna’s pain and hearing her desperate gasps of air had filled her with a dark happiness.
“SILENCE! I WILL NOT BE TOYED WITH LIKE THIS!” Luna yelled at her. She couldn’t believe that she was letting this pony beat her. She knew the elements were strong , but only had expected the Element of Magic to be the most powerful while the others being weak in comparison, so why was she having trouble dealing with this? The Element of Laughter?
Pinkamena grinned devilishly. She loved that she was getting under Luna’s skin. “Oh, you’re not a toy Luna. You do have a nice coat, though, hmmmm, I can make a scarf for when we get Rarity back. I can call it the Night Sky.” Pinkamena smiled even more at Luna, the thought of skinning Luna’s coat off her and seeing all that blood pour out of her…
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“YOU INSOLENT WENCH! I’M DONE! YOU DIE NOW!” Luna roared. Her eyes glowed a bright white, and her spectral mane burst out. Her horn lit up with a black aura. It became darker and darker around her horn completely covering her sharp appendage. She charged her magic within her, and Pinkamena stood watching and smiling at her. Luna could still see her blood colored pupils burning into hers. She hated it. “DIE!” she screamed as she hurled a one giant black magical spear at her.
Pinkamena ran towards the black bolt and flipped right over it but Luna had already planned that. When Pinkamena came down onto the floor, another bolt was already heading straight for her. Two spectral butcher knives appeared in both of Pinkamena’s hooves covered in the same blood red aura as her body. She raised one of the knives and deflected the bolt which flew straight into the floor, ripping more marble off the floor, leaving only rock and rubble.
Luna was bewildered. How did she now wield two blades, spectral blades no less. Only unicorns could only have the ability to produce that. She was an earth pony! She couldn’t have magic! Luna only watched Pinkamena stand there with her red spectral butcher knives, holding them in a reverse grip. Luna thought to herself how she could have…the element…it was her element! This was not natural magic that Pinkamena drew from, how could she? It was the magic of her element but then another realization came to her. She remembered how the Elements of Harmony were used against her as Nightmare Moon. They were uselsess against her until Twilight figured that the sixth element was magic. It was the spark…the spark! Luna’s mind went into double gear as she knew how to kill Pinkamena. She had to kill the element of magic. Without it, the elements were useless. Pinkamena would be no more without the magic that ran it. She had to finish Twilight off to finish Pinkamena.
Luna looked over Pinkamena to see Celestia near Twilight trying to heal her. She had been fighting the wrong pony. She had to break Celestia’s focus, and have Twilight die.
“Now these are real nice,” Pinkamena said as she admired the two butcher knives she now wielded,”Ooooo, I just got a great idea Loony!”
Luna’s attention was brought back to Pinkamena. She had to focus on killing Twilight but had to maintain her distance from this insane earth pony.
“I’m gonna use these to make a piñata out of you! I can just rip out all those nasty organs of yours, I mean they seem to make you real mean, mean enough to HURT TWILIGHT! But that’s okay. I’m gonna fill you up with happy delicious candy. I’m sure that will make you be good!” Pinkamena said happily.
“You are insane, but we will see how long you last once I finish off your dying Twilight.” Luna sneered.
Pinkamena’s playful demeanor left her. She shook with anger hearing about Twilight. Reminding her that she was dying…
“NO! SHE WON’T DIE! NO ONE ELSE DIES! SHE AND ALL OUR FRIENDS OUR COMING BACK HOME!” She screamed.
Luna brought her eyes back to Celestia and Twilight. Celestia had her eyes closed trying to heal her dying student, focusing only on her and oblivious to the world around her. She had to break her concentration.
Pinkamena caught where Luna’s teal eyes were looking and knew what she planned to do. She was going to go after Celestia and Twilight.
“NO! YOU STAY AWAY FROM THEM! I THREW THIS PARTY JUST FOR YOU BITCH!” Pinkamena ran towards Luna with her new weapons. She was going to carve right into her. Luna switched her focus back to Pinkamena barely dodging one of her swinging knives. She quickly summoned her sword to deflect Pinkamnena’s barrage of slashes and swipes.
Pinkamena threw all her anger into her swipes at Luna. “You hurt my Twilight! It’s your turn to hurt!” Pinkamena yelled still swiping at Luna, only to have them defelcted by Luna’s blade, but she was relentless. She was not stopping and she refused to stop. She had to see her blood, she had to make her bleed.
Luna could only block her savage knives from cutting right into her. She couldn’t take the time for an attack because Pinkamena did not let up. She thought about using her magic but Pinkiamena was way too close for her. She would hurt herself in the process if she did.
The alicorn who wished to be a god, and Pinkamena Diane Pie clashed blades at lightining speeds. If anypony were watching them, they would only see the air moving around the two. Their blades could not be seen by the normal eye. They were only locked in battle with each other, each waiting for the other to slip up so they could cut into the other.
“You do realize this is a wasted effort?! You can’t keep doing this forever! I have fought in countless times and have slain many like you! What makes you think you can win?!” Luna said defending off Pinkamena from her deadly slicing knives.
Pinkamena smiled. Not a wicked smile, but a smile of satisfaction. Luna continued parrying the two blades but was confused. “What are you smiling about?!” Luna asked quickly, carefully dodging another savage slice.
“I’m not trying to win…you have something I need.” Luna suddenly remembered. She knew Pinkamena was keeping her away from Celestia and Twilight, but she had completely disregarded what Pinkamena and Twilight had said.
…All our friends are coming back home!
Luna quickly lit her horn. She had no choice.
“No. You. Don’t!” Pinkmena cried, gritting her teeth now going for Luna’s neck. Luna summoned her magic and fired from her horn hoping the blast would push this now clever and insane pony. She knew she would hurt herself in the process, but she had to. She backed her head away seeing one of Pinkamena’s knives lunge for her neck while she fired her black magic at her. The bolt hit the ground next to them, and the shockwave of the blast pulled them apart, but not before Pinkamena’s knife caught on to the chain of her necklace. The blast tugged them away, ripping the accursed necklace from Luna’s neck. Pinkamena grabbed it with her teeth while flying backwards onto the floor, her body digging right into the ground. Luna followed the same, her body dragging through the ground from her own attack.
Pinkamena opened her eyes realizing she was still on the floor and her spectral butcher knives were gone, but that didn’t matter to her. She spit out the metal chain that had the black gem attached to it. She had it. She had the very key to bringing their friends back. Pinkamena studied the necklace for a moment. The black gem had some type of black liquid swirling continuously in it. It was strange, but she had it. She got up and placed the necklace around her neck. It was her turn to play defense. She could not let Luna get it back. She may be Pinkamena, but she was also still Pinkie Pie. Her love of her friends still proved to be dominant over the insane and blood thirsty Pinkamena.
Luna felt her body drag through the ground, but her focus was elsewhere. She had lost the necklace. The key holding her rightful power. Her key that could make her as powerful as a god. She had sacrificed too much and shed too much blood to lose it to…her. Luna’s body stopped dragging through the ground, as she had done many times now, all because of this one pony. Hatred burned for Pinkamena. She was a lowly earth pony, but for her to be beaten around by her and now tricked to the point of losing her most prized possession, it burned her up. She stood up, now seeing HER necklace, HER rightful power, HER ticket to godhood, around the wretched ponies neck. She opened her wings once more and rose into the air. She had been pushed over her limit.
“THAT IS OURS! HOW DARE YOU TAKE WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY OURS!”
Pinkamena looked up at the enraged Luna. She positioned her hind legs to support her, feeling the fury of Luna’s yelling hit her, threatening to send her backwards, but she stood her ground.
“YOU HAVE TESTED US FOR THE LAST TIME PIKAMENA DIANE PIE! NOW ALL OF YOU WILL DIE!”
“Oh good! You got my name right! Are you mad that I got your precious little necklace? I think we need it more than you. How can you become a god when you can’t even take care of your stuff!?” Pinkamena yelled back to her. She loved seeing Luna so angry at her. She could hear Luna’s blood boiling over and flowing through her. She wanted to swim in it. But Pinkie’s friends were more important for now. She was Pinkie’s element, and she would do what Pinkie desired most. For now, it was her friends.
“ENOUGH! YOU ALL DIE!” Luna roared. Several black shards formed around Luna, pointing at Pinkamena, Celestia, and the dying Twilight. Pinkamena’s blades reappeared, as if they knew she was going to need them, but how? She would have to protect Celestia and Twilight. If any one of those hit Celestia and either lose focus or kill her, Twilight was done for, and then she would be done for. She couldn’t protect them with just these two knives. No. She needed more, much more. Pinkamena threw the pair of knives away and threw her arms in front of her. She had a nice big present for her dear Luna.
“DIE!” Luna commanded, and all the black shards flew through the air to their intended targets. Several spectral knives appeared, forming an arch over Pinkamena.
“YOU FIRST!” Pinkamena yelled and threw her arms forward, throwing the knives to meet Luna’s black deadly shards of magic. Both of their attacks met each other. Every one of Luna’s black magical shards met Pinkiamena’s flying knives with loud pop sounds, destroying both the meeting knives and Luna’s dark magic.
Luna watched in all her fury as her attack failed. Pinkamena was no easy task to deal with. Twilight was powerful, but this was something completely different. She was not the party pony that loved to laugh, and also the one that feared her, but now it was one that only wanted to see her suffer and die, but she was also dangerously smart. She had gotten her so preoccupied with her, that she kept her from Celestia, and even tricked her into losing her prized necklace. And Pinkamena knew it. This was no longer Pinkie Pie. What she faced was Pinkamena Diane Pie.
“You are powerful Pinkamena. I would have never expected the Element of Laughter to be such a formidable opponent. You have thrown me around as if a doll with ease. You are a power to be reckoned with. But this must end! You will not leave here alive with my key to becoming a god! None of you will leave here alive! Give up and accept your inevitable death!” Luna declared.
Pinkamena listened to her and could only laugh now.
“My death? You’re the one getting her plot kicked around by me! It’s not my death you should be worried about. And why does it have to end? I have still so much to show you Luna! This party has only started!” Pinkamena laughed out manically, now summoning not just several but almost hundreds of blood red spectral knives floating over her, pointing for Luna.
Luna horn lit up brightly and hundreds of black shards floated in midair along with her.
“Try as you might Pinkamena, but I am to be a god! One that will have power beyond imagining! Nothing will stop me from my rightful power. I deserve the Elements of Harmony! I will stand while Equestria’s enemies bleed before me! You cannot hope to defeat a god!”
Pinkamena smiled, motioning her arms forward again, ready to throw hundreds of pierceing knives to open Luna up and spill her blood through the hall.
“You’re not a god yet Luna!”
Luna gritted her teeth, hearing her words.
“But I’ll tell you one thing bitch.”
Luna readied her black shards to pin the pink pony to the floor and turn her into a bloody impaled piece of flesh.
“Even gods….!” They both fired their projectiles, both only watching as deadly blades and magic flew toward one another.
“Even gods can bleed!”
(A/N. So, here I am 2:00 in the bloody morning writing this in my hotel room. God, what is wrong with me? I know I said it would be till Monday or Tuesday that I would have this part up, but for some reason when I went to bed at nine today, my brain was telling me write the damn thing...and I enjoyed every single bit of it. Anyways, so here is part 14, probably my favorite from my whole layout. So, yes, I know Monday or Tuesday but ponies got me once again. Confound them, I'm going to bed. Leave some comments or send some hate whichever you want, I'm all for it. Enjoy!)
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