Dark Descent: Beginning
Chapter 17: Part 17: One Hell of a Party
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe thousands of knives flew towards Luna, threatening to turn her into Pinkamena's new pin cushion. She sent her black shards of magic to meet them. The thousands of knives and black shards clashed against each other, and only destroyed each other once again. Pinkamena watched as their two attacks met each other once again as they did before, and watched as it gave a small show of fireworks. Pinkamena knew she could try and attack Luna while she was occupied guiding her magic into her knives, but she had the necklace. She didn't want to risk losing it, but she wanted to have as much fun as she could with Luna before she had to go. She knew her fun would have to end once Celestia was done doing what she had to do with Twilight, but she just had to get a feel for Luna's blood before she had to leave the party. She ached to have her blood drown her body....
Luna concentrated her black bolts to deflect the thousands of knives that the pink red eyed maniac had sent her way, trying to watch Pinkamena at the same time. She knew she was vulnerable but she only watched in the air as Pinkamena stood there and just watched her. She stared at the black gem that hung around Pinkamena's neck. She had to have it back. It was hers. Luna deflected the last deadly blade and looked down on this pony who giving her so much trouble.
"Even with everything you throw at me, you still cannot bring me down Pinkamena. I am destined to rule over Equestria with power, while you are destined to have your blood pave my path."
Pinkamena beamed at her. She loved Luna's little dramatic speeches. " Now what kind of party would it be if that's all I had Luna? And I don't know about destiny and all that mumbo jumbo, all I know is that you talk a lot." Luna face turned a dark shade of red. "Oh are you getting angry again? Did I make the wanna-be god mad?" Pinkamena teased.
"SHUT UP!" Luna yelled and flew towards her in a blinding rage. She couldn't believe how this pony could so openly mock her, and not seem to care.
Pinkamena summoned her knives once again in her hooves. She wasn't going to let this chance pass by. She wanted to see Luna's flesh tear open, and have the glistening life giving liquid pour over her. Pinkamena waited until she saw Luna's face right before her. Her heart skipped a beat as she lifted her knives and plunged them right into Luna's head while she was still in midair. Luna's body stopped and suddenly dropped to the ground, halted by two blades rammed into her head. Pinkamena felt an uncontrollable excitement and laughter rise in her. She started laughing loudly, her blood curdling laugh ringing through the destroyed hall. She had done it. She had killed Luna and took her precious life. Pinkamena felt powerful and happy. Now she would finally have her prize and see Luna's blood once she removed her knives from her skull. She quickly pulled her knives out, expecting to see rivers of precious blood to pour out but none came. She was confused and looked at her blades. They were completly clean, leaving no trace of blood on them.
"Behind you." a voice whispered into her ear. Pinkamena quckly turned her head, and was met with a blast of magic right to her face, sending her flying straight into the opposite wall. Pinkamena crashed into the wall and fell to the ground. She grinned as she laid on the floor at this new sensation in her body. It tingled through her, and realized what she was experiencing was pain...it felt good. She slowly got up, but the red aura that had surrounded her grew brighter.
"Good trick Luna. I didn't think of you as a prankster. You know, before you KILLED HER, Rainbow Dash and I used to prank a lot on other ponies."
Luna looked at her with confusion. She had blasted her right into the wall, and Pinkamnea just got back up like it was nothing to her. She couldn't understand why she couldn't break this mare. The fake Luna that laid on the ground dissapated into smoke, leaving nothing in it's wake. Luna was hoping that now that she had actually hit her, that it would break Pinkamena's cocky attitude, but it seem to only make it worse. She was not one to be mocked, and she would not tolerate it. Pinkamena had to die. Luna knew what she needed to do was go after Celestia, but she was tired of Pinkamena and now only wanted to kill her while everything else could go to hell for all she cared. The only thing she cared about was sending this disrespectful pony to hell herself.
"If you liked that, then I have plenty more to show you Pinkamena."
Pinkamena bounced up and down in happiness. "Oh good more tricks! Show me, show me, show me!"
Luna face scrunched up in displeasure seeing her happy. If she wanted tricks then she will give it to her. Her horn lit up and instantly she had made another copy of herself. The copy of her made another copy, and it continued until there were now six Luna's against Pinkamena. Luna smiled, delighting in the thought of how the pink pony must have felt now.
Pinkamena watched as Luna duplicated herself, her heart thumping against her chest but it wasn't of fear. It was of more excitement. She loved how the party was going so well and Luna was making it better and better. She watched as there were now six Luna's that now stood against her. She gripped her knives in her hooves, trembling slightly at the thought of not killing Luna once, but six times, even if they were copies. She could feel her blood rush through her, and adrenaline pumped into her body.
"Well Pinkamena, you wanted tricks, I shall give them to you. This will be the last trick you ever see in your pathetic life."
Pinkamena smirked at Luna's declaration. " You can be so silly Luna, but I have seen better."
"Very well then. Let's begin the show then shall we?" Pinkamena stood on her hind legs once more, getting herself ready.
"Oh goody, I love shows. Especially WHERE I MAKE YOU BLEED!" she suddenly yelled and charged at the six Luna's. She couldn't help it anymore. She forgot entirely of her original plan of just keeping the necklace by staying on the defesne, but Luna has been teasing her, not sharing that precious blood with her, and it drove her more insane than she already was. She didn't like Luna being so selfish, so she would help her learn to share.
Luna and her doppelgangers charged Pinkamena. What she really wanted was the necklace back. Her own copies would at least keep Pinkamena distracted enough for her to at least retrieve her prized item. At the most, Pinkamena would die in the process as an added bonus.
One of the Luna's fired a bolt of magic towards the charging pink pony. Pinkamena quickly swerved herself out of the way. Her red eyes now glowed an intense blood red, focusing on only killing all of them. Thoughts of shoving her blades into all them swam in her head. She didn't care if they were the real Luna or not, why only try to go for one when you can have fun with all of them? Pinkamnea kept running towards the group of Luna's. All of them in unison summoned thier swords and attacked at once. Pinkamena met all six swords against her knives, holding them from slicing into her. Her arms started to shake under the strenght of the Luna's pushing down against her knives.
"What is wrong Pinkamena? I thought you were stronger than this," the Luna's said together as they pressed their engulfed black blades against her red radiating spectral knives. They kept pressing down into her, and Pinkamena was being pushed down into the ground to the point of it cracking under her back hooves.
"Oh, sorry Luna, I thought we were playing around. I guess you meant you wanted to play a real game! Let's play!" Pinkamnea's eyes now burned a bright red, and a blood colored mist trailed from her eyes. All six Luna's faces turned into ones of alarm, as Pinkamena pushed against all of their swords, now pushing them back. Luna didn't understand where she could possibly be getting all this power from. It seemed that Pinkamena seemed to have no limit on her power, unlike Twilight who seemed to lose it if she lost control, but Pinkamena was nothing like that. She felt Pinkamena's strength through her sword, forcing her and her copies to weaken against her power.
Pinkamena's red aura now swirled around her. Her flat mane and tail and coat turned to an even more darker shade of pink. Luna's eyes opened in astonishment as she saw Pinkamena's eyes glowing blood red and her very power swirling around her. Fear rose up in Luna again, but it went form fear to terror as she saw Pinkamena's eyes. They werent just blood red, but there was blood coming out as if she was crying blood.
Pinkamena felt a heat deep in her stomach rising in her. It burned her body with excitement and ached. She needed to spill Luna's blood, her body demanded it. Nothing else mattered to her anymore. The necklace, Pinkie's friends, and not even Twilight no longer mattered. Luna's blood on her skin is what only mattered now. Pinkamena felt her eyes sting and felt something warm run down her face. She knew exactly that it was her own blood, but this would not satisfy her need for Luna's.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! BLEED DAMNIT!" Pinkamena roared as she pushed against all six swords with such force that she shoved them right out of their magical grasp, sending them flying into the air, and leaving Luna and her copies defenseless.
"YEAH! C'MON! LET'S PLAY A REAL GAME!"
Pinkamena shoved herself into the heart of the now terrified Luna's. The real Luna heart was gripped with horror. She had seen many terrible things in her life, but seeing Pinkamena like this was by far more terrible than anything she had encountered. It wasn't her appereance that scared her, but Pinkamena's lust for her blood. She had never seen any pony as blood thirsty as this. Not even herself.
Pinkamena threw her two blades right into the chests of the two Luna's that stood in front of her. She quickly turned to the one on her right and quickly jumped up and locked her legs onto it's neck. The Luna across from the one that Pinkamena now had in a choke hold with her legs fired a magical blot towards Pinkamena. The dark pink mare pushed the neck of the Luna she had, and bent her neck all the way backwards with a sick cracking of bone, sending it dropping on the ground, and Pinkamena completely dodging the bolt. The real Luna watched as Pinkamena slaughtered her doppelgangers, and she couldn't move. She didn't understand why she was now scared. She was Princess Luna, the Princess of the Night. She had fought in wars and had seen horrors in her time that if any other normal pony would have seen the things she had seen, they would kill themselves to be rid of the images. Seeing Pinkamena was seeing fear itself, and it gripped Luna's heart.
Pinkamena went over to the two copies of Luna that had her two knives plunged into each of their chests and pulled them out. She looked over to the last three Luna's. She looked into each of their faces, and saw the fear in the one that stood between the two and pointed her trembling hoof to her.
"You have to learn to share Luna!"
"What are you talking about!? Why won't you just die!?" Luna yelled out of terror. She just wanted this feeling gone from her heart. She was the one supposed to be inducing fear, not the other way around.
Pinkamena started laugh uncontrallably. "I love the fear in your face Looney! IT EXHILARATES ME! How does it feel to know fear?! How does it feel to know the same feeling that YOU put my friends through?! How does it feel to know that some pony wants your blood?! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I WANT YOURS! I WANTTO DROWN IN IT AND I'M GOING TO GET IT LUNA! YOU WILL LEARN TO SHARE!!" Pinkamena roared through her laughter. Luna felt herself to actually begin to shake at her words.
"Now, lets get rid of these other two," Pinkamena positioned her knives,"Besides, this party is only for me and YOU!" Pinkamena flung her knives into the two copies that stood beside the real Luna. Luna watched as the two blades went right into both their chests with a thud, but they didn't just lodge themselves inot them, the two knives started to sink into them, until they were completely gone. She looked over to see Pinkamena raise both of her arms. Both Luna's started screaming in agony as Pinkiamena moved her arms around. The Princess of the Night realized what was happening. Pinkamena could control her knives to the point that she could send them into a pony and kill them from the inside by moving her knives in them. Luna knew that the two copies were not actually her, but their screams frightened her. They were her screams...
The two copies fell to the floor and became stiff. Pinkamena threw her arms back towards her, and the two blades ripped out of both of their heads with a sick slicing sound.The dead copies now vanished into smoke, leaving the true Luna by herself. Both knives flew right back into her hooves, now wanting the last Luna that stood. Blood dripped to the floor from Pinkamena's burning red eyes, and Luna could hear the pitter patter of the crimson drops make contact with the floor.
"Anymore tricks Luna? I really,really would like to see more. I want your last moments to be fun!"
Luna couldn't answer. She didn't know what to do. She had plenty more 'tricks' but so far Pinkamena has dismantled every one of her attacks. It seemed this pony just couldn't be stopped. Luna decided that she may not be enough alone, but maybe with many against Pinkamena, she would fall. Luna cast a black sheild over her. Her eyes glowed white, and her horn started flashing on and off.
Pinkamena cheeks were now stained with her own blood. She watched as Luna's horn kept flashing like a light bulb behind her black bubble that covered her.
"I don't like this trick! Show me another!" She threw her knives at the bubble but they were deflected right off, not leaving a scratch on Luna's protective shield. Luna knew her shield would hold up as long as Pinkamena didn't go full out rage on her. She only had the shield hold a bit longer to call some friends of hers over.
"I want to PLAY LUNA! Your just standing there and it's boring me!" Pinkamena yelled in annoyance. She wanted to continue with the party and Luna was just standing there behind her bubble. She took all this time to throw such a great party and have fun, but Luna was just being boring now for her.
Luna ignored her and kept focusing her mind. She needed help and she knew the very ones that were bound to her will. Her very own guard. She will have them take Canterlot and take down this insane blood consumed pony. The Lunar Guard were bound to her will, whether they knew it or not. She has had some ponies join knowing what it meant, while some just thought of it as another job, but she had planned this for several years now. She had been marking her guards with magical symbols, though they did not know it. When one had completed training and joined the Lunar Guard, they would come to her and take the oath of service to her. They would kneel before her, and she would point her horn at them, granting them her 'blessing'. What she was really doing was the very opposite. It was a curse that she would put on them, a curse that bound their will to hers, and when she needed them, all she would have to do is call, and they would be willing to commit suicide for her if that's what she wished. What she wished now was for them to completely control Canterlot and kill Pinkamena Diane Pie.
Pinkamena watched Luna do whatever she was doing. She was simply standing there in her little bubble with glowing eyes and her horn kept flashing on and off. This was no fun at at all for her. She was coming to the decision that she would have to bring the party to Luna once again, but that thought would be cut off. The sun that was pouring in through the broken stained windows was waning away, and a darkness covered it. It was still mid-morning, and Pinkamena knew enough that it should not be getting dark out. She took her attention off Luna, and walked slowly over to one of the windows near her, not wanting to be caught off guard by Luna. She quickly looked out and saw it wasn't the sky becoming black, but it was an armada of pegasi. She looked down at the ground and saw guards surrounding the castle. Lunar Guards. Something clicked in her insane head. Luna was calling on her guard for help!
Pinkamena quickly got away from the window to bring her attention back to Luna. Luna now dropped her shield and her eyes went back to their normal teal color. The fear she had before was gone, and she took confidence that she had now power in enormous numbers. Lunar Guards started to fly in through the broken windows to aid their princess. Pinkamena watched as they surrounded her to protect her. They dawned the Lunar guard armor and every single one of them looked almost the same as each other. They all had gray colored coats and black manes with different cutie marks, but all of their eyes were a dark black, not even the whites of their eyes could be seen. They were taken by Luna's curse and only had one purpose now: Obey Luna.
"What now Pinkamena? You have been doing well with just me, but how well can you do against many?!" Luna let this new-found confidence take her. About twenty Lunar pegasi stood between Pinkamena and Luna, and they only waited for a command from the dark princess.
"Oh good! You brought more friends. I said I just wanted this party for me and you, but maybe I have been a selfish pony. Parties are always better with more ponies to enjoy it!" Pinkamena exclaimed.
Luna smiled at her, figuring this mare had no idea that she was going to kill innocent ponies.
"These are my guard, as you may well know, and they do whatever I wish them to do. What they do now is not by choice, but by my will Pinkamena. This is not something they want to do, but something they have to do, despite their choice. How willing are you to kill innocent ponies that have no will of their own?" Luna knew that Pinkamena was different from Pinkie Pie, but since she was Pinkie Pie's element, and Pinkie Pie hates hurting other ponies, how could Pinkamena hurt ponies that were under her control?
Pinkamena laughed at her and more blood streamed away from her eyes.
"You are hilarious Luna! I'm going to miss you when I kill you because I had never had some pony make me laugh this much in one day! I don't care if they are under your crazy mind magic or not, I'll kill them all!" Pinkmanea declared, throwing her arms up with both spectral knives still in her hooves.
Luna's smile dissapeared instantly. This was not the answer she had expected, but regardless, Pinkamena was greatly outnumbered.
"So be it Pinkamena. Guards! Protect your princess and retrieve her necklace from the treacherous Pinkamena! Kill her!" Luna commanded. All twenty of the pegasi charged her at once. Luna knew they had no weapons of their own, but her curse amplified their strength to where they could punch right through a pony's skull and rip the brain right out if they wished to. She wondered how Pinkamena's brain would look like...
"I thought I could throw parties, but Luna, you have outdone even me! THIS IS A HELL OF A PARTY!"
Pinkamena summoned exactly the number of knives she needed for the oncoming pegasi. One knife for each, nothing more, nothing less. She flung two knives and they lodged perfectly into two guards' heads and they dropped ot the floor as their lives came to a sudden end.
Her magical knives started to spin around like a moon orbiting a planet. All of the pegasi jumped into the air and spread out their wings. They formed a type of line in the air, and nosedived one by one into Pinkamena.
"This is going to be easy." Pinkamena said to herself in a joyous squeak. They were all just single file for their impending deaths. She launched every one of her spinning knives at the line of pegasi. The blades started to surround them in a whirlwind of deadly cuts. Pinkamena saw their blood dripping from the air as every single one of them were cut by her deadly knives, keeping them trapped within the whirlwind of insane death.
Luna summoned her sword and pointed it at Pinkamena, taking the oppurtunity to make a move while she was distracted keeping her guards trapped.
"It's time to die Pinkamena!" Luna's blade extended and shot toward's the unsuspecting Pinkamena.
Something in Pinkamena's head shocked her out of her trance of keeping the Lunar Guards trapped in midair with her entraptment of knives. She looked toward Luna and saw the tip of a black blade coming straight towards her. She clapped her hooves together, and all the knives plunged into the remaining guards, killing them all in an instant as they all dropped to the ground. She quickly turned and grabbed the blade between her hooves before it pierced right through her head. Her body was pushed back as her hind hooves dragged into the ground as Luna's blade continued pushing towards her until Pinkamena felt her back slam against the wall. She held the blade in place and it was only mere inches from her face. She saw blood running down her arms from her holding the side of the blade as Luna turned it, and it grinded against Pinkamena's hooves.
"Since you like blood so much, let's see yours!" Luna was ecstatic that she now had the upper hand. No pony has ever induced fear in her until now, but fear was only a feeling. This was reality, and the reality was that she will be ruler of Equestria, and this pink pony would die by her hoof.
Pinkamena's arms trembeled trying to hold the blade from piercing through her. Blood was dripping onto the floor and ran down her arms as Luna continued turning her accursed blade. Pinkamena closed her eyes trying to keep the blade from ending her life.
"What? No funny comment this time Pinkamena! Do you see your death right in front of you that you now lost your nerve?!"
Pinkamena felt her strength waning away quickly. She couldn't die here. She had to feel Luna's blood. It was unacceptable if she was killed before she had the pleasure of draining Luna's body of all the lovely red fluid, but she knew she couldn't hold the impending blade much longer.
Twilight will die...
Pinkamena opened her eyes and the blood that flowed out of them ceased and the red mist that seeped from them disappeared. One of her red colored pupils turned blue and the red aura that radiated form her body now were two colors of red and pink. A flow of new strength filled her body and she gripped the turning blade with her hooves and held it still. Luna tried to turn her blade but Pinkamena was holding it from turning anymore. She looked over to her in shock of where she had this new strength come from. Her eyes were now two different colors and her aura followed suit.
"No Luna. I can't die here. Twilight needs me. YOU WILL DIE!" Pinkamena yelled in anger. A red aura shot into the sword and made its way to Luna. Luna could barely see it shoot through her sword before it hit her. The red aura shot straight into her. She lost her focus and magical grip on her blade and fell to the ground. She felt an electric pain shooting through her body, and she writhed in agony on the ground, tossing her body around. It shot into her head, filling her mind with images of Pinkamena ripping out every one of her organs and shoving them into her mouth to consume. Random scenes of Pinkamena doing terrible things to Luna filled her mind and black fear grabbed at her heart.
The blade dropped onto the floor before Pinkamena. She watched as Luna tossed herself around in the ground screaming out in pain and horror. Pinkamena felt Pinkie Pie's presence within her, reminding her of Twilight, and the necklace that hung around her neck. Pinkamena still ached to cut Luna open, but she kept in mind about Celestia and Twilight. That was her main responsibility. She had to protect them, and she had been doing just that, but she was also becoming lost in her lust for blood. Pinkie Pie kept her in check and reminded her why she was fighting. She went over to the pile of dead guards that were laying in a pool of dark crimson, and pulled two knives covered in blood out of two of the guards bodies while Luna continued screaming. It was music to her ears. She slowly went over to the pain wrecked body that was Luna, until she was standing over her, smiling to see her in such pain.
Luna screamed feeling her body tortured inside. Whatever Pinkamena did to her was running through her body like fire and burning her inside. She felt as if her insides were melting inside of her, and her mind was just filled with images of Pinkamena, smiling, just watching her in her torture. She felt something against her neck and the images and burning ceased, and her attention was to a Pinkamena that now stood over her and held a bloody knife right to her throat.
"Hi Luna," she said, positioning her knife under Luna's neck, her pupils shaking at the the thought that she was finally going to kill her. Luna looked into her red and blue eyes, seeing Pinkamena's desire.
"This can't be. How could I be beaten by a pony like you? I am destined to rule Equestria, you are to die."
Pinkamena beamed at her denial of her impending death.
"I CAN'T DIE! I MUST BE A GOD TO SAVE EQUESTRIA!" Luna screamed in desperation.
"Oh Luna, you talk about saving Equestria but," she brought the other knife that she held in her hoof and licked the blood clean off of it and took in it's delicious flavor. Some of the blood from the blade dropped onto her lower lip, and she took no notion of licking it away or wiping it off. She loved how the thick blood trailed off her lip. "But who will save you?"
Luna looked up to Pinkamena, the harbinger of her coming death.
"Even if you kill me Pinkamena, my guards will still be in my control. You will die here no matter what. They have taken Canterlot and they have the castle surrounded. If you plan to walk away from this alive, then you are mistaken."
Pinkamena smirked at her.
"And they will die just as you as you will. I really had fun Luna, it was a great party, but I'm afraid all good things must come to an end." Pinkamena leaned in close to Luna's face. Luna couldn't do anything. Her body wouldn't move and she was petrified with fear.
"But before you go, I want to give you a going away present." Pinkamena pressed her lips against Luna's. Luna's eyes opened in shock, her mind screaming in terror. This was not a kiss of love, but of death. Pinkamena pulled away and left some blood on Luna's lips.
"Well Luna..." Luna looked in her eyes once again, knowing that her time was ticking away. She was supposed to be a god, she was going to save Equestria: what had went wrong?
"I had a lot of fun, but you have been selfish. You need to learn to share Luna."
Luna closed her eyes, angry now that she was going to die by some lowly earth pony.
"You got to care...."
Luna's body stiffened.
"You got to share...."