Burning Crusader: Burning Ranger
Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Azure Flames
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“Excuse me, but what did you just say?” asked Sandy, asking the colt in light purple armor on.
“I said drop your weapons and the filly, and get on your knees creatures!” yelled Shining Armor.
Amy replied. “I’m not your mother last night!”
“Ha! Nice come back.” said Cindy trying not to bust out laughing. Some of the guards along with some of the citizens of Ponyville snickered at what the Amy said.
“Why you little! No one insults my mother and gets away with it.” Shining Armor was about to charge at Amy, until he was stopped by Luna’s wing.
“I don’t know who you are, but something tells me that you three are the cause of all this destruction correct?” asked Luna.
“To be fair it was mostly me, but I had a good reason for that.”
“Oh please do explain why you leveled half of Ponyville, and why we shouldn’t put you in jail?” Asked Celestia. Amy, Sandy, Cindy, and Sweetie Belle pointed at the dead body of Nightmare Moon along with a few of her soldiers.
“That bitch wanted to kill me along with everyone in this town. Not to mention that she attacked those 6 ponies over there.” said Amy pointing to the mane six. “I think that pretty much means that I just saved the town from a crazy pony and her army of crazy ponies right?”
“That is true, but please. Will you tell us your names then you three?”
“Amy Anderson the Third.”
“Sandy Tuesday.”
“And I’m Cindy Tuesday. Care to tell us who you are pony lady?”
“I am Princess Celestia, and this is my little sister Princess Luna. We are the rulers of Equestria.”
“Oh great royalty, this can’t end well.” Amy groan to herself.
“So you were the one that did that to her?” Celestia asked.
“Well with the help of Applejack yes, what of it?”
“Then you are under arrest for the destruction of Ponyville and killing Nightmare Moon.” Everypony gasped at what Luna said, well except for Amy and the guards.
“Oh really? What makes you think that you can arrest me then?”
“Like this.” Luna’s horn started to glow as magical chains sprung out of the ground, and attached themselves onto Amy.
“Now you will come with us without-.” before Luna could finish her sentence, a ball of fire was shot out from Amy’s mouth hitting the moon princess in the face This caused the chains to disappear as she reached for her claymore.
“Foul creature! You dare assault a princess of Equestria?!” Luna asked giving the blazing heart a death glare.
“Bitch, I just save your subject and killed one of your greatest enemy. And all I get as a reward is being sent to jail?”
“You broke Equestria law creature!” Luna yelled as she unsheathed her sword. “Not only that but you declared war upon Equestria and your race!”
“Well this escalated quickly.” said Sandy as her sister agreed.
“Hey! Would you rather have a town full of dead ponies then?” Cindy asked. “Amy’s a hero for saving your subject you ungrateful jerk!”
“But she took the lives of Nightmare Moon and her subjects. This proves that you all can’t be left to wonder around Equestria if you are willing to take a life without feeling sorry for it.”
“So you would prefer that she didn’t do anything and have Nightmare Moon kill all your subjects?”
“No! We would never let that happen!”
“Then why would you care for an enemy that is willing to kill you subject then your own?”
"It's not that it just that, in this kingdom all life is precious and-"
“That maybe true I get that, but you must also know that you'll have to take a life in order to protect another’s life right?" Luna went silent for a moment, she couldn't believe that she was being lectured upon by a creature that didn't know who she was or what she does. Luna took in a deep breath and sigh.
“So….I take it no matter what I say you won’t change your mind about this?”
“Nope.”
“Then you will face Equestian law!” Luna yelled as she charged at the blazing heart.
“Burn Bright! Sword of Red Lotus!” Amy said as launched herself at Luna with her sword in hand. As both swords collided, a powerful shockwave caused most of the royal guards back a bit. During the fight Sandy & Cindy ran over towards Celestia, while Sweetie Belle ran over to Twilight and her friends to get out of the cross fire of the two fighters.
(Celestia and Twins)
“So I take it you’re gonna fight us huh?” asked Sandy as her sister summoned a beam blade into their hands.
“Honestly I was only here to help my sister defeat Nightmare Moon, but seeing how your friend took care of her….in an unorthodox. I was gonna let this incident slide, well that is until my sister took action.”
“So you’re not going to attack us?”
“No.” Celestia said as she turned her attention towards the fight. “I’m just here to make sure you’re friend doesn’t kill my sister.”
“Oh I’m sure she won’t...maybe...let’s just see how this turns out.”
(Amy vs Luna)
Amy kicked Luna backwards as she fired a barrage of fireballs at the lunar princess. Only for the attack to be blocked as Luna summoned a magical barrier around herself. Luns countered with a magical beam causing Amy to dodge to dodge.
“Not bad, but try this on for size.” Amy snapped her fingers as a rose like flame symbol appeared on Luna’s chest. With a simple pull of her arm, Luna was being pulled forwards heading towards the blazing heart. The moment Luna was close to Amy, the blazing heart used the pummel of her claymore to slam Luna’s face into the dirt.
“You mongrel creature! You dare attack me with an underhanded tactic?!”
“This is a fight moon butt.” Amy said as she kicked Luna a few inches away from herself. “It would’ve been different if I was using an innocent bystander as a shield, but I’m not so don’t throw a hissy fit just because I’m beating you.”
“You haven’t beaten me yet peasant!” Luna’s horn began to glow as she summoned multiple blades to her side as she starts to throw them at Amy.
“Oh shit!” Amy dodged the first on coming blades as she moved to the left. "Ha! You missed me you old hag." She said as she flipped her the bird.
"Look behind you creature.” Luna smirked as she pointed behind Amy.
Amy looked behind herself as she saw the blades turn around and headed towards her. “Oh shit! Fire Wall!!!” She said as a column of fire appeared in front of her, causing some of the blades to disappeared, but some of them were able to cut through the fire and were able to hit or graze her.
“Nice try but unlike my sister, I am ready for battle!”
“Why can’t all royal people like them be weak and fragile?” Amy thought as she lifted her sword and set it on fire. “This might be harder than I thought.”
“What wrong Amy? I didn’t think you’d run out of spirit so soon into our fight.” Luna said as she summoned more swords.
“Better try a different tactic.” The flames on Amy’s sword died out as she placed her sword on her back. “Well if I’m able to use fire, then I should be able to to do something like this.” Amy twisted her waist slightly as she begun to spin herself around like a spinning top.
Luna looked on, not sure what Amy was planning but called her swords to her side and took one in each hand. “Now what are you up to?” Luna asked as her swords floated around her.
In a few seconds, Amy stopped spinning as she looked at Luna with determination in her eyes. “Question, have you ever felt flames that feel like they’re from the devil himself?”
“Only once…” said Luna as she looks at her sword. “But that was a long time ago, I wasn’t myself at the time.”
“Well then.” Amy walked a few inches forward as she revealed her foot. Only instead of looking normal, it looked like it was coated in molten magma. “Wanna feel it again only much hotter?”
“Nothing is hotter than the sun, but I will show you who your betters are!” Luna said as her blades move in for the kill.
“Fire Play!!!” Amy raised her hand as she fired a barrage of fireballs at the oncoming blades. As the fireball made contact with the blades, they exploded into dust. With the blades gone, Amy launched herself at Luna like a rocket and kicked her in the face with her molten covered foot “Diablo Jumble!”
“Idiot.” Luna said as she snapped her fingers. In doing so three hidden blades appeared from out of the ground, piercing Amy in her in her non vital areas.
“Oh shit cakes.” Amy said as she fell to the ground.
“You fool, did you really think I’d let you destroy all of them?”
“Was hoping for that actually.” The Blazing heart said as she tried to pull herself up, only for Luna to levitate her up close to herself.
“Give up, you did well so far but something tells me you had not trained in real combat. You can fight yes, you can use magic as well. But you have no training, you do not understand the difference between a battle and a brawl.”
“True, but there’s one thing that you do not know about.”
“You’re not going to say something stupid are you?”
“No, but you pretty much fell right into my trap Moon butt.”
“And this trap would be?”
“This.” Amy began to shake her head as red like flakes flew out into the air.
“What is this, are you trying to set yourself on fire?!”
“Oh I’ll be fine, you on the other.” Amy threw a fireball into the air as it caused a chain reaction to the flakes. “Might get burned.” In a split second, the area they were standing was engulfed in flames as Amy rocketed herself out of the explosion. “Ha! Suck it you bubble butted moon head!”
“RAAAAA!” Luna roared as she levitated Amy high into the air, and slammed her into the ground.. “Take this you fire starting Celestia rip off!” she yelled as she then repeatedly slammed Amy into the ground.
“So this is what being slammed into ground like in cartoons feel like.” Amy thought as her vision began to fade. “How the hell do they survive stuff like this?”
“Oh, are you dead? I hope not, I’m not done dealing with you yet!” yelled Luna as she threw Amy into a piece of earth sticking out of the ground. “Come on creature, you can do better than that.”
“Screw you, yeah second rated princess!”
“I would say something to that, but I think seeing you like this is better.”
“Asshole.” Amy said as she staggered back up to her feet. “This fight isn’t over yet.”
“Child, you have lost this battle. Give up now, and take your punishment like a mare.”
“You think I’m going to give up so I would be sent to jail?” Amy slammed her sword into the ground. “Why don’t you go fuck yourself. You rejected princess.”
“*Sigh* Pitty, I was hoping you would see reason if I knocked you around a bit, but it would seem you need to be given a much harsher beating.” Luna’s horn start to glow as a surge of magical energy formed around it. “Perhaps spending a day in the hospital will teach you the meaning of knowing your place.”
“Dammit, not good. Okay Amy thing of something before you’ll spend the next month or two in the hospital.”
“Come on Amy, you can win.” Cindy cheer along with her sister. “Show that uptight jerk who’s boss.”
“You gonna lose to this idiot? Seriously Amy, you took down a rival school gang with just a metal pipe. You can mop the floor with her.”
“Don’t think you two will get out this so easily.” Luna said as she glared at the humanoid cyborg. “When I’m done with her, you two are next on the list.” The lunar princess turned her attention back at the blazing heart as her horn started to spew out burst of magical energy. “You’re finished, creature!” Luna said as she fired a burst of energy at Amy.
“Oh this is going to hurt.” Amy closed her eyes as she waited for the attack to hit her. Only when she did, she hear a voice in head speak to her.
“Remove your ring, child of fire.”
“What?”
“Remove your ring, child of fire.” it repeated again. “You don’t want to die right? Then remove the ring around your arm. You might want to hurry or you’ll be in the hospital for who knows how long.”
For a moment, Amy thought about this. She always did wonder what happens when you remove that weird gold ring thing around Elesis’s arm, but what if it was some kind of trap? What if whoever it is that’s talking to her in her head was some kind of demon ready to take over her body….Then again spending your time in a full body cast in the hospital would be worse then being taken over by a demon. “Not like I have much of a choice.” Amy reached for the ring around her arm and removed. As she did, blue flames appeared around herself creating a dome of azure flames. The beam that was heading towards the blazing heart was deflected, hitting a random guard by accident.
“What the?”
Amy soon had an idea of what was going on. In Elsword, different characters could release their full power for a short amount of time. For Chung, it was his berserk mode. For Add, it was his Dynamo Points system. For Elesis, her power was released and so was her strength.
“Flames that burn through the darkest of nights.” Amy said as the flames around her began to die out. “Flames that never die from injustice.” Everyone’s eyes widen as they saw Amy’s new look as she slowly walked forwards. “You think something like that will stop me? Well then Moon butt.”
“Let’s see how well you hold up against me.”
“Well that’s new.” Cindy said as her sister agreed with her.
“So… You decided to show how strong you are…” Luna grinned, biting one of her lips. “In that case… you shouldn’t have any problems with me using my full strength now… Am I right?”
“Oh I’m so scared of the lazy princess and her full power.” Amy said sarcastically as she flipped Luna off. “Bring it thunder thighs.”
Luna sighed. “True… But let me warn you… Earlier when fighting you, I started at a small percentage of strength, slowly increasing over time. At this state, I’ve only used 20% of my actual power.” Holding both hands to her side, she let her magic fully release, forming twin blades that had curved edges that resemble the moon. “Now… This is going to get interesting.”
“You we’re only using 20%?”
“I was waiting until you would actually get serious.” With one step, Luna reappeared directly in front of Amy in the blink of an eye, swinging her weapons at Amy.
“Huh, I was only going at you with 35%.” Amy said as she used both her hands to stop the blades. “I really gotta stop playing around sometimes.”
“Now you’re learning.” Luna smirked, moving her leg to kick Amy while she was distracted. “Though, I have to hand it to you. I was able to pick up some new maneuvers from you.”
“Oh I doubt that.” Amy raised her right hand as sparks of fire appeared around Luna. “Pyrofly!!!” She said as the sparks gathered onto Luna, setting her body on fire. However, what caught Amy by surprise was that this Luna was just merely an afterimage. The real one was in her blind spot. Striking at Amy’s exposed left shoulder. “Figures as much.”
“Oh? You do nothing to dodge it, yet take the attack head on? Figured as much given your current position.”
“Oh no, I can dodge it if I wanted to.” Amy shook her head as azure fire flames spewed into the sky around them. “I just need you close to me so I can do this.” Amy’s mouth was lit on fire as she clamped her teeth together. This caused the flakes to exploded as Luna and the blazing heart was engulfed in the explosion.
Everypony just watched as the smoke settled down. But then, they saw Amy still standing… and Luna as well. Luna herself though, despite being a bit hurt, was not upset. She was… actually smiling.
“Impressive, I must admit. That was a bold move… But I believe we should call this a draw. Unlike myself, you can only stay in that form for a limited amount of time. Not to mention that you must be weak from your earlier bouts, am I wrong?”
“My wounds already healed up, not to mention that you pretty much we’re trying to send me to jail after what I did to that other version of you.” Amy said as she cracked her neck.
“Is that so… Your wounds may be healed up, but your stamina is another story… Also… what I said before… That was merely a test to see how you would react. I am thankful of you defeating her, but given the fact that we had no idea who you are, I decided to test you to see your reactions towards what I would say and do. And I must say… You are quite the character Amy.” Luna chuckled, dismissing her weapon this time around.
“Wait, are hitting on me or something? Because if you are I prefer to have dinner first before you try anything else.”
“No no. I was saying this. What I said before about arresting you… that was a lie. It was just to see how you would react. I wasn’t going to actually put you in prison for what you did. Hay, if I were in your position, I would do the exact same thing.”
“Oh okay.” Amy dismissed her claymore as her body changed back to normal. “....... wait, THIS WAS A FUCKING TEST!?!”
“Why of course. We had not encountered the likes of your species before, so I wanted to see how you would react in situations like these. You’re welcome to stay in Ponyville, Ms. Anderson. Keep it up with the Swordsmanship…” Turning to her sister, Luna smiled a little. “I believe we’re done here sister.”
“Not yet.” Celestia said as she pointed to Amy, who fell to the ground as blood started to pour out of her. “I think you might have overdid it…again.”
“Aye aye aye, sis. You really are a pain in the flank at times.” She groaned, summoning a few crystals that glowed bright red. “Here are some healing shards. I must retire so I can have enough strength to raise the moon tonight.”
“Come back, Moon butt~” Having saying that, Amy’s vision began to fade as she passed out.
“.....I’ll get the paramedics.”
"CURSES!" said Nightmare Moon as she threw the crystal ball at the wall. "I knew I shouldn't have let a clone to do the job for me!"
“Hm, so even in this universe she was able to take down someone like Nightmare Moon.” Eric said as he began to walk outside. “How annoying.”
“Where do you think you’re going Esper?”
“To collect more data on Amy, that and to gather more shards for a project I’m working on.”
“And what would that be?”
“Something that might be able to help with your taking over Equestria, and bringing eternal night.” Eric said as he opened up a portal and hopped in.
“When I get my hands on you Blazing Heart, I’ll finally have my revenge for what Nicko and your counterpart did to me 7 years ago.”
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