Is all Hope Lost?
Chapter 47: Loose Ends In the Way
Previous Chapter Next ChapterDaybreaker and Roseblood was a very bad thing to see, way worse than having just Nightmare Moon come and wreak havoc in Equestria. Her alone is one thing, but an evil version of Celestia with her? Oh, that is far worse than anything in the world.
"Stand aside, Tia, Luna." Discord said firmly, calm as the summer breeze. "Do not make me hurt you. But we will pursue and kill Roseblood either way."
"The name is Daybreaker, Discord." said she. "And we cannot let you do that. Nothing will stop Queen Roseblood from taking over the world."
"Not even a band of misfits and creatures like you all!" Nightmare Moon added. "You will have to deal with us first."
Flurry Heart was laughing evily while clopping her hooves. "That's right, losers!" Shining taunted. "You'll never make it past us alive!"
"Don't get your Hopes up, pretty boy.", said the Master of Chaos. "This is your final warning: move aside, or we will have to use brute force against you."
"And we promise," Zecora added. "We will fight you all if we have to. It will hurt."
"It will make your great great great grandchildren say 'ouch!'" Ember added, cracking her knuckles again.
An uproar of laughter came from the five enemies in front of the group of heroes.
"You can try and hurt us." said Said Cadence with a smug look.
"Yes, we'ed love to see you all try." Daybreaker added before letting out an evil chuckle.
"I guess we'll have to do this the hard way then!" Thorax shouted, transforming into a gigantic hydra.
"That's okay." said Nightmare Moon. "We prefer the hard way anyway!"
"We love the hard way." Daybreaker added with an evil tone of voice and an evil smile.
The two sides charged one another and Flurry Heart was trying to find a good enemy to fight against, but then Gilda walked in front of her to stop the baby allicorn.
"Alright, kid," Gilda began in a stern voice, "Stop fighting now, or I will give you a bad spanking."
Flurry didn't buy it and began laughing at her little threat. Gilda really didn't want to do this (maybe she did), but, she let out a scary, lion-like roar with a mix if screeching at the baby's face.
It was no surprise since griffons were half lion. Flurry then ran off into tears, bawling loudly and the parents noticed this and looked at Gilda in anger.
"That's a new low, even for a griffon like you!" Said Shining Armor.
"I'm a griffon. What can you expect?" She felt Shining punch her in the face a couple of times, and they were hard, painful blows inflicted on her, hell, she even got a black eye on the right side of her face.
Despite that, Gilda was standing strong and she was trying to slice at the prince with her razor-sharp claws. She even managed to land some heavy punches of her own, and clawed him at least two times.
All of a sudden, Gilda felt the left side of her body being struck by a beam of magic from princess Cadence, knocking her into a stone pillar.
"Keep your talons off my husband!" Said Cadence. She was helping Shining back up when she was knocked out with a charge by Spiral the Kudu.
If the greater kudu king wanted to, he would have gored the princess of love with her long, sharp, spiral horns. Alas, he knew he couldn't kill any of the brainwashed ponies, for they are victims of this, too.
Meanwhile, Imari was pushing against Celestia with his boundless, immense strength. The eland king was as tall as Celestia and he had greater strength in him than she would.
While she is Daybreaker, she and Celestia share the same body together and even she was suffering on the inside.
Imari gored her with her horns, causing her to fall and Yelp in pain. "Well-played, Imari." Celestia panted. "Well-played, but can you dodge this?"
A light of yellow magic came on top of her horn and create a small explosion of magic intending to blast Imari out of the castle, falling to his death.
"Hahahahaha! I did it!" She cheered to herself, not seeing Imari in sight. Little did she know that her little spell didn't work and Imari charged at her in full speed, even if eland are supposed to be the slowest antelope.
His brute strength made up for his slow running, along with his horns. To Celestia, it was like a boulder hit run her over in a rock slide, and it made her fall over, looking unconscious from the impact of the blow.
"Sister!" Nightmare Moon shouted. She immediately became angry and did a whistle from her mouth, and a horde of demons that Roseblood had under her command appeared in magical bubbles. "All of you!", she shouted, "Destroy those meddlesome heroes!"
All these demons began yelling and charged at Zecora, Discord, Conok, and their allies.
Thorax roared in fury, along with his other three heads and bit any one of these demons that came in contact with him.
Luna growled and charged at Thorax in full gallop. The changeling king (while in Hydra form), was swiping his arms and claws at her to keep her from reaching him. However, she was quick and she used the magic from her horn to teleport herself left and right.
Luna flew up, and used her wings for support so she can look at him in the eyes. Thorax continued to swipe his claws again and tried to subdue her in a non-lethal way such as using fire breath, which was a trait that a many-headed hydra would have, and it had little to no avail on her.
Blasting a large wave of magic to him, Nightmare Moon was laughing maniacally as she was blasting at him, but Thorax was stronger than he is timid and a little bit of a pushover, and he transformed into a falcon, and dived onto Luna's head like a missile or harbinger.
Small streaks of blood were coming down the peck marks on her head and neck. Thorax was pecking his beak at her hard like needles or arrows being released from bows in an archery match. Moments after, the changeling king turned into his normal self and began zapping at Luna with his own magic and they were rolling around in the floor in some sort of cat fight.
Eventually. When it came to physical strength, Thorax had the upper hoof in that, and he kicked Nightmare Moon, knocking her to a li e of pillars.
"Gah. That was close." He muttered to himself.
"Thorax!" Roared a voice in pure hatred and anger. Turning over to the side to see who said his own name, Thorax saw, on his right, Chrysalis.
He readied himself for another fight with her, and he immediately charged at her in full-speed like a fast, runaway coach.
"I will make sure you die a painful death, you worthless brat!"
The former queen of the Changelings punched him on the left side of his face, but Thorax returned the favor by giving her an uppercut kick with his left hind-leg.
It was really painful against Chrysalis, and sue even lost a fang from the impact of the punch. Green blood was mildly leaking out of her mouth and she was more angry than ever.
She then charged at him again and tried gouging his eyes out, and Chrysalis was locking her horn with Thorax', growling at one another in hatred.
One could say that this is literally a grudge match. A big question was who would prevail in this kind of fight? It could be Thorax, who has greater physical strength and he knows her well, or Chrysalis, who is technically older than him and way more experienced in the field.
One thing for certain, if one wins, then the loser between this pair would suffer a very painful outcome.
Cadence was trying so hard to take down Conok, the mighty Zebrican minotaur with her own magic. Even though Conok didn't possess any magic, he was standing strong and being as tough as he can.
"You will have to do better than that, your majesty." He said.
A bunch of demons, diamond dogs, and Klugetownians were charging at him. One would be scared of a charging army, especially being outnumbered one-hundred to one.
When it came to the great Conok himself, the warrior gave a bold smile. "Come try and kill me." He said. "I beg you."
He readied his sword and the horde of monsters that had him in their sights all came at him with a loud, unnerving battle cry.
Conok sliced and diced at his own opponents like cutting fruits or vegetable with a kitchen knife or two.
Yes, many diamond dogs, Klugetownians, demons, and other monsters on Roseblood's side were being sliced and ripped apart from Conok without ease
"Keep bringing in the enemies!" He shouted in a courageous tone of voice. "I can keep this up all day!"
Savimbi and Zecora were fighting side by side against their opponents and they were bucking any enemy that tried to jump in on both the two zebras.
"You fight rather well, Zecora." Said king Savimbi before slamming the right side of his body to a cat Klugetownian.
"Thank you. Although, fighting is something I normally don't do." she admitted.
Over the course of time, there was a barge in the front door and stormed the whole foyer, and it was a lot of creatures on the side against Roseblood.
"Guys! We're here!" Said Pharynx. The non-brainwashed ponies stormed in as well to fight the forces of darkness.
"How goes it out there?" Asked Ember
"We have a few more casualties." Novo answered. "Still, we are keeping a number of enemies at bay."
"Most of the losses were ponies," Sandbar admitted. "I wish we could have saved them all."
"They fought well." Said Discord. "You gave all fought well."
"Help us against these monsters so we can find Spike and free him from Roseblood." Zecora ordered. "We will need all the help we can get against them."
Daybreaker finally awoken from being unconscious and saw Imari goring a Klugetowner with his horns that looked like a mole or a rat, and the Klugetownian fell down to the floor with a loud thud.
"Grr. I'm not through with you yet, eland!" She growled. Flying at him in full-speed, she tackled Imari, rolling around on the floor with him in the same kind of fight as Thorax and Luna were in a few minutes before. Despite how magically powerful she was, she was getting a few punches and kicks to the sides of her torso, and a few blows in her face
"Never underestimate an eland!" said the king before being punched by Celestia in the stomach three times. He dodged the fourth punch by poking her with his sharp horns. "You should have heed my words, Celestia. You should pay attention to what I am throwing at your sister, Luna."
"That name no longer has any meaning for me!" shouted Daybreaker
"Just as the name: 'Luna' no longer has any meaning for ME!" Nightmare Moon said.
"Call me Daybreaker!"
"And I: Nightmare Moon!"
"You cannot run away from the truth, old friends!" said Novo. "This is what you both really are on the inside."
"Nonsense, fish face!" said Celestia. "This is the real us. We are the supreme beings of this world and we will reach our highest peak with our queen Roseblood. If you and your kind just surrender in the first place, we wouldn't kill you right now."
"No!" Novo said. "We may have been cowardly when the Storm King was around, but we are not going to make the same mistake again." She charged in on Luna and flapped her wings, she was hovering and rammed herself into the princess of the night and slammed her into a wall.
Nightmare Moon retaliated and flew into her to the opposite wall. Despite how bad it hurt, queen Novo kicked Luna with her hind-legs in the chin. Some blood was coming out of Luna’s lips from a cut, and Novo swept her legs with her bird-like wings.
“Ow.” She groaned, she was feeling so dizzy that she had had fresh difficulty in trying to stand her ground and keep her balance.
“Bravo, Queen Novo.” Said Discord. “Now, to subdue this one.” Then he snapped his finger and created a very powerful bubble that was more powerful than the bubbles that Discord had created to keep everyone in Ponyville from escaping.
Nightmare Moon tried to hard to zap it with her magic and even rammed it a few times so it would break like a barrier of glass. Alas, her efforts were fruitless, and she was trapped in there.
“Oh, sister.” Daybreaker sighed in disapproval. “What am I going to do with you?”
“Don’t just stand there, sister!” Said Nightmare Moon. “help me!”
“Coming, Luna.” Just when Celestia was about to help her, Imari And Conok. Rammed her to the ground like a train in full motion.
“Discord, now!” The eland king ordered the master of chaos. Just like that, with another snap of his finger, a magical bubble that looked similar to where Luna is trapped in, But a little bigger. Now, Daybreaker was trapped and subdued as well, and there were only three more of these royal brainwashed ponies to go.
Shining Armor charged in anger, and Flurry Heart used her horn as her little machine gun or mini gun, but instead of bullets, it was beams of magic. “Come on, sweetie.” Said Shining Armor. “Let’s give these traitors what for!” He was holding Flurry in his front arms and used her as a weapon while he was using magic from his own horn.
Flurry Heart was cackling and laughing evilly as she was blasting as much of her opponents and many of them Fell to the ground from the impact. Mostly ponies, zebras, and some animals, but most of these magic beams were non-fatal and it just stun them out cold.
A new idea came into Thorax’ head. He transformed into a wolf of a green color and began howling in a harmonious melody into th castle ceiling. The howling song was so beautiful and lovely that it made Flurry stop attacking and slowly began to feel sleepy.
“What? Uh-oh.” Cadence realized what was going on. “Music is her number one weakness. Shining, do something!”
“Too late.” Shining sang uncomfortably. “She’s already asleep.” They both looked at their little foal and she certainly was asleep, snoring so soundly and peacefully in her slumber. “Now what are we going to do?”
“Can we have a time out?” Asked Cadence.
“Eh, sure, why not.” Said Grandpa Gruff.
In this unexpected time out, the parents put their baby in her little cradle so she can sleep without any noise or disturbances, they immediately came back to the fight, and it continued. Shining Armor tried punching Conok the Minotaur many times in the stomach repeatedly like a boxer, but the punches had little to no effect at all.
To Conok, it was feeling a like a pillow was trying to hit him in that abdomen repeatedly, and it didn’t even hurt, so he just gave the prince a knee kick in the stomach and slammed his body down by hitting his spine with his right elbow.
Cadence was left and she was going all out with her magic and powers. She unleashed hell-fury and endless beams of magic, but alas, Ember flew up to her and knocked her in the back of the head with an elbow jab.
Now they were all down for the count and Roseblood was left, and the final battle will began in a moment. Discord locked Cadence, Shining Armor, And Flurry Heart (even in another room), inside a magical bubble to keep them locked tight until this is all over.
Since all of these royal brainwashed ponies have been subdued and put out of the way, it will be far easier to stop Roseblood from spreading her dark magic further into the earth.
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