Sombra's Reign
Chapter 3: Dying Flame
Previous Chapter"So what’s the next course of action?" I asked
"Wind Breaker will take over this army for me and will be heading south east to Baltimare. I will be meeting up with my sister Luna to discuss farther plans" Celestia replied
"Might I ask why are we heading to Baltimare?"
"Some runaway slaves of Sombra has told us that he is planning to attack Baltimare but we haven't been able to find out when the attack is. Your one of his generals...shouldn't you know this?"
"Well I have been trapped in the dungeons for two months so I wasn't provided with any information or plans."
"That is true...guess we should start packing up the camp." Celestia finishes
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After several days, Thunder and Wind Breaker healed and we got the military camp packed up. We soon got moving south east.
I heard some Celestial guards in awe. I approached to see what they were looking at and soon my eyes widened and jaw fell open.
"So, this is what Neighagra Falls looks like." one of the guards said "Wow."
We started crossing a bridge which at the beginning there was a sign titled Rainbow Bridge with a picture of a cloud with a lightning bolt made up of the colors blue, yellow, and red coming from it and under the picture it read (This memorial is to honor Rainbow Dash for assisting in the defeat of Nightmare Moon and Discord.)
Soon after we crossed we approached a wall of trees and a path piercing through the thick forest. The path had smaller plants jetting in the way and you would not be able to see ten feet farther into the forest
As we entered, the unicorns began pulling the obtruding plants to the side and soon illuminated their horns due to the dark abyss.
There was the occasional rattle of a solders armor when they jumped because of a shadow, some are saying that the shadows are actually moving.
I even start seeing them move and hearing shuffles in the bushes. “seems like the animals are being frightened by us” Wind Breaker said.
“Or everyponies going crazy” Thunder added
“Or something much worse” I said as we entered a burnt part of the forest
“Like what?” Thunder said but something caught my eye, some more movement but as a unicorn passed the dark location was illuminated and I very clearly saw at least three of Sombra’s solders.
I immediately yelled “AMBUSH!” as they realized that I saw them and jumped out, then a cascade of Sombra’s solders jumped out. 15, 20, 60, an entire army revealed themselves.
Most of them were unicorns and Pegasi. The unicorns most likely used some sound dampening spell on their hooves in order to have an entire army follow us for that long.
Soon we were completely surrounded and many of the unicorns were casting spells while the pegisi were preventing the Solar Guards pegasi from taking off. Fireballs filled the air and many shields went up, blocking the fireballs.
The Solar Guards and Sombra’s Empire intertwined in battle. I heard Wind Breaker yell out some orders “FOCUS ATTACK THE SOLDERS DIRECTLY AHEAD, HOLD OFF THE SOLDERS ON THE SIDES”
Not too long after he yelled those orders a massive fireball made it through the shields killing countless Solar Guards. But the large hole in the forces were filled with solders towards the center of the circle.
After a while in battle a large hole was made in Sombra’s forces in which we were able to get out of the trap. Not too long after, the battle continued. We kept getting pushed back by the constant barrage of fireballs and pegisi that swooped down.
Eventually we found ourselves passing a sign that said “Welcome to Fillydelphia.” But we had the advantage now that we were out in the open, causing Sombra’s army to fully emerge from the forest. In the mix of solders I saw one that looked familiar, it was Lavan. I saw that Wind Breaker had a very worried look on his face.
“What’s wrong Windy?” asked thunder
“You remember Lavan from your trial?”
“Yeah.” replied Thunder
“Well, that’s him over there and he’s one of Sombra’s most ruthless killers and he does not take prisoners.” Wind Breaker then yelled some orders “FALL BACK AND TAKE COVER IN THE BUILDINGS.”
The small amount of solders left quickly took action, rounding the street loosing Lavan’s vision then hid within the surrounding. Not too long after, Lavan rounded the corner with several other ponies and began walking down the street
“Come out come out where ever you are” Lavan called out with a maniacal grin on his face “you can’t hide forever.”
His horn began glowing and shot out a massive blaze of fire engulfing a building while the other ones shot fireballs at two others causing the hidden solders to run out of the burning structure in which Lavan redirected the flame coming out of his horn toward the solders
As quickly as I could, I created a shield around the solders blocking them from the flames
“Who Did That!” Lavan yelled. He then used another spell “There you are.” he said as he looked directly at me
His horn began glowing as he started casting another spell “GET OUT OF THERE” I heard Wind yell from a nearby building as a large sphere grew above Lavan’s horn and not too long after it shot out but before it reached us I teleported everypony in the structure outside in the street
Immediately after there was a massive explosion that destroyed all the surrounding buildings. One of the solders Created a shield around everypony as the flames engulfed everything. As it cleared up the solders next to Lavan began creating more fireballs.
They began the barrage. During the countless impacts, I could see that the solder was having difficulty keeping the shield up so I started funneling my magical energy to him, strengthening the shield but then I could not hold up the shield that was protecting the other solders that escaped the burning building so I had to drop it and teleport them away. But that was the last straw, it strained my magic too much and it fried out, in which unicorns can’t use their magic for a time and if they strain it way too much then they can completely lose their magic forever.
Suddenly, the barrage stopped and when the smoke cleared away we looked skyward seeing a swarm of pegasi with one grey Pegasus leading the swarm, Wind Breaker. They turned back and made another swoop down quickly grabbing all of the solders around Lavan. The one who tried to grab Lavan was quickly incinerated. A bit later, I could see small dots plummeting to the ground.
On the next dive, Lavan readied a spell and when Wind Breaker and the others grew near Lavan threw a massive tower of fire causing half of the pegasi to plummet to the ground in a ball of fire.
“Now, where were we? Oh, that’s right” Lavan said as he turned back to us and quickly shot another fireball at us. My magic came back and I immediately made a deflecting shield that makes spells go a different direction. The fireball bounced off and struck a sky scrapper farther in the city igniting the base of it.
The solder next to me was able to put up the shield again before Lavan fired another shot. During a few minutes of constant fire Lavan was heating up the ground under us to turn it to lava but we caught on before we were burned alive. We teleported farther away but the pony who made the shield burned out so I put up another shield.
One of the solders stated that the sky scrapper was about to fall and we could probably get away when the dust and ash fills the air. I looked at it and made a different plan. “can you take over the shield” I asked. one of the solders quickly took over. I moved to the side to focus. I reached my magic far out, touching the sky scrapper. Encompassing the support beams and with a hard pull, ripping out the supports causing the building to topple over but before it struck the ground I used all my magic to lift the building and two of the solders saw what I was doing and funneled their magic to me. I let it drift in the air. When it got above Lavan I released the structure.
In a massive explosion of rubble and debris, Lavan’s flame went out.