Rise Of The Nightmare
Chapter 29: Bow Of Love
Previous Chapter Next ChapterNocturne slowly opened his eyes and said.
"Ouch that hurt....why am i still alive?!"
The others then noticed that he woke up. They gathered around him and they started talking.
"So....you are gonna kill me or what?"
"It was never our intention to kill you brother." The Human Celestia said.
"Yes, but it doesn't mean that we won't take some extreme measuresto stop you from killing us." The Human Luna said.
"Well....it does explain as to why i am in chains.....so...is there a reason why you need me as a hostage?"
"We only need your help in making that.....plane of yours." Celestia said.
"What? This thing over there? I am sorry but no! I am not gonna waste such a work of art on the likes of you!"
Luna then pulled out her Scythe and said.
"Well....i am sure that there is a way to make you cooperate."
"Wait! We never said we were going to hurt him! He doesn't deserve this." The Human Celestia said.
But Nocturne just laughed and said.
"You think you scare me? HA! Right now it is you who should be scared! Cause when i break these chains i am gonna cut you all in half! But if you do intend to kill me then by all means!"
He then exposed his neck and said.
"Slice my neck open! Make sure that it is going to be a deep cut so that i may die! Oh and also you will leave twenty children without a father! Let's see how you will feel about that!"
Luna then lowered her Scythe and said.
"No...i won't kill you, even if it's so tempting it is not my deceison to make nor do i want to leave your kids without a father.....i know how that feels and i do not wish for your kids to feel the same."
"Luna...." Celestia started.
"It's ok sister....i can handle myself......in fact. I think i know how to get the information i need from you."
"What are you gonna do to him?" The Human Celestia asked.
"Don't worry, i won't hurt him, i promise you."
She then closed her eyes and extended her hand forward. When that happened, golden strings came out from the tips of her fingers and were attached to his forehead. But when the strings touched his forehead they were pulled back and Luna gasped out.
"Princess Luna you alright?" Twilight asked.
"It was nothing....it's jus that....it's so dark in there."
"Ha! Was that all? Can't you handle all the things that i have done?"
"You think that everyone can just commit such crimes and live with them?" Luna asked.
"Yes.....me and.....the other me? That sounded weird....anyway. Now will you keep looking at my memories your pervert?"
"Pervert?" Twilight asked.
"Yes.....i mean it's not nice to see how babies are made from a guys point of you don't you think? Or should i say a stallion? So that you may relate? If you ever had such.....interactions...."
"Quit it!" The Human Luna said.
"Calm down sis! I haven't done anything wrong! I am just defending myself!"
"Let's just get this over with." Luna said.
"Yes! Come on! Do it pussy! There is no way that you can handle such darkness again!"
"Shut up! We have had enough of you! First, you treated us like garbage when we came here! Second! You sided with my....husband and you also want to kill us! You have no right to speak! Let's just get it over with and get out of here!" Cadence said.
She then extended her hand again and the golden strings came out from the tips of her fingers and attached themselves to his forehead again.
For a brief moment Luna could see everything. What he had done and what he knew. Somewhere however deep inside his mind she could she how the plane supposed to look like and work, she knew exactly what the plane needed to work.
The strings dettached from his forehead and Luna said.
"I.....i know what we need....just....give me a second."
"Luna you alright?" Celestia asked.
"I am fine but....his mind is...."
"Fucked?" He completed.
"I was gonna say twisted....but that word can work....especially if it's you."
"Whatever!" He said and he looked away.
"Hey wait a second....where's my gun?"
"We hid it away so that you may not grab it....cause if you do well.....you know." The Human Luna said.
"Just....don't break it please....it's a collectable!"
"You may have it after we finish fixing that plane of yours, but even so...." Celestia said.
"Let's just get going, we have wasted enough time already." The Human Luna said.
Then from the strairs a zombie came. It's legs were cut off and it was crawling on it's way to them.
"Ewww....." Cadence said.
"Oh and that smell!" Twilight said.
"I will put it down don't worry." Celestia said and pulled out her sword.
She then lifted her sword up in the air and plunged it down on the zombie's skull causing it to die.
Then more demonic screams were heard and more Nightmares came from the school yard.
"What just happened!" The Human Celestia asked.
"You idiots!" Nocturne shouted.
"We did that?" Twilight asked.
"Of course you did! Don't you know the mechanics?"
"What mechanics? What are you talking about?!" Cadence asked.
"Allow me to explain....you see. Every wave of creatures coming towards you has a certain amount of....well creatures. If they are all defeated then a new wave starts with more and stronger enemies. I let one live so that the new wave may not start but you.....well."
"Then we have little time! Follow me i know where to get the items we need!" Luna said.
And they all run down the stairs.
"Hey! WAIT! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!" Nocturne shouted.
As they got down more monsters appeared all of them charging at them from different directions.
"Sister...i think i can....." Luna started.
Luna then started feeling strange. An aura of Blue Magic covered her up and from that veil of magic Luna reappeared but this time.
"Luna! I can't believe what i am seeing!" Celestia said.
"Wow...." The others said.
Luna then stood up from the ground and said.
"What! What is it? I feel like....the old me again! Back in our world."
"That's because......that's because you have your horns and wings right now!" Twilight said.
Luna then started looking at herself, soon noticing the horn on her forehead and the wings on her back.
Luna smiled and said.
"Now the fun has been doubled!"
She then charged into the fray cutting down any Nightmare in any shape or form down, drowing her Scythe into her enemies' blood. She could also use magic. And just like the Pony world she only had to focus and her horn would glow.
She lifted a tentacled monster that was coming towards her and threw it out of the window and then cutting down a wall and causing it to fall on the hallway crushing down every Nightmare.
When it was done, her face and blade were both covered in blood. Some of it fell on her lips but she cleaned it with her finger and said.
"Disgusting......"
"Not to ruin the moment but more are coming!" The Human Celestia said.
Luna the turned around to face the creatures that were coming. She charged her Scythe and with a single swing, Warriors
made out of Lunar essence appeared. They were armed with swords and shields and stood as a wall, blocking the Nightmares from advancing.
"That will hold them! Now. GET THE PARTS!" Luna shouted.
They started running through out the whole building, in search for the parts they needed. Some Nightmares got in the way but with Luna's Awakened Power they were no match. Even Twilight was helping along with Celestia with their own swords, but in the end it was Luna who was doing most of the work. As for the human counterparts, they were carrying the parts for the plane. A small engine, rigging, a control valve and two tanks, though these objects were heavy, their will to survive made them ignore the weight and move on.
"Ok! That's all we need." Luna said.
"Then we better get back on the plane and let's hope that our brother hasn't been....eaten."
"Luna that was cruel!" The Human Celestia said.
"Fine....let's just go!"
But as they were making their way back to the roof tops, Shining armor appeared in front of the stairs and blocked their path. He then lifted up his sword and said.
"Did you forget about me?"
Luna then stepped forward and said.
"Everyone get upstairs, i will handle this!"
"No! You can't! You can't kill him!" Cadence started.
"Princess please! He is under Nocturne's influence! He doesn't deserve to die!"
"FOOLS! I AM NOT UNDER HIS INFLUENCE! I DIED AND HE BROUGHT ME BACK! THE SHINING ARMOR THAT YOU KNEW IS NO MORE!" He shouted.
Cadence then said while crying.
"No....that's not true.....I know you are still there! The Shining armor i knew loved his wife and his sister to the very end and he would never hurt anypony! If it really is not you, then we would be dead by now!"
"SILENCE!"
Cadence gasped and back away.
"I HAVE A JOB TO DO! AND NO ONE WILL STOP ME!"
"I will!" Celestai said and stepped forward.
"What?!" Luna started.
"Luna....get on the roof tops and prepare the plane. Only you know how to fix it!"
"No! I am not letting you fight him alone! He will kill you!"
"No...he won't....Cadence is right. The Shining armor i remember was a noble stallion! He would always sacrifice himself to make sure that Equestria was safe! That we! Were safe and now....it is my duty to do the same."
"No Celestia! I forbid it!" Luna said.
"I am sorry sister....there is no other way. Make the plane and escape if i don't return!"
"I am not leaving you!"
"YES YOU ARE! NOW GET OUT OF HERE!" She said and then slapped her sister.
"IF WE ALL DIE HERE THEN NOTHING WILL MATTER ANYMORE! YOU UNDERSTAND ME!?"
Celestia said while holding Luna by her shoulders. Luna looked in terror in her sister's eyes and without any choice she said.
"Ok....ok...."
And she along with the counter parts left.
Cadence and Twilight who were still by Celestia said.
"Princess....i am counting on you." Twilight said.
"Me too auntie.....please....come back to us...."
"I will, now go!"
And the two left.
The two Sword users looked at each other intensly and waited for one of them to make a move. Then out of a sudden Shining armor run towards Celestia so fast that her mind couldn't comprehend what just happened.
Shining armor punched her right in the nose with his spiked fist causing her to back away with both her hands covering her nose in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
"You are weak!"
He then prepared his sword for another swing but he cut her only on her cheek a little due to the fact that she slightly dodged that attack.
Celestia then prepared for a counter attack but it was blocked and the two were looking at eachother while their blades were clashing.
"It's no use Princess! I am stronger than you!"
"No....i....won't let you win!"
"But i have already won! And you know why? Cause even if they fix the plane...they won't leave without you! You see? You are very important to them!"
".....i..."
He then pulled and his sword was lit on fire causing Celestia to back out shocked.
In her panic she swinged her sword as fast as she could hopping to at least hit him. But instead Shining armor punched her blade out of the way causing it to get dropped from her hands. His hand then turned into a claw, he grabbed her by her head and started slamming her on the wall. With every slamm Celestia felt herself growing weaker and weaker as her skull was being smashed into the cold concrete. He then threw her down and said.
"I told you i was better than you! But if you had joined Nocturne from the first place, this would have never happened!"
He then lifted up his sword and prepared for the final blow.
However when he observed her face more closely he could see the terror in her eyes. All the wounds, her dirty hair all the cuts....everything.
She then coughed blood and let out a heavy breath.
Shining armor felt uneasy for a moment. His other self fighting to stop himself from killing her, but in the end the Darkness prevailed.
He lifted up his sword and lunged his blade forward.
"NOOOO WAIT!"
Cadence said as she got in the way. As result it was she who suffered the attack.
"CADENCE! NO!"
"Cadence....." Celestia said with her low voice.
Shining armor put her down while holding her hand.
"No....CADENCE!!!"
"Shining....my love....."
"Don't worry Cadence! I....will find a way to save you!"
"No...you can't..."
"You are wrong! I can get Nocturne to save you! To turn you into a Knight Terror! You can live again!"
"No one can save me now Shining....not even Nocturne....just you."
"What...?"
"Shining armor......remember the day when you asked me to marry you?"
"How....how could i forget...? How could i forget the day i asked the mare that i loved to marry me?" He said as tears run through his dark cheeks.
She smiled and said.
"That....was the happiest day of my life....and then...."
"And then you gave me another gift.....Flurry Heart....."
"Yes.....remember how you had freaked out when i was giving birth?"
"I...i truly thought that you were going to die!"
"Yes.....i too thought that i was going to die....but now...here i am....in your.....hands."
"Cadence....i....i never wanted this! I wanted to save you! Please forgive me!"
He said and then placed his head on her chest.
"I AM SORRY!" And he bursted into tears.
"Sshh....don't cry.....our.....love is stronger than you think.....and it is the only thing that can save me now....."
She then let out a final gasp and she died right there in his hands.
"Cadence.....Cadence.....Noo...Please don't leave me....not like this........CADENCE!!! NO!! PLEASE! COME BACK! I AM SORRY! PLEASE! RETURN TO ME! I DONT WANT TO LOSE YOU! CADENCE!!!"
He then let out a scream and started punching himself to the point where his jaw flew from his head. But even still the pain of losing the one he loved was greater than any physical damage.
"CADENCE!!!!!"
Celestia observed the whole scene, unable to do anything due to her injuries. She too wanted to cry, to scream but she couldn't....the damages were far too great.
It was then that Shining armor noticed a small glowing string wrapped in her hand.
"Is this what i think it is?" He said.
He then extended his hand to pick it up and when he did something amazing happened.
A golden Light surrounded Cadence, lifting her up into the air and right before their eyes her outfite changed. It was replaced by a golden armor with a beutiful Golden Armor, a long pink transparent veil on her hips and....a bow.
A long beutiful bow made out of gold and crystal with pink arrows.
Cadence opened her eyes, she looked across the room and then to her heavily injured aunt.
She then placed her hand gently on Celestia's forehead. When she did that, Celestia felt a warm feeling, the feeling of Love. Love for everyone, for those that Cadence carryed about, her Love for her family and most importantly....her love for Shining armor and Flurry Heart. These feelings healed Celestia instantly and she was back on her feet again.
"Cadence how did you..."
"No need to worry auntie....i feel....better now."
Shining armor fell on his kneens, speechless he stood there looking at his wife.
He could not speak though, he had no jaw. He had broken it in his rage but that didn't stop him. He quickly crawled to her and hugged her legs, holding her tight and he started crying.
"My love? What have you become?" She said as she stroked his hair.
She then picked up his fallen jaw, she leaned down and placed it where it belonged. And with only a single touch the jaw was reattached to Shining armor's skull.
However from the shores of the city there was Nocturne. Looking over to the island from far away. He knew that Shining armor betrayed him and he said.
"Very well then. You chose Love over saving Creation. This will be your undoing!"
He then lifted his hand up in the air. Soon, the sky above started changing, the beutiful blue sky had now turned dark with purple thunderstorms raging over the city, setting buildings on fire and obliterating those that were unlucky enough to get hit by them. It was chaos. But he didn't stop there, his then started glowing blue and the see in front of him had bowed to his will.
"BY THE POWER OF THE OLD GODS! Iä ! Iä ! Cthulhu fhtagn ! Iä ! Iä ! Cthulhu fhtagn ! Iä ! Iä ! Cthulhu fhtagn ! IA ! IA ! CTHULHU FHTAGN !"
As he chanted the Shadow Words the ground underneath him started craking and his voice was booming all across the city. From beneath the Seas however a beast appeared, it's skin was dark purple with tentacles and multiple mouths of all sizes across it's body and it got under the School Island. It then opened it's giant mouth and started slowly pulling down the whole Island into it's mouth.
From inside the building.
Shining armor was still shocked at the sight of his wife coming back from the dead.
She just smiled at him and said.
"My love....don't be sad. I promise you that i will fix things...but with my way."
She then aimed her bow at him and shot him right through the neck.
Instead of feeling any pain or bleeding at all, Shining armor felt the dark energies that had reconstructed him into a Knight Terror fade away. Shining armor was slowly changing back to his normal self again, but without any real tissue or flesh to sustain him when the Dark Energies had disappeared, so did he.
"Rest in peace my Love.....I will never forget you."
"Cadence....what you did was....very brave."
"I know....it was the least i could. Now let's go back to the others i am sure they are worried sick."
It was then that they felt a tremor and the whole building slowly started collapsing.
"What is going on?" Celestia asked.
"We better get up to the roof and see for ourselves!" Cadence said.
And they both run up only to see giant purple tentacles coming out from the sea and hiting the building in an attempt to make it collapse.
Twilight then noticed Cadence and Celestia.
"Princess Celestia! Cadence.....Cadence? What has..."
"No time to explaine Twilight! It seems that we have bigger problems on our....haha hands."
"But....what is that thing!" Luna asked.
"Oh! You are finaly back! Good, the plane is fixed and we are ready to go!" The Human Celestia said.
"Yes! Come on we don't have any more time!" The Human Luna said as she got on top of the small plane.
"Hey! And what about me?" The Human Nocturne asked.
And without any hestitation Cadence said.
"You are coming with us!"
"Wow.....Cadence what has happened to you? I thought you were gonna let him stay here."
"No Twilight, no one deserves such fate. Even him, now untie him!"
"Stay back i got this." Luna said.
She then pulled out her Scythe and cut the chains that her holding down his hands.
"YOU CRAZY BITCH YOU ALMOST CUT MY HANDS OFF!"
"Be thank full brother!" The Human Celestia said.
"But i!"
"No excuses! Now let's get going!" The Human Luna said.
Then from the ground a tentacle appeared grabbing The Human Celestia and then squized her to the point where she was mutilated.
"CELESTIA!" The Human Luna and Nocturne shouted.
The Human Nocturne then let out a demonic scream, shocking the others around him.
"I'LL KILL YOU! YOU UNDERSTAND ME! I WILL KILL YOU YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
Before he could say anything else, another tentacle came out from the sea and it reached for The Human Luna. It grabbed her head and pulled her down into the sea where she met her end.
"NOOO! LUNA!"
The Human Nocturne let out antother demonic scream but this time something strange happened. His eyes started glowing Blue and it looked like if something was trying to burst out of his back. He started screaming and crying out in pain.
Cadence then without fear grabbed him by his shoulder and pulled him into the plane.
"You know how to fly this thing?!" Cadence asked.
"I go the instructions from his mind but controling it will be much difficult!" Luna said.
She then started up the engines and the small plane surprisingly took flight.
Once they were away from the Island they all started cheering and laughing.
"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS! WE MADE IT!" Luna said.
"HAHAH YES! YES WE DID!" Twilight replied.
Celestia however then stopped laughing and said.
"But....at the cost of two more innocent lives....."
The others dropped their smiles and lowerd their heads.
"You....did this to me!" They heard the Human Nocturne saying.
They then turned to face him, only to see him deformed.
Most of his skin got dark, his eyes were glowing blue and his outfit was all torn appart leaving him naked without his genitals showing.
"I WILL KILL YOU ALL FOR THIS!"
His right hand then turned into a claw and prepared an attack.
Cadence however stood up quickly and blocked his attack with her bow.
"I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU I'LL KILL YOU!"
"No...i won't let you! We have gotten this far! I won't back down now! Even if it means fighting you!"
"YOU DARE TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO MY SISTERS?!"
"It was Nocturne! Blame it on him for getting your sisters killed."
"NOOO.....HE....HE CARES ABOUT MY FAMILY!"
"If he did care then please tell me! Why didn't he use his magic to teleport them away from this place? I mea he did summon a sea monster to swallow us whole! So tell me why didn't he do it? Do you want me to tell you? IT'S BECAUSE HE NEVER CARRED ABOUT YOU! NOR YOUR FAMILY!"
The Human Nocturne screamed even louder this time and shouted.
"YOU BITCH!!!"
He then prepared another attack but before he could execute it, Celestia got up and swinged her sword across his neck. In result he was decapitated and his body fell into the ocean.
There was a moment of silence. Nobody expected Celestia to do such a thing.
She then sat down and said.
"I....i just....killed him...."
"Princess..." Twilight started.
"No Twilight......that was....the most terrible thing i have done.....killing a man....a manipulated man....he....he had a family! Twenty kids! Oh my Gods! He just! He......damm it."
And she slowly started crying.
"At least....we are out of that crazy Island...." Luna said.
"I....i suppose." Twilight said.
Cadence then looked over to the distant and saw the city.
"Everyone....look!"
She then pointed her finger towards the city and what they saw made them all gasp out in terror.
The city was being destroyed by a Giant Dark Dragon with three Heads and Giant Wings with Red Eyes on them. And at the top of it's head there was a small human figure.
Upon closer inspection Twilight backed away and said in terror.
"Spike...."
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