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Emperor Spike

by Deergenerate

Chapter 25: Chapter 21: Beauty of Annihilation

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Chapter 21: Beauty of Annihilation

Lightning coursed through the Leviathan's armor once again, causing him to scream in pain and thrash back and forth. Spitfire watched as it's armor on it's belly and neck heated up once again.

"Everyone get out of the way!" Soarin cried to the many gryphons and pegasi surrounding them. They all barely had time to scatter in all directions before with a ear drum shattering roar, the Leviathan threw it's head into the air and blasted seemingly unending stream of flame directly upwards.

Those fortunate enough to not be swallowed by the fire did not have time to celebrate however, as the dragon spread it's wings and took to the air, the wind kicked up from a mere flap of his wing was enough to knock many of the flying resistance fighters to the ground.

The dragon shot up into the air, coming to a stop above the clouds the resistance had managed to gather to hammer it with lightning. It stopped in the air for a couple seconds, a smile coming to it's face.

Spitfire knew what was going to happen almost instantly.

The dragon's breath came forth as an unending tsunami of flame and smoke that soared past the pegasi and gryphons in the air, slamming into the forest floor like a deluge of napalm. The dragon turned it's head the fire stream following it, burning a path through the Everfree towards the castle.

"We need to stop it! Asap!" Spitfire called to Soarin. "No way are the ponies on the ground going to be fast enough to avoid that!"

"Right." Soarin said with a nod, before the two of them took off through the air, towards the dragon at top speed, leaving everyone else behind them.


Twilight stepped out of the castle of the two sisters and looked across the horizon in front of her, jaw dropped.

There was fire. Fire as far as she could see. Burning trees and shrubbery filled her nose, alongside the vastly more unpleasant smell of burning flesh, be that from the animals of the forest or the resistance fighters who were unfortunately caught in the initial attack by the creature.

Her eyes first turned downwards as she saw the monsters of the Everfree that had previously brought her nothing but fear, manticores, cockatrices, chupacabras and more, pitifully scattering like ants before the fury of the Draconic Empire, some even on fire.

Her eyes turned upwards as she saw those monsters who could fly taking to the air and escaping. They were probably going to be the only things who would survive this.

Especially when she considered the wall of fire slowly approaching the castle.

Finally Twilight's eyes locked on the dragon who had caused all this destruction, just in time for her to see two streaks soar through the air and slam into it's chest at high speed. A crash echoed through the air, as the dragon flinched, it's flaming breath coming to a cease as if the air had been knocked out of it's lungs. That was likely exactly what had happened.

The dragon stopped in the air trying to catch it's breath as the who streaks of speed which she realized were Soarin and Spitfire, flew in a circle around it, hammering it with blows and attacks that seemed to do nothing but annoy it. With a roar and a whip of it's it tail it hit both of the pegasi with on attack, knocking them from the air and sending them spiraling to the flaming forest floor below.

Twilight clenched her fists, a sudden fury overwhelming her. Her breath became shaky and fury filled. This... monster had destroyed so much and killed so many. She had always thought that it was bad to kill. It was terrible to lash out with violence. That second chances were a thing that she should strive to. Everyone was redeemable.

She threw he head back with a roar, her eyes white and a massive beam of pure purple blasting out of her horn directly towards the Dragon. The beam struck the dragon in the wing and sent it careening towards the ground at high speeds, a deafening roar of pain filling the forest, followed by a earthshaking boom.

Twilight dropped onto one knee, panting. That spell certainly took a lot out of her. She hadn't done something that strong since she fought Tirek with the power of Cadance, Luna and Celestia.

"Woah!" Twilight heard from behind her, turning to see Scootaloo and the other crusaders. She couldn't help but breath a sigh of relief. At least they had made it out.

"You took 'im down with a single beam!" Applebloom cried a smile on her face.

"He's not down for the count yet." Twilight said standing up, gulping as she saw the dragon stand up throwing his head up with a furious roar. I don't know if we have anything that's big enough to take that thing down... unless..."

A smile came to her face as she spread her wings, she turned her head to the three fillies.

"You girls need to help with the evacuation. I'll take care of the dragon."

"Yes Ma'am!" The three said with a salute before Twilight took to the air, going towards the unburned section of the forest. She had an old 'friend' to say hello to.


Soot threw his head back with a furious roar. He was laying in a massive crater, which had been formed when he hit the ground after being shot from the air by a vile pony. How dare she? How dare that insect damage him!

As he stood up, his armor, shattered from his impact, slid off and broke into pieces, completely useless now.

He roared in anger. That armor costed him thousands of gems. He spread his wings and leaped in the air to track down the purple alicorn but he merely fell to the ground instead of flying no matter how hard he flapped his wings. He turned, only to see that his left wing, the one that had been struck, had a massive hole burned clean through it.

He let out yet another violent, earth shaking roar. How dare they?

There was a sudden boom behind him, causing him to rapidly spin around. What he saw caused his eyes to widen. A massive purple, translucent bear, with stars glittering across it's fur. It was easily one of the biggest creatures he had ever seen. It was even bigger than him!

A second, much smaller blue bear stood with it, hissing and roaring up at the dragon. However, what really caught the dragons eye, was the purple alicorn standing on the larger bear's back.

"You!" Soot roared, rushing forwards in a blind rage, mouth open wide. He jumped towards the bear, but was suddenly hit directly in the face by one of it's powerful paws. He was knocked back landing on his back with a crash, a massive gash now on his face. He watched as the bear stood back onto it's hind legs and, with a roar, it brought them down onto the leviathan's chest, stomping on it. He cried out in pain twisting his body one way then the other as the beat continued stomping it's massive weight onto his chest, it's claws digging into him.

He threw his head back and with a roar, shot a stream of fire directly towards the bear's face. It was almost immediately blocked by a purple force field, but he kept firing. It did nothing. He didn't stop until he felt an extremely painful punch on his throat, which instantly silenced him, cutting off his stream of fire. He looked down at what was latched around his wind pipe to see the smaller beat had bit him on his serpentine neck. He responded with a his, one of his claws coming up and bating it away.

The larger bear didn't take kindly to that, letting out an earthshattering roar, so loud that it dwarfed every shout he had previously made. Soot barely had time to react before the larger beat brought it's mouth downwards, latching against his throat causing him to let out a surprisingly pathetic whimper. It pulled itself off him, and whipped it's head to the side, throwing the dragon over it's shoulder like he weighed nothing. The dragon let out another pitiful cry as he landed amongst the burning trees, rolling for several hundred feet before coming to a stop, a sea of blood pouring from massive cuts along his body.

He tried to stand up, but his body wouldn't move. He tried to cry out in defiance or breath out fire, but all that emerged was a pathetic wheeze. He could only react with a twitch when the larger beat approached him and, in one movement, stomped on his serpentine neck, smashing his airway and putting an end to the dragon's centuries long life.


Author's Note

I can see them everywhere.
They're all around me
They're waiting for me
Descending, unrelenting
Beauty of annihilation

God this chapter took forever.

IDK why, but I had a ton of trouble writing it.

Ah well, hope you all enjoyed it.

Kaiju fights are hard to write in a meaningful and enjoyable way XD

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