I stood with the dragon elder and his son, trying to think up a plan of action.

"Why bother planning," Khan growled as I paced. "We can easily destroy the entire island!"

"And what if it turns out he wasn't there?" I argued. "We have no idea where he really is."

"We know that he wants tundra dragons," Khan argued. "To make us into more of his horrible zombies."

My eyes widened. "You're right," I realized. "Which means... all we really have to do is wait." I turned to the elder dragon. "Elder Kain. I'd like to ask that you please find a way to hide yourself."

His eyes narrowed. "And why would I?"

"Because that angry roar of yours probably got Cold Scales attention," I explained. "He's probably sent someone to try and capture you." I turned around, trying to determine where the zombies would come from. "If we use your son as bait..."

My idea had gotten the wrong reaction. Elder Kain's claw came down on me like an avalanche. The only reason I avoided getting squashed like a bug was by turning my body to shadow, seeping up through his fingers and reforming in the air.

"Trust me Elder," I pleaded as he snarled angrily at me. "The last thing I want is to put your son in harms way."

He still glowered at me, but he didn't try to swipe at me. I took advantage while I had his attention.

"I promise," I vowed. "I will do everything in my power to protect him."

"You'd better," Elder Kain growled, shifting into his dragon form. "Or else I'll have your skin."

With that lovely sentiment, he dug into the ground, and vanished into the snow. I couldn't help but chuckle at the method, before floating down to Khan.

"Even after a thousand of years of evolution," I noted to Khan. "You guys still bury yourselves in the snow?"

"It's a good tactic," Khan snarled defensively. "The snow blocks out the shine of our scales." He crossed his arms. "Besides, it's not like you got anything better. You want to use me as bait."

"I 'have' to," I corrected. "I don't 'want' to; I hate using others as bait." I lifted a shadow covered hand for emphasis. "I'm the kind of person who either fights my opponent head on or takes them out from the shadows."

He huffed. "I'll believe it when I see it, Kin Slayer," he replied. With that, he shifted into his dragon form, growing three times my size. I hoped that meant he was willing to go along with it.

Before I could ask, though, I heard something flying through the air. My eyes widened.

"Look out!" I yelled, but I was too late.

Without warning, a green shard shot past my head and pierced Khan's right shoulder. As he bellowed in rage, I whipped my head around.

Two mares were coming our way. Stitch marks adorned their bodies, along with the tattoos seven and four.

"Dammit," I growled, summoning my shadows. "Why can't I sense these abominations?"

The number four general - a black haired mare - smirked at my anger, firing another green shard from the palm of her hand.

Moving quickly, I knocked the shard out of the air with a shadow covered fist. As it spun into the snow, I recognized the gleam of an emerald gem. I sighed.

"Lavender Lily," I noted, the shadows pouring from my body.

"Always good to meet a fan," Lily replied with a wink. She turned to the number four general - an orange haired mare with her tattoo on her forearm. "Crystal, care to do the honors?"

"Why not?" Crystal replied. She put her fingers to her lips, and blew a kiss. A large, dull red heart sped at me.

Pinkamena's words echoed in my mind: "Rank Six is Lavender Crystal. Only thing our prisoner knew about her Devil Fruit was that it had something to do with stone."

'But, this isn't a stone devil fruit!' I thought as Lavender Crystal pulled on the heart. "It's the Love-Love Fruit!'

Throwing her hand forward, Crystal turned the heart into a volley of dull red arrows. I tried to throw up a shadow wall, but the arrows still pierced my body. Sure enough, my body wasn't rendered in stone. Crystal blinked, fear working it's way into her bones.

"Uh oh," she mumbled. "Uh, Lily? Problem!"

Lily groaned, summoning emeralds from the ground. "Do I have to do everything?" she demanded.

However, the emeralds weren't the only thing she summoned. With a trembling in the ground befitting an earth quake, Elder Kain burst from the ground, showering us in snow and rubble.

"You said you would protect him!" Elder Kain bellowed, his voice striking fear in the zombies.

"I couldn't sense their shadows," I growled back, taking advantage of their fear and rushing them with a shadow blade.

Using the moon walk, I landed behind them, slashing the tendons in their legs. The two zombies fell to their knees, as both dragons reverted to their more humanoid forms. The dragons bore down on the zombies, murderous intent shining in their eyes.

"Wait!" I barked, only for them to turn their anger-filled eyes on me.

"You expect me to wait after what they did?!" Elder Kain boomed. "You should be lucky I don't take my rage out on you, Kin Slayer!"

"Father I'm fine," Khan insisted, rolling his injured shoulder. "It's only a scratch."

"Plus," I pointed out. "If you kill them, we have no way of knowing where Cold Scale is."

Elder Kain moved to protest, but logic stayed his anger. For now, anyway. Taking advantage of his silence, I turned to the trembling zombies.

"Once we finish this," I promised, "You are more than welcome to kill them and then me to avenge your children."

With the dragons sated for now, I turned the zombies, facing them away from the dragons.

"Now listen to me," I growled, my vision turning red as shadows loomed dangerously over the zombies. "Lie to me and I will kill you."

Crystal gulped audibly, while Lily tried to stay more composed. I leaned in close.

"Where is Cold Scales lair?"

"We don't know" Lily growled.

"Yeah, no idea," Crystal agreed. "No idea at all."

I chuckled. "The rank seven and four generals don't know where their master's lair is?" My powers wafted off my body like a thick fog. "Well, I guess that means you're both useless to me."

Thousand of needle thin thedrils formed from my back aimed at every part of their body.

"Whoa, wait a minute..." Crystal stammered.

"But since I don't know pony anatomy," I said over her. "I guess I should start with your fingers and toes before making my way up to find your hearts and brains." I gave them both a vile grin. "Hope you don't mind a little pain."

"Wait wait wait wait!!!" Lily shouted.

"We'll tell you everything!" Crystal stammered. "Just please don't kill us!"

My shadows came back to me. I knelt to the zombie's level and put a hand over my heart.

"You have my word, I will not kill you," I said sincerely, before narrowing my eyes. "But first, you need to uphold your part. Now speak!"

Jumping at the boom in my voice, they spilled their guts:

"Master Scales has a system of underground caves that hold both the prisoners and the princess," Lily said. "The one and only entrance is located on the south east edge of the island." Lily said.

"H-However Master Scale and the army have already began to attack on the empire," Crystal added, smiling hopefully at me.

"Anything else you want to add?" I asked.

"That's everything, I swear" Lavender Lily insisted. Crystal nodded by her side, both of them gazing up at me with pleading pony eyes.

"That's good to hear," I said with a nod. "Now all that's left is to kill the two of you."

Both of their faces dropped.

"But-but... but you promised!" Crystal whimpered.

"And I always keep my word," I assured them, grabbing their arms and dragging them through the snow. "I'm not going to kill you." I threw them at the feet of Khan and Elder Kain. "They are."

Khan smiled as Lily looked up at him in absolute fear. The emerald shard she had hit him with gripped in his claw, he reverted into his dragon form.

Lily tried to crawl away, but with her tendons cut, there was nowhere for her to flee. Khan let her get a foot or two before pouncing. She screamed as his feet crushed her legs into dust, and her scream cut short as he seized her head in his jaws. Swinging his head like a dog with a chew toy, her body couldn't handle the stress, and was flung far from her head.

Lavender Crystal could only squeak at the sight of her fellow general's murder. Looking up, her last vision was of the dragon elder raising his fist, and bringing it down hard on her body. Unlike me, her fruit gave her no way out, and she disappeared under the dragon elder's fist, blood slowly coloring the white snow around the inside of the crater.

Elder Kain removed his fist, brushing the bloody snow off. "What next, Von Shadow?"

"We go to his lair and retreive his prisoners," I said. "As well as my students and the princess." I started to flare my wings but the elder held out a hand.

"It would be faster if you rode on my back," Elder Kain insisted, dropping to all fours and shifting into his dragon form.

I nodded in gratitude, and jumped onto his back.

"Don't think this will be a regular thing," he warned darkly.

I nodded. "Of course not," I agreed.

Using my powers, I hoisted Khan up as well. Elder Kain started slow before picking up speed. Within no time at all we had made it to the south-east end. And the rock formation that had to be Cold Scales' lair. Unfortunately, when we spotted the rock formation, the entrance looked caved in.

Cursing, I jumped from Elder Kain and raced over to the formation. Sure enough, I found the indentation that had caused the pile up of rocks.

"Dammit," I cursed, placing my hands on the rock. I closed my eyes, trying to sense some sort of life. Any sign of life. "Come on," I insisted. "There's no way this would kill them. They're stronger than that."

Melting into the shadows of the cave, I emerged inside, on the other side of the cave in.

Several ponies screamed. I spun, and found several of them backing up. One familiar orange mare, however, was still struggling with the rocks, half of another familiar cyan mare stuck under the rubble.

"Will you guys quit screaming and get with the shifting?" Rainbow Dash groaned. "I'm starting to cramp up down here!"

Applejack narrowed her eyes, but before she could speak...

"Don't be such a baby, Dash," I said.

The two turned to me. Applejack's eyes lit up with happiness, though Rainbow Dash's eyes quickly narrowed in irritation.

"Well you certainly took your time getting here," Rainbow noted sarcastically.

"Rainbow!" Applejack chastised.

"Hey, don't fault me for being right," Dash insisted, indicating the rubble. "We weren't exactly sitting around doing nothing!"

I glanced back at the crowd, my eyes narrowing. "Where's Pinkie?"

Rainbow indicated the rubble behind her. Clenching my teeth, I plunged me arms into the shadows on the wall. After a bit of rummaging, I managed to find a familiar poof of pink mane. And with a hard tug, I yanked an unconsious Pinkie Pie from the shadows.

Though... something was wrong with her. Her eyes were open, but completely white, lacking any pupils or irises. Her mane and coat color shimmered, altering between Pinkie's bright pink and Pinkamena's darker vermillion.

"What's happening to her?" I asked, setting her gently on the ground and moving to Applejack's side.

"Mind zero," Applejack replied, as we tugged Rainbow Dash from the rubble.

"Mind what?"

"It's what we call it when Pinkie and Pinkamena's minds clash," Rainbow explained, groaning as she streched out her stiff and aching body parts.

"Since Pinkie and Pinkamena share the same strength," Applejack added with a shrug. "Result's always the same."

I grumbled, kneeling next to the pink mare's shifting form. I tapped her side, but I may as well have been tapping a rag doll.

"And how long til she wakes up?" I asked.

"Dunno," Applejack replied. "Soonest I've seen is three days."

I cursed. "We don't have that kind of time," I noted, hoisting Pinkie up and handing her to Applejack. "We still need to get the princess out of here."

Rainbow Dash set herself up against a wall. "She's down the hall," she replied. "G-Give me a minute, and I'll show you."

"No need," I assured her, heading into the labyrinth of caves. As I began to walk, I let the shadows move out around me, sensing the maze before me.

In no time, I sensed what had to be Celestia. Hanging in a room that held eleven throne shaped stones. Melting through the shadows, I quickly made it to the room of thrones.

As I expected, I found the princess. Her white coat stained red with her own blood, dripping from three red rings on her arms.

I moved to free her, but a giggle echoed through the room. A giggle that I was very familiar with. I sighed.

"Alright, come out and face me," I growled, causing the gigling to cease. " And return that shadow inside your body."

For a moment, there was no reply. Then suddenly, a blur shot by my face. My cheek flashed with pain, and as I tried to find the source, I felt my cheek grow warm with blood.

"Tempest Kick!" a southern voice shouted, smashing through my shadowy body.

'Tempest kick and the Shave technique?' I thought as the shadows reformed my body. 'I never taught Pinkie those techniques.' My eyes narrowed. 'That must mean Rainbow and AJ's shadows are here too.'

"Surprise!" Pinkie's voice cheered from behind. I roared in shock as a blade buried itself in my back.

I spun and tried to strike, but she fluttered out of the way like a sheet of paper.

"Paper Art!" the zombie laughed, fluttering into the shadows and out of sight. I growled, and yanked the blade from my back.

"Damn Zombies," I muttered, storing the blade in my body and exchanging it for a pistol. "You wanna play rough!?" I challenged. "Let's play rough!"

"Tempest Kick!"

Immediately I spun and fired a tendril at the source of the voice.

"Get over here!" I boomed, pulling the zombie to my gun. I shoved it under their chin. "Say hello to my little friend."

My shadow bullet blew the zombie's head off, and a shadow shot away - back to its proper master. Dropping the body, I spun to find a blur coming straight after me. I stepped to the left and shifted my right arm into a shadow blade. The zombie couldn't redirect in time, and hit the blade next first.

I nodded as the second shadow left it's body, and turned back to the throne room. "Alright, come on now," I dared. "You're next and you know it."

"I don't think so," the zombie sang.

I followed the source of the voice, and found myself looking up at Celestia. The last zombie was hanging on Celestia, causing the strings holding the princess up to cut into her deeper. Her blade was on her neck.

I blinked, and looked down, but the dagger belonging to Rainbow's zombie was gone. Growling, I glared up at the zombie.

"You're tempting fate, zombie," I warned.

"I'm keeping myself alive, shadow man," she replied, drawing blood as she dug her blade deeper into the princess' neck.

"That so," I noted, putting my hands in my pockets. I didn't say it just yet, but having known Pinkie for the last couple of months, I figured a few of her trigger words might still work.

"I've got a question for you," I said with a grin.

The zombie's eyes narrowed. "What kind of question, Shade?"

I grinned. "Do you know how much a shave and a haircut is?" I asked.

The zombie's eye twitched. "Two bits!" she shouted, holding up two fingers... and dropping her dagger as a result. She tried to scream in horror, but I was faster.

Piercing her body with a shadow spear from behind, I pulled her into the wall and bound her to the stone.

"I'll deal with you later," I growled, moving under Celestia. moving to Celestia. "Right now, the Princess takes priority."

Extending my hand, I sent a shadow blade through the strings. Princess Celestia tumbled into my waiting arms. Instantly, I sensed a problem with how cold she was. And though she was normally whiter than the snow on Everest, now she was even more pale than normal.

I shook my head. "You've lost a lot of blood," I noted, gently setting her down onto the center throne. "Let's see if we can't take care of that."

Removing my coat I begin to rip it up and treat her injuries to the best of my ability. I wasn't Sombra - I had no training in the medical field. But I was determined to at least make sure she didn't lose any more blood.

"She's gonna die!" the zombie cackled as I dressed Celestia's wounds. "She gonna die, and her shadow will belong to Master Scale's strongest general for all of eternity!"

I merely glared up at her. "You know," I noted, forming a shadow spike. "If there's one thing I enjoy most...?"

I fired the spike right into her skull.

"It's proving others wrong," I finished, as Celestia began to twitch. Her pink eyes opened, struggling to focus on me.

"E-Er-Eric?" Celestia mumbled.

"It's alright Celestia," I assured her. "You're safe."

"S-Sombra..." Celestia whispered.

"Don't worry about him now," I insisted, but she gripped my arm.

"No," she insisted, struggling to hold onto her consiousness. "Tell Sombra... I'm sorry." She winced, but gazed at me with regret. "I... shouldn't have... blamed him... for... what... happened..."

With her peace said, Celestia's head hung, and she passed out again. Briefly, my heart throbbed with panic. But when I checked her pulse, I could still feel her heart beating. Trying so hard to keep her alive despite the limited blood.

"You can tell him yourself," I said softly, picking her up bridal style, and making my way back through the caves.

I found Rainbow, Applejack and the others digging their way through the rubble. Pinkie was leaned against a wall, her head rising and falling as she slowly regained conciousness.

Remembering the stone bracers on their wrists, I created three tendrils.

"Hang on a second, girls," I said, drawing their attention just as my tendrils seized their wrists.

Rainbow Dash yelped as I pulled their arms into their shadows. But when she yanked her arm out, the stone bracer was gone. Seeing what I was doing, Applejack nodded and waited more patiently, while Pinkie - understandably - didn't react. Seconds later, all three were freed from their magic restraints.

"A heads up would've been nice," Rainbow Dash growled.

"Rainbow, now ain't the time," Applejack insisted, running to the bundle of white fur I had brought with me. "The Princess..."

"She's lost alot of blood," I said. "We need to get out." I turned to the other ponies, grinning as I felt the presence of several of their shadows. "Some of you have regained your shadows, so stepping into the sunlight won't kill you."

"What about those of us that don't have our shadows?" a faded gray pony asked. "I don't wanna stay here, but I don't wanna die either."

In answer, I used the shadows of the caves to compensate for their missing ones. "I believe this should help," I replied. "I'm not a hundred percent sure if it'll work, though, so if you feel yourself start to vanish, I want you to find the nearest shadow and stay there."

The ponies swallowed, but none of them dared complain.

"The shadows are your friend," I continued as I merged another shadow to the princess. "Cling to them like a bee to a flower, and you might just make it out alive. Understand?"

"Y-Yes, sir," a few mumbled. The rest nodded assent. Spreading my own shadow to cover the ponies, I dropped the lot of us into darkness. I resurfaced in front of the elder and his son. Both of them glowered as several ponies resisted screaming at them, but their focus was mainly on me.

"Took you long enough, Von Shadow" Elder Kain grumbled.

I didn't respond. I kept a careful eye on the ponies, but thus far, none of them were turning to dust. Though, as they gazed upon the giant dragon, I wondered if some of them were going to pass out from fear.

"Calm down everypony," I said. "Elder Kain means none of you any harm." I turned back to the dragon elder. "Apologies for keeping you waiting. Scale had the princess guarded."

Elder Kain grinned. "That's fine. It gave me time to call forth my children."

A number of snow mounds erupted, revealing multiple dragons as he reverted to his dragon form. I nodded.

"Very good," I said. "With a army three hundred large, we'll need a army of our own." I started to lift my students onto the elder's back, before his white eyes narrowed in warning.

"I didn't give any of them permission to ride atop my back," Elder Kain growled.

"You have my word they will be off your back the moment we reach the empire," I said insistently.

Grumbling, the Elder allowed me to place the ponies onto his back, and we raced for the Empire.

"They'd better" Elder Kain mumbled under his breath.

Not wanting to tempt fate, I kept my eyes peeled on the horizon. Once the empire was within my three hundred mile limit, I shadow dropped myself and the ponies to the edge. Briefly resurfacing on the edge of the empire, I dropped back in like a dolphin in the sea, reappearing with my pony followers in the medical ward and scaring the doctors out of their robes.

"Take care of Celestia," I ordered, almost tossing the princess into the doctor's arms. "She's lost alot of blood."

The sight of the princesses spurned the doctors to action. They laid her out on a medical cot while I turned back to the shadows.

"Eric!" Applejack called. But I vanished into the shadows before she or anyone else could follow.

As I spun through shadows, I let my clothing be exchanged with my royal armor. I seized the Murakumogiri from the darkness around me. And drawing on my senses, I popped out of the shadows near Sombra, engaged in battle with two other zombies.

My eyes grew wide; one of them fired a pink beam that slowed his movements.

'The Slow-Slow Fruit,' I realized. 'Radiant Faith!'

Before I could try to help, the other launched a volley of strings at him - Amethyst Shard, if I was remembering Pinkie correctly. Fluttershy and Rarity shot out from the side, Fluttershy taking the stringed blow for the unicorn, while Rarity engaged the Slow-Slow Fruit user in combat.

With Rarity dealing with Radiant, and Sombra freed but distracted by Amethyst, I took it upon myself to head to Fluttershy. As I sunk her down into the shadows, sending her to the medical ward, I watched as Sombra caught Amethyst's strings, bringing an abandoned sword to his mouth with a flare of his horn. I couldn't help but grin, remembering the style I had spent so many years teaching him.

"You will pay dearly for that," Sombra seethed between the hilt in his mouth, releasing Amethyst's strings and sending her off guard while he drew his swords once more.

'That's it,' I encouraged silently, not daring to distract him, while Amethyst froze, seeing his demonic form. 'You got it.'

"Demon Aura Nine Sword Style: Asura!" Sombra shouted, the demonic aura giving him three head and six arms

"What... are you?!" Amethyst whispered, fear freezing her in place.

Sombra merely vanished... before reappearing behind her.

"You said it yourself," he mocked, as she gave one final gasp. "I'm the Dark King." He lowered his head. "Asura Silver Mist."

Nine deep slashes erupted across Amethyst Shard's body, and her final wail of agony sounded long and loud across the battlefield.

Sombra dropped to his knees, the demonic aura fading, and leaving him an exhausted mess. A second later, I saw another body hit the ground.

But it wasn't Radiant Faith that had fallen; it was Rarity. Bruises and cuts adorning her white coat, and Radiant Faith was already approaching my friend.

"One down," Radiant mocked. "One to go."

Gripping my weapon, I prepared to cut this zombie to ribbons. However, someone else got to her first.

We heard it around the same time - footsteps coming on us fast. Before Radiant Faith could turn to the source, a pair of jaws seized her by the neck. A tundra dragon about Celestia's size slammed Radiant faith into the ground and began pulling her head from her body.

I slung my weapon across my back with a nod of thanks to the tundra dragon. It ignored me in favor of destroying the zombie, but that was fine. I had the attention of Sombra, who gazed on me with relief as I grinned and extended a hand to my king.

"Need a hand?" I asked.

Sombra's grin was brighter than the sun. "Glad you could join us." he replied, taking my hand and staggering to his feet. He glanced at the tundra dragon. "Did you bring the calvary?"

My grin widened, glancing behind me as geysers of flames erupted. Pink hands and feet smashed into the ground, as a massive dragon rampaged into the city.

"Don't I always?" I replied with a grin, pulling my murakumogiri from my back and resting it on my shoulder. "Now... how about we bring this war to an end?"

Sombra's grin widened, and he clasped his hand over mine. "Let's do it."

The War of Shadows Arc Ch. 11

There, all caught up. Now we can probably beat the shit out of a shadow master wannabe

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