Rainbow Dash: The Fall of Equestria
Chapter 6: Rainbow Dash: The Beginning of the End
Previous Chapter Next ChapterRainbow sat thinking off that dreadful day when she had found her friends dead in the field. After that she had got, crazy. Just screaming and killing anything Rainbow saw. By the time the enemy called for a retreat Rainbow Dash had killed near two hundred of the enemy. She was covered in blood by the end. Both her own and the enemy. Many of the surviving allies came over to her and tried to help and calm Rainbow, but she would just tell them to leave her alone and let her sit by her dead friends. Rainbow prefered to be alone. Just like she was alone now. The dragon roared again but Rainbow ignored it. Feeling nothing anymore. Except hatred and fear.
Later the day of the battle Rainbow had found a shovel left behind and began to dig. Many of the Canterlotians had stayed, setting up defended and sending out scouting parties, none had returned. One of the Pegasus captains said something about the whole area being surrounded and that there is no way in or out of Ponyville. The little morale that was left soon feel after that news, everypony could see the black clouds hanging over the mountains in a huge circle around the town. Dragons could been seen completely covering the skies, fire spread everywhere and even the Everfree seemed, dead. Discord was destroying everything, once a Hydra actually charged into Ponyville from the Everfree covered in blood and soon died, the wounds were from Discordian weaponry. Word even soon came back that not only was Canterlot besieged, but taken too. Rainbow Dash didn't know herself, I mean the sun and moon still circled round right? So Luna and Celestia were still fighting, but Rainbow knew, everypony knew that Discord's army was just too big for anypony to fight, let alone win against. The end of Equestria was here.
It had been two weeks since Rainbow watched her friends die and more and more attacks from Discord's army slowly drained the Canterlotians stationed at Ponyville, the enemy seemed to be using more guerrilla tactics, appearing every now and again with crossbows and other ranged weaponry and taking a few soldiers out at a time, which was weird because with all the enemy surrounding the town they could just charge in at any moment and wipe everypony out. That's what they were doing in the sky, the few ponies that had stayed in Ponyville, and the even fewer Pegasi in that number tried to escape daily and were taken down by arrows, traitor Pegasi or even eaten by the giant dragons claiming the air. The unicorns were constantly looking for a way to defeat Discord, but to no avail. The remaining ponies just stayed in their homes and boarded themselves in, without even thinking of food or water supplies. Many ponies were just killing themselves, a better way out that becoming some mutant of Discord's legions Rainbow guessed. She had thought about death much since the beginning of the war, suicide actually seemed like the best choice at times, but Rainbow was determined to fight on. Yet here she sat, curled up like a little filly crying her eyes out after memories of her friends deaths.
The dragon roared again and its shadow could be seem through the thick could coverage, they certainly knew somepony was in there, it just happened to be Rainbow Dash.
"I could fly, try to start anew somewhere else, I can't be the only free pony left." Rainbow Dash muttered, in truth she hasn't flown since she had retreating up here, but suddenly her need to escape was great. The only problem is that damned dragon.
"I couldn't escape, that dragon would eat me before I got two feet out the door, even if I did manage to escape Discord would definitely send those, things of an army after me." Dash muttered.
"I guess this is it then. I will starve and die alone up here, surrounded by the enemy." She grunted, beginning to cry again. She found herself remembering way back, before the war. When Discord returned.
Everypony stood around the statue of Discord, wearing the Elements of Harmony ready for when Celestia let him free, she had brought the god here to see if Fluttershy could, save him, from evil and use his magic for good. But when Celestia released him, everything went wrong...
"Okay everypony, are you ready? As soon as I release him do not hesitate to use the Elements to stop him if he goes on a rampage." Celestia muttered, horn glowing with magic.
"Do it princess, we are ready." Twilight replied, Celestia closed her eyes as she focused on the spell, cracks began to appear on the statue and evil laughter could be heard within. The stone suddenly exploded in a blinding light, when everypony could see again, Discord was gone.
"Ah it is so good to be back. Did you miss me?" Discord's voice echoed.
"Discord! Show yourself." Celestia ordered.
"Oh so you can turn me to stone again? I don't think so Tia. This is my turn now." Discord grunted, suddenly appearing, he shot Celestia with a bolt of black lightning and she screamed and fell. Discord vanished again.
"Celestia!" Twilight shouted, the two guards who accompanied the princess rushed forward.
"Take her to the castle! She can be healed there!" Rarity shouted, after some pause the ponies nodded and loaded the princess onto the chariot and galloped off.
"Poor poor Celestia, burning away like a tree in a fire just because of some dark magic. Well my little ponies, its your turn now." Discord echoed, laughing. "No, you are the Elements of Harmony, you might actually defeat me before my plan comes into action. I shall let you defend your homes, but eventually you will fall. Twilight, you I shall take first, letting some giant dragon eat you whole. Fluttershy, oh poor dear, so quiet and scared. I shall surround you with my horde and make them kill you, slowly, painfully. Rarity, you shall die face in the mud like everypony else. Pinkie, the party pony. A few cannons to the body should slow you down. Applejack. You poor dear, I am going to kill your family first, burn your farm and watch as you lose everything. And Rainbow Dash, I will leave you last, let you run. But eventually I will find you, and will kill you." Discord's voice said, then, silence.
Discord actually hadn't done any of those things, well yeah AJ did lose her family and home to his army but the god hadn't killed any pony personally, and Rainbow saw how everypony else had died, surrounded by the enemy, together, except her.
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