Pegasus and The Flame of Equestria

by ScottishPony

Chapter 2: Gabriel and Satan

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Emily woke up on her silken bed in Jupiter's castle in Olympus. It had been a rough night, as she had nightmares of the  promiscuous oaks dying slowly, screaming in pain. Looking back, she remembered Agent PS and all the scientists back where area 51 was. Emily shivered at the thoughts of the clones. Jupiter had brought them into Olympus, but he created a whole new reign for them to live in, so no other Olympian had to find out about it. The scars were too fresh in her mind, and Emily could feel the flame rumbling deep inside her. Emily took a deep breath, and calmed herself down, and looked to her side. The magnificent, winged stallion Pegasus was standing over her, glowing viciously in the darkness of her room.

"Hey, Pegs..." yawned Emily, stroking Pegasus's soft head.

Pegasus nickered softly, and sat down, and put his wing over Emily. Smiling, Emily stroked his large, beautiful wings. Emily began to think of Cupid. He was gorgeous, and always managed to impress Emily with his looks every time. Even though Emily's crush on him was well dead, it didn't stop her from blushing every time she saw his beautiful face.

Clambering out of bed, and dawning her beautiful silken dress, Emily walked with Pegasus through the long tunnels that made up Jupiter's palace. Once they were at the entrance, Emily climbed onto Pegasus's back, and the stallion spread a-wide his huge wings, and took flight. Emily looked over the night-time Olympus, and saw the creatures that walked, played, and worked by starlight alone. Emily glanced upward and saw the star-studded sky. She instantly spotted Chrysaor and Joel flying not too far away. Chrysaor was Pegasus's brother, and although at birth they fought, now they loved each other. The great winged boar flew alongside Pegasus, and Joel looked over to Emily, and grinned.

"So, how did you sleep tonight Em?" Joel grinned, clutching tightly onto Chrysaor's neck.

"I was ok, but I seem to keep getting this strange dream." Emily replied, with half the enthusiasm of Joel.

Joel's right arm was made of Olympian silver, since he lost his actual arm in a fight against the gorgons. Vulcan had fashioned an arm for him and it worked just like a normal arm.

"What's this dream about?" Joel asked, his eyes glimmering with excitement.

"It's just... Do you remember the scientists and agents of Area 51?" Emily began.

"Hm, oh, you mean the people Jupiter turned into trees?" Joel replied, raising his finger up to his mouth.

"Yeah, I've been having dreams about them bleeding to death, screaming in unimaginable pain..." murmured Emily from deep I her thoughts.

A heavy silence filled the air, and the only sounds were the soft murmuring of the night creatures from Olympus below them.

"Hey guys!" spoke a voice from behind them, making them both jump, "What's up?" the voice turned out to be Paelen the Magnificent, flying using his sandals that Mercury had given him.

"Oh, nothing. Emily has been having nightmares again." Joel chuckled softly, but quickly turned it into a cough once he looked at Emily's angry glare.

Paelen was the thief of Olympus, and although his thieving days were far behind him, he couldn't help burglarizing every now and then. He had stolen numerous pieces of metal from Vulcan, and stolen numerous other goods. He once worked up the courage to try to steal Jupiter's crown, but failed miserably, and ended up in jail for two months.

There were some impatient snorting and nickers from Chrysaor and Pegasus. After a few minutes of awkward silence, they touched down near a large willow tree, that was formally known as Agent T. Gently climbing down from Pegasus, Emily walked up to the tree. The leaves around shivered in a wave.

"Why, hello everyone." the tree spoke.

"Hi Tom." smiled Emily, gently kissing a leaf.

"Hey, Alexis, it's Emily!" the former CRU agnet called up to the sphinx.

Suddenly, something leapt into the air, and flew round the tree a few times, like a cat stalking prey, and the touched down. It was Alexis, the sphinx. She has the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the top-half of a woman.

"Why, hello Emily, I didn't expect to see you here at such a late hour." Alexis spoke kindly, rubbing up against the bark of Tom, "Shouldn't you be asleep?"

"Nah, we're fine. Em just got a nightmare is all." Joel replied enthusiastically.

"Hm, but it is quite late. Do you want to have a little bit of ambrosia up here? I have plenty to spare." the sphinx offered kindly.

"That sound ni-" Emily was in the middle of talking, but was cut off by a large explosion coming from Olympus.

All of the group's heads shot round to see smoke rising from Jupiter's castle. Pegasus reared onto his hind legs, and kicked the air angrily, and without Emily on his back, he began racing forward.

"No, Pegs, wait!" Emily desperately ran forward, in an attempt to catch up with the stallion.

The flame bubbled up deep inside of her, and she began running as fast as Pegasus, if not, faster. Tears rimming her eyes, Emily quickly leapt onto Pegasus`s back, just as he took off. Not far behind them, Chysaor and Joel were taking off, follows by Paelen commanding his winged sandals to carry him through the air.

They were quickly on the scene, and were surprised to see Gabriel and Satan himself, fighting in Olympus Plaza district. The ring of their two swords, made them look like the exact opposite of each other. Gabriel, being an angel of Olympus and all, had a beautiful, Olympian silver sword, decorated with the most beautiful rubies, sapphires and emeralds. Satan on the other hand, being a devil, his sword was made of twisted, gnarled metal. Satan flapped his huge dragon wings, to try and get the advantage of height, but Gabriel had the same idea. It soon turned into a huge areal battle of swords. No other Olympian dared step into the fight, as they didn't want to end up like Satan.

"I was a fool to think you`d change!" Gabriel growled, tossing Satan away, and putting in a strike.

"I'm the ruler of the underworld, what do you expect?! Me to crawl down and lick your boots!" Satan snapped back, parrying  his strikes, and slipping in his own.

Satan`s strikes caught Gabriel off guard, and Satan grabbed, and crippled his left wing. Struggling to stay in the air, Gabriel did his very best to put up a fight. Satan easily parried his blows, and grabbed his other wing.

"Say your prayers..." whispered Satan into Gabriel`s ear, and crippled his other wing.

Maliciously, Satan tossed Gabriel like a rag-doll through the air, striking him with his fists as he flung him.

Unable to take anymore of this, Paelen ordered his sandals to go after Satan. The sandals quickly obeys, and flew straight towards Satan. Apparently, Satan, the seer of everything, did not see this coming, and Paelen got in a punch across the face, before Satan dropped Gabriel, and went for him.

"That is the last mistake you'll ever make!" snarled Satan, swinging his gnarled blade at Paelen, but Paelen neatly dodged every blow, "Sit still you pathetic worm!"

"I'd rather not!" Paelen used his power to stretch body parts, to stretch out his hand flat, and he caught hold of the blade, and easily took it from Satan.

Roaring with anger, Satan swiped for his sword, but it was too late. Paelen has tossed it to Emily, who caught it easily. Paelen was too busy looking down, to notice Satan recovering from the sudden shock of loosing his most prized position, and was coming for him. Satan punched Paelen so hard, that the sandals stopped flapping. Paelent plummeted to the ground, and was quickly caught by Joel. Gabriel, on the other hand, was not so lucky. Gabriel was too far to be caught by any of them, and he was lying in a heap at the bottom a crater.

Satan's eyes beamed around, looking for his next fight. His eyes stopped on Emily, and a vicious grin adorned his face. Satan swooped down, and grabbed his sword, and retreated into the sky again. Pegasus whined and stamped the ground with his golden hooves.

"Language, now, Pegasus!" teased Satan, tossing his sword from hand to hand.

Satan raised his hand, and everyone apart from Emily was blown away. Satan then clicked his fingers, and Emily could no longer move. Struggling to move, Emily's mind was telling her to run far, but her legs would not respond. Satan kept his hand held up, to keep everyone away, and he kicked Emily down. Furious whines from Pegasus filled the air, as he tried to get to Emily, but couldn't. Tears fell down Emily's cheek as Satan lowered his hand onto the hilt of the blade, and held it like a claymore.

Satan's sharpened shoes dug into Emily's skin, turning the beautiful white dress, a blood red.

"Satan! Stop this right now!" came the booming voice of Jupiter, "Release the Flame of Olympus now!"

"Hm, so.... She is the Flame of Olympus....." Satan looked down onto Emily's face, which was now soaked with her explosive tears.

Gently, Satan lowered his blade to her neck, "Say nighty, night!"

Suddenly, loud whines of Pegasus filled the air, as Pegasus shot forward. Satan had exquisite reaction time, but Pegasus's was better. Pegasus easily kicked Satan down, and held him. Satan could easily overpower them, but Joel, Alexis, Chrysaor, and Paelen were on him. The others were still incapable of reaching them, so Emily was forced to do one thing. Emily noticed that she could move again, she sat up. The flame burst onto her left hand, and she walked up to Satan's head, and sat on her heals.

"You deserve this fate. I, and many others are sacrificing to destroy you once and for all...." Emily raised her burning palm to her tears, and Satan struggled as much as he could to try and get free, but to no avail.

Emily took a deep breath, and set fire to the tears.......

Everything flashed white, and the faded screams of Paelen, Joel, Alexis, Pegasus and Chrysaor filled the air. Soon, everything faded to black....

"Emily!" spoke a strong, deep masculine voice of a pure-white stallion, "Emily, wake up!"

Suddenly there was a huge explosion, and the stallion rushed over to the crater. "Joel, Joel! Joel wake up!!!"

There was two more explosions, and the stallion rushed over to them, "Brother!!! Brother, wake up!!!! *gasp* Paelen!!! Wake up!!!"

There was one last rash, and the stallion rushed over to that, and looked down, "Alexis!!! All my stars! Are you ok?! Wake up!"

The stallion took them all out of their craters, and laid them in a neat row, and unfolded his wing over them to keep them warm.

"Wake up... Just wake up.... please..."