The mare in the Everfree Forest

by MoonLily

Chapter Ten

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The sun taught me a few healing spells that harnessed the power of the sun along with a few burning spells that I could add to an arrow to cause some harm to the pony I was aiming at. I practiced aiming my weapons at the sun while he gave me targets to us my spells. As a unicorn I could use my horn, as a Pegasus my wings would glow and as an earth pony I had to cast them with my hooves. The liquid night held up to the brightest of spells he had. The scenery was starting to fade as I landed on the ground.

“What’s happening?” I looked around as the stars were disappearing.

“Time is up you going back” he smiled at me as everything changed around me. I could see Twilight standing over me as Rarity was pouring a bottle of cold water on my coat.

“Ow what happened?” I forced myself up as I noticed we were taking shelter behind one of the walls that remained.

“Oh you’re alive” Rarity smiled as she placed the bottle down as she tapped on my bracelets “I didn’t notice those before”

I look down as my eyes widen as I realize that it was all true and not my mind playing tricks on me. “Still doesn’t answer my question?” I looked at her than to Twilight.

“Applejack and Rainbow dash helped the princesses by distracting Neptune for a few moments so we could pull you safely from the circle, Pinkie has disappeared.” Twilight had a worry to her face as I smiled at her.

“Well then we should go help them” I got to my hooves feeling the burning sensation were the lines use to be.

“Not in your condition Lily” Twilight had forced me back to the ground as I shook my head.

“No this is my fight and my fight alone!” I got back up walking around the wall I could see the Princesses were to the ground bleeding from a few cuts to the bodies but I could also tell they were magically exhausted as the guards were the ones placing the shields up. I noticed Applejack and Rainbow Dash were hanging upside down from the tree as Discord was helping Fluttershy by pulling him back

“HEY OLD MAN!!” I shouted causing everypony to look over at me as I gave him a large old smile.  Neptune turned his head towards me as I could see his wicked grin turn into a smile. Twilight ran over towards Celestia as Rarity was with her. Luna started at me with a worried look in her eyes. I closed my eyes letting the bracelets turn into a black liquid changing into a black thick armor with a white trim as my crest of a skull with crystals appear on my chest with the sun in the upper right corner and the moon in the lower left. My legs were covered in the same armor as I took a fighting stance watching the dark blue Alicorn in front of me with his wings extended out. I kept my ground watching for the right moment letting him move first. I ran past him as my form changed letting two large wings appearing as my horn disappears while I launch myself into the air. He turned around after slamming into the wall. I still had the armor on but it changed to fit my body.

“Princesses what is that she using?” I could hear Twilight speak as I focused my mind on creating a bow along with a set of quivers on my hip.

“She using Liquid night” Luna was the one to speak as I let my arrow go passing him but striking the rope that held Rainbow Dash and Applejack to the tree. Neptune came soaring up towards me as I closed my wings letting my body go into a free fall before opening them up soaring along the ground and past Rainbow Dash and Applejack creating a dust trail that was following me.

“YOU BETTER RACE ME AFTER THIS IS ALL DONE!” Rainbow had shouted at me as Applejack smacked her on the head with her hoof. I kicked off a few reaming walls as I flung myself back up into the air pulling out an arrow, I used my wings causing them to glow a bright yellow as I casted a firebolt spell on it and took aim.

“Behind you!” he shouted at me causing me to close my wings up once again as I aimed up letting the arrow go and striking him in the shoulder. I was unable to open my wings in time so I let my body crash to the ground below. I found myself in a dry river bed with Pinkie Pie sitting right next to me with a green cameo helmet sitting on her head.

“Pinkie what the buck are you up to?” I looked at her as she smiled.

“Distraction!” she had a party cannon sitting right next to her as she bounced up out of the river bed and then bounced back with a match in her mouth.

“Pinkie”

She pulled the string aiming a cannon ball right at Neptune who dogged it letting the black metal ball crash land into the far wall. My eye just twitched as I flew out of the river bed with my arrows at my side as my wings were glowing a pale yellow healing a few of my wounds not all of them. I landed on a wall with my bow in my mouth as I pulled an arrow from my quiver I brought it up but he was too fast and I had to fall back. I landed on the ground changing to an earth pony my hooves were glowing now as I slid out in front of everypony with the ground cracking as I summoned up fire from the ground creating a wall separating between me and him. He blew it out with a strong wind.. I returned to my unicorn form as my eyes became pitch black along with my magic. The liquid night returned to being a set of three golden bracelets on my leg as my legs had a small black ring around them. I then created a large black ring around the outer side of the shield the guards were casting and around Applejack and Rainbow dash who were still hiding under the tree. I was digging into my knowledge of black magic the oldest kind of magic I had before using my true form. It was pure black magic not tainted like Sombra’s with hate. I then slammed my hooves into the ground created a set of black wolves with red glowing eyes.

         “Protect and fight” it was all I said as half of the wolves went after Neptune by my side and a few stayed back along the line around the shield and in front of Rainbow and Applejack. We were able to  attack his wings making them useless. The wolves would fight it off as I would slam into his body causing him to knock over until my magic ran out, leaving me with one option the one I didn’t want to use. While I was up on the moon the sun had taught me how to us my true form. My eyes became a dark blue as the armor faded along with my coat into a dark liquid form as my mane changed to a bright white and my mouth had disappeared. Cadence had let out a shocking yelp as she hid behind Captain Armor.

“What is that?” she yelled as Neptune grinned.

“Her true form” he voice had become demonic as my mane became a liquid that was floating in anti-gravity kind of like Celestia’s and Luna’s mane. He charged up his horn and we went running towards each other in one final clash.

"Eu sunt o stea căzătoare, o stea căzătoare care e viața a fost întoarsă cu susul în jos și a rupt în afară de ea! Ca Soarele și Luna uita în jos la această luptă voi termina!" ((I am a star, a falling star who's life was turned upside down and broke out of it! As sun and moon look down on this fight will end! ")) I yelled out not caring who was around me as a large blinding light shone throughout the area. When the light faded I could see that Neptune was lying in front of me with a sword in his chest and I was back to normal wearing the liquid night as armor. His blood was tainting the ground before his body burned up into ash leaving nothing behind.

“GET OUT GET OUT!” I turned around to them.

“why?” Twilight looked at me, as the ground started shaking and the ceiling was cracking up letting the cold northern wind in.

“IT’S COLLASPING!” I shouted again as the guards grabbed the fallen or the wounded “HEAD DOWN THIS WAY!” I pointed towards the tunnel as everypony helped each other along leaving me to trail behind as I took one last look at my childhood home before the rocks and the snow had taken it before my eyes. I had reverted back to being a unicorn and casted the light spell so the others could reserve their magic. We trudged through the tunnel coming to the end with the wooden platform.

“How do we work it?” Celestia was looking at it as I placed her and Luna on it.

“Like so” I walked over towards the wall pulling the rope free of the ice and started to pull on it with my magic sending them up towards the top. I’ve done this a few times until Twilight pushed me out of the way taking over. I walked over towards Rainbow as she was pulling the injured from the tunnel before a large growl and then a whooshing sound came from it as large gust of wind hit us. I walked over towards Rarity who was helping Fluttershy to get the wounded on the platform.

“Need any help?” I looked at them as Rarity shook her head as she walked over towards me.

“Nope but you need your rest darling” Rarity had tapped me on the back and I had suddenly realized I had more injuries than I thought. I nodded to them as I walked away towards the back of the group watching everypony work as Discord came over to me.

“You know I owe you an apology” I looked at him as he laughed at me.

“Oh miss tough mare! “He had froze up “Okay I except it” he was beaten down by Fluttershy staring at him which made me smile. I sat their quietly as my vision started to fade and my injuries starting to be noticed as an Orange blur came walking up to me.

“Sug?” I could hear Applejack’s voice.

“Yes?”

“We need to get you up now since everypony has been taken care of” she wrapped her hooves around me as we walked up on the wooden platform with Twilight on the other side of me. I guess I was sitting there for a long while and I didn’t even know it. My vision was still failing me as we reached the top of the cave. The able body guards were waiting for us as the escorted us through the town back towards the castle. We were brought to the throne room; Twilight was looking around for the Princesses while Applejack was sitting next to me.

“Sug you okay you don’t look so good?”

“I don’t” I fell short as I fell to the ground landing back on the moon as I stared at the white dust plain again “Don’t tell me I’m dead for real now?” I looked behind me as the two ponies started laughing at each other.

“Not dead just tired, your body has taken a large hit plus your magical reserves have been used up to the point where it’s actually low” the moon smiled as I lay down in front of them.

“Well how long will I be up here?”

“Who knows but with how much you’ve taken I’m guessing around a couple weeks to a month but don’t worry you wake up in good hooves” the sun had a grin on his face.

“Okay I already have this feeling you and I are not going to get along.” I looked at him as he shrugged.

“No pony has ever gotten along with him, he still fights Celestia when she tries to raise him in the morning and set him in the evening.” The moon smiled as I started to laugh.

“Well let’s get to work if you have time to talk then you have time to fight and to learn!” he stood up looking at me as my eye twitched.

“I’m going to recover slower aren’t I?”

“Maybe?”

What seemed like hours or days passed as the sun and the moon taught me everything they knew. I was in the middle of a full blown solar attack then everything disappeared from my sight as I opened my eyes to w bright white room with ponies wearing white lab coats stand around as a weird machine with wires is hooked to my leg.

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