Even Harmony has an Opposite

The Battle

In its place stood a powerful looking earth pony. It had the Preludes of Chaos incorporated into its’ pure obsidian black armor. The helmet had the same form of a dragons head, and the chest plate had winglike attachments on it. But the most intriguing part was, where the mane and tail were, instead was a flowing black flame. Then the pony opened its blood red eyes, and held up its hoof. Some of its mane came down to the hoof and swirled up. When the column of black flame broke up, a large obsidian blade, thrice as long as its wielder, with upward facing crescents placed onto the blade, complete with a blood red ruby on its hilt, appeared. Red lightning jumped back and forth across the length of the blade.

“You like it? Made it myself. I call it... The Crescent Wave.” He swung. Suddenly three crescent shaped blades of red energy blew out from the large sword. Twilight and her friends jumped out of the way as it exploded against the back wall. Twilight had an unhelpful look on her face. “Now what do we do?” Pinkie Pie perked up. “I think I know...” And she began to rub her amulet. Rarity looked over to her. “Pinkie Pie, I don’t know if this is a good time for shining your neck...” She was startled by a small movement behind Pinkie Pie.

Somehow, her shadow was peeling itself off of the floor. It was as if the shadow was pulling itself up from a deep pool. When it got up, the shadow looked similar to Pinkie Pie, except it’s mane was down. It was also holding two pairs of blades. A pair of chakrams, and a pair of katanas. Both had three balloon accessories hanging from the hilts. The shadow held out the chakrams to Pinkie Pie. “Thanks!” Pinkie Pie said, and grabbed the blades. She froze for a second, and shook her head. “Whoa. Brain blast! Let’s do this!” Pinkie Pie leaped forward, with the shadow following close behind.

Twilight knew that the only experience Pinkie had when wielding a blade was in a kitchen cutting up ingredients. So why was she so expertly swinging the blades around? Rainbow Dash stepped forward. “I still need to get him back. No pony messes with Rainbow Dash and gets away with it!” and she began to rub her amulet. The sky cracked. A single cloud floated down in front of Rainbow Dash. With the first lightning strike, a beautiful golden rod came down from the cloud. With a second strike, an iridescent blade shaped in the form of lightning grew from the cloud. When Rainbow Dash grabbed it, a brilliant thunder came from the sky, and Rainbow Dash launched herself with a brilliant swing of her new pole axe.

Twilight could not believe her eyes. She knew neither of them knew how to wield a weapon, and yet there they were, swinging blades as if they had done it their whole lives. The Obsidian Knight was busy blocking blows, but took the occasional slash. Whenever he swung out to strike, Pinkie Pies’ shadow blocked it as Pinkie Pie moved in for a counter. Rainbow Dash, despite wielding a heavy weapon, was swinging her pole axe almost as quickly as Pinkie’s daggers.

Twilight was pretty confident to where the fight was going until the Obsidian Knight blew them all back with a powerful swing. Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash slid backward, stopping next to Twilight, breathing heavily. Applejack stepped up. “Come on Rarity, let’s show’em what we’re made of!” And with that Applejack rubbed her amulet. Two great columns of earth burst from the ground. Applejack hit each with her front hooves, shattering both of them. When she drew her hooves back, they each had a heavy red gauntlet, with three apples cut into its design. Rarity rubbed her necklace. From the rubble of Applejack's columns came three glittering diamonds. They moved into a triangular shape. Two white beams of energy connected them, and a third string connected the far two, forming a bow. Rarity grasped it, and it glowed brightly.

The Obsidian Knight smirked. His mane grew again, landing next to him. The black fire curled up into a sphere. When it dissolved, there was another knight. This one was different though. It was a mare, wielding a twin blades.

With that, all four of them rushed forward. Applejack stopped shorted and pounded the ground with all her might. Three great pillars of rock exploded from the ground. The knight and the mare jumped away. The Obsidian Knight then met up with Rainbow Dash. They exchanged blows, with Rainbow Dash continuously backing up.

Pinkie Pie was fighting with the mare. Her blades moved like a blur as she spun around, stabbing wherever she could. But the mare was keeping up with her and her shadow easily. A well placed swing knocked Pinkie Pie back to Rarity’s hooves, where she’d been standing, holding her bow. She released the string, and a flaming arrow shot towards the mare. It dodged in time to avoid a magnificent explosion.

Rainbow Dash was out of breath. She could only block now. With one powerful swing, the Obsidian Knight knocked the weapon out of her hoof. He held the Crescent Blade up, only to get knocked in the face with Applejack's heavy gauntlet. He skidded back a few feet. When he looked up, there was the smallest fracture where the chin was. Applejack smirked. “Get your weapon RD, I’ll hold him off.” and with that, she dashed forward and unleashed a barrage of attacks that could rival the firing rate of a minigun.

Fluttershy was hiding behind Twilight the entire time, both paralyzed in sheer awe. They could not help but stare at their friends, fighting against their greatest foe. They were even more shocked that the foe could keep up so easily. Despite being two on one on each side, they could clearly be seen striking back and keeping good pace with the pair.

Then Twilight saw the Obsidian knight knock back Applejack and Rainbow Dash. The mare used some sort of concussive blast to knock Pinkie Pie back into Rarity. “I can’t take it anymore.” Fluttershy whispered, and rubbed her own necklace. Suddenly sunlight broke through the dark overhead clouds. A golden rod burst from the ground, and golden wings extended from the top. Three glass butterflies came and alighted atop the staff, floating gently above it. Fluttershy took an unsteady hold of it and she gained a new determination. She held her new staff up to the sun, and it reflected magical light onto her friends. Twilight watched as each of them stood up, with renewed energy. Fluttershy then swung her staff in a downward arc, sending an arrow of pure light towards the mare. The mare was too late, and the moment the light pierced her, she shattered into black dust.

The Obsidian Knight saw this. He stopped. The group readied their weapons. “Twilight, would you mind helping? This guy isn’t getting any easier.” Rainbow Dash looked over to her friend. It was true, she hadn’t done much to help out. So she tried rubbing her tiara. But nothing happened. “Twilight...” Applejack was sweating now. Loose rubble had begun to float around the Obsidian Knight. Twilight was confused. She was caught off guard by an explosion from the Knight’s direction. A large black and white aura had formed around him, and that could only mean he had gotten stronger.

Rarity ran her hoof along the frame of her bow while Fluttershy waved her staff in the air. When Rarity pulled the string back, there was an impossible amount of flaming arrows resting along the frame of the bow. Fluttershy pulled her staff backward, conjuring about a good five dozen golden arrows. Both of them let loose. A golden red shower rained down on the Knight. The Knight looked up, and instantly the arrows shattered. Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie rushed in through the golden red curtain of magic. Rainbow Dash brought her axe down with enough power to level a mountain. The Knight just put up his sword and blocked it. Applejack and Pinkie Pie were having trouble getting in close. The aura scorched them like the heat of blue flames.

Twilight was helplessly fiddling with her tiara. “Why isn’t it working?” Rainbow Dash called out “ANY DAY NOW TWILIGHT!” Twilight's’ face contorted in fear. The Knight remained untouched throughout this whole time. Rarity was running along the walls, firing several arrows at a time, to have them all hopelessly shatter before they could reach the knight. Fluttershy was doing her best to keep her friends active and replenished.

The Knights’ eye flashed, his aura disappeared for a split second. Then Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Pinkie Pie were blown backward. Rarity flew into Fluttershy, sending them both crashing into the floor. Twilight gasped and looked at her friends. They were weak, and Fluttershy was unconscious, unable to help the others. Something snapped inside of Twilight, and she turned to the Obsidian Knight in a fit of rage.