Rarity used her telekinesis to take flight.Well it wasn't really flight so much as it was hovering. Only wings could bring about real flight. She entered the Everfree, Trixie also hovering by her side. Rarity fired magical spikes at any youkai she came across. Youkai were, in most cases, white pegasi in white gowns that could use magical attacks without a horn. They mostly had blonde manes and were, also with some exceptions, inherently evil.
As Rarity shot them down, the others retaliated with orbs and crystals of energy in a variety of patterns. As she took them out, absorbing their power allowed her to strengthen and spread out her magic spike attacks. Occasionally, some strange magical spinning blades would come from the east and west. Eventually, a stronger youkai appeared. It looked like a cross between a uncorn and a changeling ( although the unicorn showed a lot more). She had more powerful attacks, such as creating a half-circle of yellow magical squares and another of blue magical crystals after the first had split.
It didn't take this one long to retreat though. The battle lasted only about 30 seconds. After that, it was just a little while of the same barely formidable youkai.
" Ah, the moon sure is beautiful tonight." Rarity said.
" What? Are you kidding me?" Trixie replied, sounding agitated.
" Look at it. It's absolutely gorgeous! It's like... What was it called, the pascal moon?"
" The Great And Powerful Trixie envies your carefree manner. You even enjoy staring at the moon...
If there was somepony else I could bother, I would've never taken you along tonight!"
" If only." Rarity remarked to herself.
Suddenly, that weird youkai from before appeared. "come on, you two..." it said.
"we're enjoying it. Well at least I am." Rarity stated.
"Well, Trixie is enjoying herself, too! At least more than you, Rarity!"
" Didn't you just say the exact opposite?" the youkai responded in a pissed-off tone.
" Of course not. I'm not watching the moon, I'm.."
"Firefly watching, right?" Rarity chimed in.
"Almost, but not quite. Very perceptive of you."
"C'mon, I'll shoot first if you don't." The youkai interrupted. Rarity wished she could find out her name.
" It's more like firefly HUNTING" Trixie had a slightly evil smirk at this point.
Rarity began to fire upon the youkai using her magical spikes. She retaliated using a similar attack to the half-circle one from before, except it lasted longer. After only a few seconds, she changed strategies and started firing three beams of yellow energy balls at a time. Rarity recognized that she was using spell cards. Extremely powerful combat spells. Rarity managed to dodge them. All of the sudden a barrage of green magical crystals shot from a light green orb the youkai, who Rarity had decided to call Wriggle, had cast. She was just barely able to dodge them. Wriggle then starting creating rings of green magical crystals that expanded outward. They were easy to avoid. The next spell was just a large amount of yellow energy balls in an interesting pattern. Then the barrage of light blue energy balls, light blue magical crystals, and yellow magical crystals. This ended up proving to be a massive challenge.
Slowly but surely, Wriggle went down.
" You realize that firefly hunting is about catching them, not beating them up, right?"
" The Great And Powerful Trixie wanted to catch it, but you went and squashed it!"
" This is hardly any fun... Don't get me wrong, I was just dodging it." Rarity said.
And on that note, they went delved further into the Everfree Forest.
The Path Where Ponies Vanish.
Rarity and Trixie hovered above and followed a path. Rarity was attacked by many of those magical sawblades or whatever they were. But some of these ones could fire a lone energy ball. Occasionally a youkai or two wearing a pink dress would show up and attack. As she went on, more youkai showed up at a time. She unleashed a frequent barrage of magical spikes upon all of them. The more there were, the harder it became to dodge all of their attacks.Luckily, most of them went down quickly.
Then an earthpony youkai appeared. How it was able to hover, she had no idea. It had a pink skirt you would expect a filly to wear. It cast spirals of green energy balls from it's\her staff. It then tried to limit her movement by making an unmoving arrow pattern out of light blue energy balls. It then tried it's luck with purple and green arrow projectiles in spiral patterns.
"Wait, wwaaaaaaaiiittt!" The youkai screamed.
" Huh?" Rarity said, confused.
"Where are you going at this time of night?"
" It's Rarity's youkai extermination month. I'll go wherever youkai live!"
"Wait, what? Are you trying to pick a fight with me? " the youkai half-laughed.
" 'Rarity's youkai extermination' hilarious."Trixie remarked sarcastically.
"Oh, don't you know how amazing I am at that? I exterminate youkai and ponies with final spark all the time!"
"You. Pony. Don't you have any idea who I am?" The youkai half-growled.
"Huh?"
"All ponies fear me in the darkness! If I wanted to, I could call so many youkai here they would eradicate every pony in the land!"
"...Heh. That's enough chirping, you windbag." Trixie interrupted.
Rarity laughed a little bit. "Looks like you still don't get who I am. "
"Pony?"
"Pony." The youkai said.
"Pony all the way." Trixie giggled a bit as she said that.
"Uh...right..." Rarity stuttered out.
"See. Starting tonight, you two will never again be able to see in the dark! I am Mystia!"
She started firing spiral patterns of green energy balls. Rarity struck back with full force. Most of her attacks were stronger versions of the ones before. They were still powerful spell cards nonetheless. Then she tried to use a barrage of one single pillar of red energy balls, purple arrow projectiles, and slow-moving dark blue energy balls. Rarity kept her assault of magical spikes going.
The next spell card Mystia used looked complex, but was the easiest to avoid. The trouble was that it seemed that she was losing her sight. Oddly enough, Trixie took control of the fight. She seemed to be having the same problem as Rarity, but was still able to barely dodge the attacks thrown at her and fight back.
Trixie dealed the final blow, and Mystia plummeted face-first into the ground.
"Much better. Got rid of all that darkness!" Rarity said.
"Damnit, we've gotta get moving! We don't have time to waste on small fry!" Trixie half-yelled agitatedly.
"Where are we going anyway? I'm sure there are no enemies that way."
"I can sense powerful energy coming from that direction..."
"Only ponies live in that direction. Totally innocent, just like myself."
