Castlevania: Portrait of Chaos

Chapter Sixteen, Part Three: Rainboom

“What’s it take to put her down?!” Jonathan hollered, pulling out another weapon from his wing: a double-bladed axe.

“Hmmm, perhaps a massive amount of positive energy may neutralize her darkness.” Charlotte sighed, her horn charging up another spell.

“And where do we get THAT?” Stella snapped, glaring at the unicorn with her eyes narrowing.

“Weeeell...I do have my element with me right now.” Rainbow commented, raising her hoof. Loretta glanced at her, seeing a golden necklace with a ruby carved into the shape of a lightning bolt around the cyan mare’s neck.

“And what the hell does that do?” Jonathan asked, balancing on the polearm using one hind hoof

as if here were in a circus.

“Jonathan, it’s one of the six elements that saved this world about three times. Maybe four? I can’t remember too good right now.” Charlotte answered, looking at the dustball who now held a giant boulder in front of its frame.

“Who do I knock out first?” The dustball asked, looking at all five ponies at once. Rainbow spread her wings and took to the sky, her necklace glinting in the faint moonlight in the process.

“Hmmm it could be a good idea, as what I learned, she is the embodiment of one of the elements. Perhaps it could weaken that ghost.” Charlotte murmured, firing a concentrated beam at the boulder which caused it to shatter into pebbles.

“It cannot be used alone.” The ghost smiled wryly, its horn charging with a spell of its own. “You’re such a stupid child.”

Charlotte’s eyes immediately went blank white and steam blew out of her nostrils.

“Back to square one then….” Jonathan sighed, noticing he was becoming a bit wobbly on top of the polearm. With an axe in his forelegs, panic begun chewing on him and made him a bit nervous.

“Uh yeah, Jonathan, that seems pretty dumb to do. I’m surprised your head hasn’t been split open yet!” Charlotte snapped, glancing at the red pegasus.

The ghost grinned. “Sounds like I have my target now!” It said, staring at the pony who was in the middle of a dangerous balancing act.

Loretta looked up and saw a rainbow trail rapidly shooting towards the earth. She was quick to yank the axe away from Jonathan right as he slipped and fell off of the polearm. By sheer luck he landed in a cart filled with hay.

The trail grew closer and closer, and all eyes not faced towards the sky soon found a most spectacular sight awaiting them in mere seconds.

A titanic BOOM sounded and it roared like thunder, and a rainbow-hued shockwave shined in the moonlight as its radius spread far and wide. The center of the sky-doughnut was stark white, allowing the moon to shine through right onto the ghost.

The ghost let off a shriek as the sonic boom caused its dusty mass to wither away and be carried off in all directions by the resulting wind.

Rainbow Dash landed where the spectre had been standing, and she looked at the group of ponies who stood there (in Jonathan’s case, sat in the middle of a haycart) staring at her with wide eyes and open jaws.

“What the hell?” Jonathan asked, literally so struck by the shockwave he was rendered unable to say anything else.

“Well...that takes care of that.” Loretta sighed, strands of mane out of place on her head.

“Yeah…” Charlotte added, blinking a bit.

“She really lives up to her birth-given name.” Stella chimed, her wings refusing to close at all. She sheathed her sword hastily.

Behind Rainbow, a brick wall formed out of thin air. Attached to that wall was a painting of Ponyville.

“Oh no…. don’t tell me…” Charlotte started, her body beginning to quake with fear as horrid thoughts began doing marathons in her mind.

Rainbow flew up into the sky again, but she didn’t get far because her nose met with an invisible wall. She looked past Canterlot and found that, much to her horror, the outermost margins of the town were all she could see--the rest had some kind of black mist lingering about it.

“Just as I thought. I hope no monsters attacked the sitting ducks yet.” Stella said, cringing a bit as she approached the painting.

Rainbow landed on the ground next to her fellow pegasus. “Can’t see anything past town. It’s...like nothing was even there.” She said, her voice filled with dreadful concern.

Jonathan took the polearm out of the ground and held it in his mouth. He glanced at the unicorns who then nodded.

All five trotted until they were directly in front of the painting, albeit it was a bit crowded.

“What do we do now?” Rainbow asked, noticing Charlotte’s horn glowing again as she raised her hoof upwards almost as if possessed.

“Let her work her magic.” Loretta sighed, blinking a bit.

The painting slowly turned into a glowing portal of brightest light that outshined the sun as it seemed to allow a purple horn--followed by mane--to pass through.

They jumped, seeing that Twilight was sticking her head out of the painting as if it had a gaping hole in it.

“So it connected to here and this was where you were Rainbow? Scootaloo was worried sick, as were the rest of us!” Twilight scorned, a frown on her face. She wasn’t amused.

“Hey Twilight, we ended up fighting zombies and… oh crap she’s reviving again!!!” Jonathan cried, noticing the ashes once again intermingling as if to mock him for his stupidity.

“Jump through the painting already!” Charlotte cried as Twilight pulled her head back into the paint. The group of ponies jumped through with haste and found themselves landing face-first on a dirt walkway and before a familiar set of white hooves that had gold horseshoes.

“Welcome back, was there any trouble?” Celestia asked, a warm smile on her face.

“A lot,” Stella scoffed, getting off of the ground quickly.

“Princess, Nightmare Moon is a ghost now and my element was not enough to beat her. It only stunned her, I guess…” Rainbow murmured, a look of shame on her face.

“DID THOU SAY NIGHTMARE MOON IS AS GHOST!!!” Luna bellowed, her wings spread in shock.

“Lulu, what did we say about the royal voice?” Celestia asked, giving her sister a glare.

“We’re witnesses.” Loretta said, groggily raising a hoof up.

Charlotte tensed up, feeling something breathing on her from behind. She turned around, seeing what could be best described as an adolescent wyvern with horns on its head staring back at her with red eyes. It’s frame was a dark blue-gray, and its arms sported clawed, two-fingered hands with wing membrane present.

It sat there on her back, about the size of a hen. An even larger, similar creature that stood half of Celestia’s height pried it off of her back and put it on the ground.

“Slogra, I command you to get that dragon away from her!” Called a demonic voice, causing Rainbow to turn around and see Death standing there pointing a hoof at the large beast. Next to him was a creature that was skin and bones. It was pale gold in color, and it had an oversized beak that could very well be a meat-slicing set of swords.

It had two arms that ended in three claws, and unusually large feet. It pried the big dragon and the little one off of the ground, dragging them to the Reaper and away from Charlotte.

“Why is… that Gaibon the size of a baby…?” Charlotte asked, pointing to the hen-sized dragon that began crying like a baby whose bottle was taken away from it.

“It is a baby Gaibon. It hatched right on your back as you came through the painting.” Death answered, turning to the big Gaibon swiftly.

“Mama!” It cried, kicking and punching at the air as it kept crying.

“Oh no….it imprinted on me?” Charlotte asked, her eyes widening in shock.

“I’m afraid so, and it sees that rainbow-maned one as the other parent…” Death answered grimly before grabbing the big Gaibon with a hoof and raising all sorts of hell at it.

“What in tarnation is a Gaibon anyhow?’ Applejack asked as she approached the group.

Charlotte pointed a hoof at the dragon getting bitched at. “That,” She answered, her face turning a darker hue of blue from a feeling of unease.

“From what Ah heard, that baby one thinks…” Applejack started, only for Rainbow and Charlotte to nod their heads whilst experiencing cold sweats.

“That is just too funny to think Rainbow is the daddy, wait till Scootaloo hears this one!”Sweetie Belle and Applebloom chimed in unison with wide grins on their faces.

The baby Gaibon giggled as it got off of the ground and walked over to Rainbow and said “Daddy?”

“Uh...help.” Rainbow pleaded, looking at Charlotte who was equally as horrified. The unicorn shook her head, clearly unable to provide any assistance.

“You not daddy.” The baby Gaibon said, pointing at Rainbow before it waltzed off to Jonathan and hugged his leg. “This is daddy.” It added lovingly.

“Well bub, it’s better that it’s you than it is me...” Rainbow admitted registering the look of pure terror that came across Jonathan’s face.

“When’s the wedding?” Stella jested, poking both ponies with the bare tips of her wings.

At that moment, all Jonathan and Charlotte could do was scream in agonized wails and the baby Gaibon thought it was a game and screamed with the two.