EQUESTRIA'S ESPADA!

CHAPTER SEVEN: "The spar!"

By, Vladimir

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Spike jumps into the air as Luna and Nightmare clash their Zanpakuto's together making a small crater in the floor. He spins around and kicks Nightmare into Luna, knocking them both into a column before spinning backwards through the air and fanning out his wings where he them fires a Bala.

He flies out through a window and soars into the sky breaking the sound barrier with a few flaps where he then hears two loud cracks of thunder and looking over his shoulder Luna and Nightmare chase after him breaching Mach 2. He spins and surges forward as he shatters Mach 3 and booms down towards a small town with a large field of apple trees.

Luna appears before him and kicks, which he spins around and back wings her back at Nightmare who dodges her and flickers into living shadow as she moves before him and stabs forward. He barrel rolls to the side and kicks her down at the farm before booming upward as Luna appears where he was with her Zanpakuto in a stabbing motion.

He punches the air sending a large violet Bala at her, which she side kicks back at him. He back hands it and it circles down and explodes on the ground next to the orchard. An orange mare runs out of the run down house and gawks with wide eyes as Spike grabs Nightmare's and Luna's Zanpakuto and throws them aside before punching Bala's at them rapidly making them fire their own. He then booms down to the ground and flies between the trees where he stops before a yellow filly making her squeak in surprise.

He raises a brow as she stares at him before blushing. 'She looks to be a few years younger than Applejack is. Odd, I thought she looked younger before? Oh shit!!!' He grabs the mare and uses his wings as a shield as a stray Bala collides into him. He spreads his wing and booms before Applejack and hands the mare to her.

"Keep her out of the way." He says coldly before stabbing a Bala apart with his bare hand and uses his wings as shields to keep the blast from harming the ponies before him. He then spins around and booms into the sky, kicking Luna in the chin and successfully knocking her back farther into the air. Nightmare gets a lucky shot and kicks him across the sky and into a strange tree house and into Twilight who cries out in surprise.

"SPIKE!?!?" She cries out in surprise as his back steams from the intense heat. He then gets to his feet and fires a Cero that rips a hole through the wall and slams into Nightmare who just appears beyond it, sending her back into the air before she splits it in half with her bare hands. He moves to go after her but is stopped by a firm magical grip around his wings. Looking over his shoulder he see's Twilight fuming mad with confusion in her angry eyes.

"The buck are you doing!?!?" She roars. He flares his wings knocking her back against a wall in the corner and draws Murcielago, sending fear into her core.

"Sparring with my goddesses. Stay out of the way, or you might not survive." He tells her coldly before blocking Luna's Zanpakuto making the floor crack. He pushes her back before delivering a sidekick sending her out of the tree and gives chase. Twilight stares wide eyed before glaring and follows. As she gets outside she see's Applejack running along the street towards her.

"Ya'll get a su'prise visit from him too?" She asks. Twilight rolls her eyes.

"Gee, what gave that away?" She asks. Applejack points at the massive holes in the side of her tree house. She goes to comment but a sonic boom roars overhead. Looking up they see Spike booming around Luna and Nightmare faster than they can react. They then notice that their princesses are being smacked around as if they were common ponies with no power whatsoever.

"Spike sure ain't given 'em time ta react!" Applejack says in awe. Twilight nods her head and then watches as Luna roars in a rage and her blade becomes covered in black and blue flames.

"Getsuga! TENSHOU!!" She roars and swings downward at Spike who looks to be in a slight state of shock, as he freezes in mid place. The crescent shaped moon slams into Spike and cuts deep into the ground making the ground shake as raging clouds form overhead and rain pours down. Black and blue lightning roars across the clouds and strikes the ground and a few trees. A green beam erupts from the large crevice in the earth and roars towards Luna.

Nightmare appears before her and parts the beam so both pieces fly into the sky. Spike then appears in front of her with a mask covering his whole face that has another horned helmet piece connecting to the other. Their eyes grow wide as green flames erupt from the blade and spiral around the guard. He lets out a soft grunt as he raises Murcielago above his head with both hands.

"Oscuras Getsuga Tenshou..." He states before swinging down, making large black and green flames erupt into a large crescent moon that slams into both of them, knocking them down to the ground. He stares coldly down at where his mates had been knocked down, before feeling a dense spiritual pressure form above him. Looking up his eyes widen as Luna and Nightmare float above him with blood trickling down their faces.

"That was a close one...." Luna pants out. She looks to Nightmare and smiles. "Thanks...." She says. Nightmare gives her a toothy grin.

"No problem!" She then looks down at him and gains a serious expression. "Looks like we might have to use our release states to even hope about causing our love some harm, otherwise it just isn't fun~" She purrs out happily. Luna nods her head and steps forward.

"Let me go first, your release form is....too much for Ponyville and it's citizens to handle, same with his or mine. But at least I can control it better." She says. Nightmare nods her head and steps back before booming onto the ground before the mane six and Gilda, panting heavily as she leans against a building, trying desperately to catch her breath.

"What's going on?" Dash asks. Nightmare flashes a grin.

"Sparring, but it would seem we've all gotten much stronger in the past month, Dashy. But...even I didn't know he could form a mask, let alone his original one." She states oddly. Dash's eyes widen and she stares at her.

"Are you serious? Can he control himself?" She asks worriedly. Nightmare nods her head in affirmation.

"Oh yeah, even created a new Getsuga...it packs a lot of power in it too. I'm positive if I hadn't gotten Luna and myself out of the way, we would have lost." She pants out. They all look back up at the sky as Luna holds her Zanpakuto upside down with the blade pointing at the ground.

Luna then spins her Zanpakuto upward before saying softly Raizu, Mangetsu She is then surrounded by black and blue flames as her power rises and the winds howl loudly and whip across the sky, the clouds burst away from the dense energy as a full moon rises behind her. Spike stares silently at the prospect before him, before his eyes widen in surprise and slight shock when the flames die.

Luna stands in her old form with skin-tight dark cyan blue battle armor that resembles Dash's but without the blade, instead their are scythe blades jetting across her forearms and the sides of her shins. Her hooves are pitch black and seem sharper while her hands are pitch black claws. Her mane whips around and her tail is whip thin as her wings are larger and the feathers razor sharp as they glint in the moonlight.

Her slit eyes glow slightly as she summons a blue glowing trident and looks down at him.

"Fire your attack once again. And I will show you my power." She says in monotone. He narrows his eyes and sends out his Oscuras Getsuga Tenshou at her once again. She uses her left wing as a shield and the attack rages around her. "I see...." She says softly before spreading her wing, knocking the attack away into nothing but small embers. "So I am powerful enough to beat you." She says almost sadly, before booming before him and swings her trident down.

His eyes widen in surprise as he wonders if this is how it felt to be Kurosaki when fighting him. A large blue sphere forms around them in the sky, as the ponies down below stare wide eyed in shock.

When the dome clears Spike stands their panting heavily as his mask shatters leaving behind his horned helmet piece that doesn't have a scratch on it. Looking up he see's Luna gazing down at him coldly before she throws her trident at him. He regains his barrings and his eyes grow cold. He holds Murcielago out and black and green flames rage around him. Luna's eyes widen in surprise as he prepares to enter his released state with her trident soaring down at him still

'What is he doing!?!?' They all think.

Tozase...Murcielago.... Green rain roars off him as he appears above Luna before speaking his release. The green and black rain pours down upon the whole town and other towns as well as the sky grows starless and the moon shifts into a twisted crescent moon. His spiritual pressure bares down upon everyone as he stands in his released state. He summons his green javelin and appears before Luna swinging it down making at her.

She summons her trident and blocks the javelin making two raging fires of black and blue, and black and green crash against each other for dominance. When the flames die Luna whips her tail around but Spike booms behind her and points his right index finger at her.

"I'm afraid you haven't seen this technique before. Pity." He says coldly as a black and green sphere forms before his "claw". Cero Oscuras He mutters out and a large black and green Cero devours Luna and rockets across the clear dark sky. When the beam dissipates he see's Luna holding her trident with the blades pointing downward. His eyes narrow slightly before he flies higher into the sky making him look like a white speck while Luna following after him.

Nightmare conjures a purple screen as to watch, and help the others watch, the fight. They watch as Spike moves higher and higher up before he suddenly spins around and stares down at Luna. Holding out his hand with his index finger pointed down at her a black sphere forms along with floating green straight swords that surround him in a large wall with him in the middle. Luna stares wide eyed as the sphere erupts into a black Cero and the swords jet down around it in a spiraling motion.

The beam and swords roar closer and closer to her and she points her trident up at them and three spheres of blue energy erupt into massive 2 mile long Cero's that crash against Spike's own Cero and floating swords. A large explosion booms in the sky as sonic booms race across the skies and make the ground tremble as the winds down there race through the streets. The ponies stare before three large see-through walls of yellow, blue, and purple form before them and split the winds around them.

They look up at the screen and stare as Luna and Spike seem to dance while clashing against each other.

Luna dodges Spike's kick and kicks him down before dodging a Cero and fires her own back. The two circle each other as Spike firing the floating swords and Luna firing floating spears. They then clash with javelin and trident in their hands making shockwave's rip across the sky making thunderous booms when they collide. They punch and kick at each other before both fire Black Cero's that when collide, explode into a tower of smoke and raging fire.

The two then circle each other once again before dashing forward, making sparks fly. Luna manages to stab Spike in the side with her trident and then slash sideways, making a wide gash form, and his blood to spew forth. He then knee's her in the stomach, knocking the breath right out of her lungs before double hammer fisting her down at the ground breaking Mach 4. She collides to the earth making a pillar of dirt fly into the air and a bright blue light shines from her crater as she enters her sealed form with her eyes closed, knocked out.

Nightmare sighs softly, before grinning toothily. "My turn~" She purrs out before booming before Spike with her her Zanpakuto high above her head. Kurakunaru black and purple flames surround her as her whole Zanpakuto glows with a deep black light. Mugetsu The flames form a column around her as back and purple lightning arches across the sky and the crescent moon becomes devoured by darkness, leaving a pitch black sky over head.

The pillar explodes in violent waves of power as the houses down below rattle and the wind moves at unimaginable speeds as they rip trees from the ground. Twists roar around where Nightmare stands and Spike's eyes widen as purple version of his eyes stare back at him. The twister is knocked aside revealing Nightmare who strongly resembles his Segunda Etapa form only with a single horn and large fathered wings and in her original form.

Her whip like tail lashes around as her muzzle is parted slightly revealing her fangs as her cat like eyes scan him for any fear. The ponies down below stare in terror as Nightmare Moon had just gotten a hell of a lot more terrifying, before a bright purple scythe forms in her claws. She holds it upside down and summons a second one in her other hand the exact same way. Her mane whipping around and obscuring her eyes.

She booms before him giving him little time to react, but just barely manages to summon two glowing swords to block her scythe blades from decapitating him. She bows her head and at the tip of it a large white and purple Cero that resembles Kurosaki's own forms before him the exact same size as Kurosaki's was. His eyes widen in shock as he gains a flashback of his last fight, before narrowing them.

'I might be forced to go all out if she is anything like him. But knowing her, she'll outclass him, and most likely me, very easily." He thinks to himself before igniting his swords with his Oscuras Getsuga Tenshou and releases them in her face. He jets backward in an attempt to gain some room between him and her, but a firm hand grips his wing. He stares wide eyed up at her as she swings downward with a black scythe, severing his wing and right arm from his body.

He falls down from the sky and onto Sugarcube Corner's roof where Nightmare stomps down at him. He rolls to the side and jumps into the air just as the whole shop collapses and ponies flee for their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Cake stare in horror as the two fight viciously.

'This is getting out of hand. I have to end this now!' He thinks before dashing upward moving past Mach 4 making him look like a cone of light with a purple cone of light surging after him moving faster than he is. 'Shit!' He thinks as his wing and arm just finish regrowing and he uses a Javelin to block the black scythe, only for the blade to slice it clean in half and explode it. He dashes up higher and higher into the sky with Nightmare chasing after him, her eyes still being covered by her flowing mane.

He dashes sideways towards a barren wasteland of Equestria a few miles out from Ponyville where Diamond Dogs had been spotted not to long ago, where he was forced to save Rarity, that greedy mare.

He stands in the sky thousands of feet in the air where the air is too thin for any normal being to reach unless they had been prepared for it along with the sheer cold of the winds, it was safe to say the pressure should slow her down somewhat. 'Well, she is the Segunda Espada...' He thinks to himself before he is brought out of his thoughts as Nightmare stands before him, her eyes cold and filled with no emotion.

"Give up, it's useless." She says coldly. He narrows his eyes. She glares coldly at him that matches his own glares. "I said it's useless!!" She exclaims and fores her large Cero. He holds his hand out that has blood dripping from the palm.

Gran Ray Cero Oscuras He says as a large black sphere forms before turning into a wide beam that devours Nightmare's own attack and thins as it grows near. It just misses her and hits a mountain, exploding it in a large column of smoke and fire that soon dissipates into nothingness. She stares at him wide eyed as that attack most likely would have greatly wounded her.

"Do you feel despair?" He asks. She raises a brow at him. "I will show you, true despair." He says as black and green flames form around him in a circle and his "dress" starts to burn away as his helmet breaks part. Nightmare stares wide eyed. A large wing knocks the flames away and her, along with the others and a newly awakened Luna, stare in true despair as they gaze at the new looking Spike.

Resurreccion...Segunda Etapa... He states as a larger crescent moon lights up the sky and an eerie silence sets in, as despair grips their hearts. The light of the crescent moon shines across his ghostly moon pale skin like a light in a tunnel of darkness, as his sickly yellow and green eyes stare down at her from a boulder. His talon's dig into the rock making it crack violently.

"Gaze upon true despair, and accept your defeat..." He says in monotone. He dashes forward, only to appear beside her and grab her head before throwing her into the ground, where she bounces repeatedly making a jagged mote into the Everfree Forest and into an old castle spire, collapsing it. She gets out of the dirt and flies up a tower up towards Spike who is diving down at her from hundreds of feet in the air, only to be pushed into it and slide up it by him from the side.

She flops into the top room as the roof blows off and crumbles to the earth below.

She looks up with a dazed look in her eyes before they widen as Spike stands on the wall her head is resting against, his talons embedded into it. She booms up in the sky and throws her scythe which he dodges by tilting his head to the left slightly. He points his right index claw at her and a pitch black Cero forms in about the size of a golf ball.

"This is the full power form, or Cero Oscuras. This will end this spar, and hopefully not cause too much destruction." He tells her before a wide black beam roars in her face and crashes into her form, where it surges through the sky and the crescent moon vanishes, revealing the noon sunlight. As the beam dissipates the ponies see Spike in his base form holding an unconscious Nightmare who's body is covered in scars and her clothes hanging loosely on her form.

He gives her a look of sorrow before sighing sadly before looking over at Ponyville. He inwardly winces at the destruction caused and wonders if a "Reconstruction Spell" would repair the buildings and fields. He weighs the options and decides to go for it. He holds his right hand out while holding Nightmare with his left arm around her hips firmly and presses it forward, making ripples form in the air as if it were water. He closes his eyes and swipes it through the air and the destroyed buildings rise up and the tree's to regrow along with the ground to fill back up.

He pants heavily as sweat pours down his brow as he focuses on rebuilding the damage they had wrought. He pants heavier before booming before his mates and sister and her friends. He drops to his knee's from magical exhaustion and face plants into the dirt as Nightmare rolls along the ground and wakes up with a jolt, her wounds heal instantly. Looking around her eyes set upon Spike's motionless form.

She moves over to him and lifts him up so his head is resting in her lap. "Spike!? Are you okay!?" She asks. He opens his eyes lightly and peers up at her tiredly. He gives her a tired smile and chuckles out weakly.

"Looks like I win again...and look, I rebuilt most of the town again..." He says softly before closing his eyes and hissing in pain as his own wounds begin to heal. He sighs in relief and looks over his form. "At least I won't fade away this time." He says softly making them raise a brow in curiosity and confusion.

"Fade away? Spike, what are you talking about?" Twilight asks. He gains a distant look.

"The last time I died, I turned to dust and floated away in the wind. The last thing I ever thought, understanding humans, and the prospect of having a heart." He says sadly. They gain soft looks, before Twilight steps forward with a curious look and twinkle in her eyes.

"What was that spell, by the way?" She asks. He chuckles lightly.

"That was a high level "Reconstruction Spell" which is a weaker version of the higher powered "Restoration Spell" that can be used on anything, even bringing someone back to a point in time after death." His eyes then widen, as does Dash's and Gilda's.

"You don't think..." Dash starts as she looks down at her left arm and flexes her hand slightly.

"Yes, I do. It would explain many things about her." He states. Luna raises a brow.

"Who?" She asks.

"A human from our "past life" who had the power to restore anything and negate anything. Thinking about it, she probably could have sped things up and killed us all if she was trained to do so." Gilda states with a frown. They nod their heads, before Dash and Gilda get large grins as they look at Luna's, Nightmare's and Spike's tattered clothes as their bodies show from underneath them. "Though I think I'd like to play with our pet-sama~" She purrs out as she flicks her index finger up his bare chest and move the nail into his hollow hole, making him whimper softly.

Dash wraps her arms around Luna's and Nightmare's hips, her fingers going into their hollow holes which are in their abdomen's, making them bite either side of her neck possessively. Gilda picks Spike up bridal style while Luna is picked up by Dash and Nightmare grins toothily. She turns to the ponies.

"We'll see you all later~" She purrs out before they all boom away at the sound of static.

Author's Note

So, what did you all think? Short, I know. But I kind of like it this way!
Comment below, let me know!
Ja ne!