Slardar in equestria - dota

It was dark, cloudy night. The sea was rough, wind was blowing really hard and even predators did not dare to hunt in such bad conditions. However, on the shore there was someone standing there. He was wearing a dark coat, covering every part of his body, except from his face. Once the lighting stroke it turned visible.

       The stranger had purple face with horns and devil smirk. Riki was his name. He was the only survivor of Tahlin dynasty. After his entire family was killed, Riki had one purpose. He wanted to revenge, above anything else. Once, he even managed to confront his enemies, but it turned out that he was too weak to kill them all. He had to flee and gather army, but army requires money.

Initially his plan was to rob some very rich plant owners, but it turned out there a was different way. A special announcement , was made by the king. If anyone dared to steal a royal jewel from the “deep ones”, he would grant one wish no matter the cost. Now after weeks of preparation Riki was ready. It would be a waste if he did not try. Slowly, he snipped out of a small vial, with glowing blue liquid in it. Then he opened it and sniffed it.

“Yuck,”- he said. It had a smell similar to one of a rotten fish and density of an oil. It was now or never, he gulped it instantly and waited for the results. Riki started to shake violently, then he fell on his knees and his vision became blurred. The pain was agonizing, worse than anything he had ever felt. Maybe except from Phantom Assassin's infamous critical strike.

He waited patiently, until it was all over. He looked at his hand and hooves. Both have changed. Now each of them featured some sort of fins. He smiled, but when he tried to breath he could not. He started to panic, quickly took off his coat and jumped into the water.

He tried to breath again and this time sweet air came all the way to his lungs. Calming himself down, he started to swim towards his objective, the sunken city of “deep ones”.

         After a few minutes of swimming he started to have doubts, if he was really going towards his target. On his way he has seen dolphins, Wales, even sharks, but not a single one of the inhabitants of the city. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of something.

He approached it slowly, and then he started to sift sand. It was a small bracelet, covered with runes. Riki smiled, he was on a right course. As he continued his journey, more things started to appear. Quite often he would come across some old statues or devastated buildings. After a short while, his destination appeared right in front of his eyes.

Cryo, the city of Slither. It was huge, bigger than any other city, he has ever seen before. It had big defensive walls, sleek tall towers and plenty of guards. He could see some sort of temples, a royal palace and ordinary houses scattered everywhere.

Luckily for him, he was invisible. However, it wouldn't mean to be a piece of cake. Each guard could easily spot him if he came too close.

He breathed deeply a few times to calm himself down, before he started  carefully swimming towards the city.  He managed to reach the walls. Having looked around, he spotted a guard right above him. Now it was the most dangerous part. He had to swim up to the walls and then quickly make his way towards nearest house.

“If something went wrong,” he shivered, even thinking about it made him anxious. He has waited long enough, he would not fail here. Suddenly the guard turned away. Now that was the time. He quickly climbed up the wall and jumped it over. Then he made his way towards small hut and hid there. After waiting a few seconds he perked out. Seeing nothing, he sighed and then started to swim towards the royal palace. It was a place where “deep ones” would dwell and their treasures too.  Riki smiled. If the stories were true, he would find enough treasures to buy an entire army.

On his way, he has seen multiple different residents of the city. Most of them were fairly similar to Slardar or Naga Siren. He spotted a few giant lobsters and even dragon turtles. Most of them were used as a food source or way of transportation. Some of them were even armored and were probably used on wars.

Soon enough, he managed to approach the palace. Several guards were patrolling it, but much less than on the walls. Evading them was a piece of cake and then he was inside. It was fairly impressive for such a city, but he could not hide his disappointment.

He expected much more, but maybe greater treasures were still hidden inside. He came across a few guards, who did not even pay attention at what was going around them. At least his tasks was easier, but there was still one left. He was a mighty royal naga guard and his name was SLARDAR!  They have fought against each other several times, in most cases Slardar won shattering his defense like it was nothing. Riki knew how powerful he was and fighting him would be a suicide in these circumstances.

Taking care of his surroundings he was moving towards royal chambers. A few times a guard swam by, but he has not noticed him yet. Then he heard something. It sounded similar, but he could not remember who or maybe what made such noises. Then he noticed him and gulped. It was Slardar.

He looked just a as powerful as he remembered him. He was a strong, sleek predator with teeth sharp enough to pierce almost any armor. There were multiple spiky fins located on his back , allowing him to swim fast enough and catch almost anyone. He was holding a tremendous weapon. It was not neither trident nor spear, but something like a fusion of them.

It was bad, like really, really bad. If he started to run, Slardar would notice him immediately. On the other hand staying here was equal to committing a suicide. As all hope seemed to be lost, suddenly something happened.

Another guard swam out of nowhere and started talking with Slardar. Riki has seen Slardar being angry, sad, even hurt, but never surprised. After a short while the guard swam off and Slardar turned around at 180*, before coming back where he came from.

Riki peaked out carefully and made sure nobody was coming. Somehow he managed to follow Slardar all the way through the palace, without being noticed. After a few minutes, they managed to reach their destination. They were standing in a front of giant, stone door, completely covered in runes.

Slardar touched the door, found the hole in it, stuck his hand and the door slowly opened. What Riki saw inside, made his heart skip a beat. The room was  filled with gold, rubies, emeralds and diamonds. His eyes opened wide, the sight of it was overwhelming. Luckily he managed to snap out of awe. Slardar looked around, trying to spot something, but as he was turning around, Riki quickly made his way past him,before the door closed. Having managed to sneak in, He quickly glanced around and noticed his target.

It was a beautiful diamond, locked in a golden cage. Making his way towards it, he quickly snatched it and he was about to leave, when he heard something. He looked at the door, which opened again.  This time Slardar came in and then prepared his weapon.

“Why would he do that?”  thought Riki. No sooner he could understand what was going on, Slardar looked towards him, smiled wryly and casted a spell.

“Oh no,”- thought Riki , as he drew his daggers .

Slardar said, ”Well, well, well. Who do we have here? Oh, It is you Rikimaru... Now tell me, did you honestly believe that you could trick me so easily?”

Riki could not speak a word, it was all over, or maybe not yet.  He quickly casted his signature spell shadow strike to Slardar, before he could react and used abyssal blade. The power of this blade could render anyone useless for 2 seconds, even if he had magic immunity. The stun worked.

Not having wasted any time more, he thrust Slardar's hand into keyhole and the door opened once more. Slardar roared and started running after Riki. Riki was so desperate, that he pushed over anything he came across, like: vases, plates, weapons even cupboards.

Surprisingly this chaos managed to slow Slardar down a bit, but he was catching up way too quickly. During the chase they  have passed by many different doors. Unfortunately none of them was open. Riki looked behind and noticed with fear that Slardar was just a few meters behind him.

“No, no, it cannot end up like this. HELP!!”- screamed Riki, when finally Slardar caught up and hit him hard.

Riki hit the wall hard enough to make numerous cracks appear. It hurt a lot, but then came worse. Slardar decided that enough was enough and attacked. Riki managed to cast a smoke, before they started to fight each other, hoping it would slow his attacks down. However, It was futile as he swiftly avoided the cloud.

Slardar clearly had the upper hand in these conditions. He swam faster, hit harder and evaded his attacks almost every time. Riki quickly used the abyssal blade again and swam away as far as he could. He looked at Slardar, who looked really pissed to say the least.

He gulped, it was now or never. Both turned on BKB. The golden glow surrounded them both, before they charged each other. Riki was prepared for the worst, but then something unexpected happened.

A big black hole appeared out of nowhere right in the middle of their path and started to draw them in. Both of them desperately fought, but the hole was too strong.

Slardar screamed,”RIKIMARU!!!!!”, before the darkness consumed them both.