Wings of Roaring Flames
Ch 7: End of the Nightmare...?
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This purple mist isn’t right. All these ponies murmuring is making it hard to focus, but…I hear a silent voice…’feel the heat….YOUR heat…let it flow, and let it become a part of you. Mentally and physically.’ Sure, since I became a pegasus, I have felt a bit warmer, but that’s normal I’m sure. I wasn’t use to the fur…but yet…I still feel warm, but let it become a part of me physically?! How does that work?
I looked up to see the mist gather, and form a pitch black equine with slitted teal eyes, and a mane like Celestia's but it was like a purple night sky. I could hear many frightened gasps and saw many back away, looking scared. I could see the large black pegacorn looking at all the scared ponies, and she…smiled, showing such sharp teeth. I couldn’t help but glare at her watching her closely. I regret feeling so protective for others, because now…she is looking STRAIGHT at me, with a malice filled grin.
“your long lost princess has finally returned, and I shall finish what I started…and give you the best gift I could possibly bring you…everlasting night!!!” I couldn’t have heard her right. Everlasting night?! She’s insane.
I walked up to the clear area that was made from all the ponies backing away. “are you insane?! Everlasting night would kill us all! Without the sun, without its light, there is no life, no plants, no food, NOTHING!”
She looked at me and snarled as she spoke with such venom in her voice. “don’t ever talk about my sister’s sun around me…” I could see her horn flare up with a strong sensation of energy flowing through the room. “…I must teach you to respect your princess I suppose…” she shot a beam of magic at me.
I just decided to raise my wings, like a shield, and close my eyes tightly. I knew it was useless but…aw, who cares, I’m about to die and that voice is yelling to me now…
“RELEASE THE FIRE!!!”
My eyes shot open to see a reddish orange flash, then nothing…
Twilight POV
I can’t believe it. Blaze stood up to Nightmare Moon. How crazy is he?! But now…his wings…more specifically his feathers…are now on fire, and it’s blocking Nightmare Moons magic. How can he do this? His kind didn’t have magic before, but even if he did start absorbing natural magical energies, he is a pegasus. He shouldn’t be able to manifest it like this.
Nightmare Moon soon stopped her magic and just stared at blaze in shock and confusion. To see her like that, her spell blocked, it was shocking that an alicorns spell was so easily blocked, and by a PEGASUS! And blaze seems so unphased, but his eyes….are red? That can’t be good…
Blaze POV
My vision is back, and Nightmare Moon looks shocked. I quickly looked over myself and I wasn’t hurt. I looked at all the other ponies to see none were hurt. What happened to her blast of magic? It doesn’t matter; I have to focus on the threat. Before I turned around the ponies seemed to flinch back, and I felt…my ears twitch……”oh fu-“
I heard a loud slapping sound as I saw the world suddenly lurch by, till I hit a pillar, going through it and hit a wall denting the wall in. I felt myself fall onto the floor shortly after…my body wont move, my mind is numb, hearing is….weak. I felt the vibrations in the floor, and I could feel a few hooves on me. one by my wing, delicately, softly….Fluttershy….another was on my shoulder, serious pressure, strength…Applejack…I felt my head lifted and saw twilight, and her mouth moving. All I could get, was that she was asking “if I was ok”, and “how did I do that”…do what? Did I stop her spell somehow?
Once my hearing came back and I got my senses back, I heard Nightmare Moon laugh and say she would bring a never ending night. I got up and ran at her, but as I jumped to tackle her she disappeared. When I landed I slid a bit and turned in mid slide panting. A warmth was flowing through my body, and I wanted to g after her, but I have no idea where she went…all six of the girls soon walked up to me after I had calmed down and sat there running a hoof through my mane to get the awkward feeling rubble out. Drywall, wood chips, and plaster...and…black fabric? I picked up the fabric, but soon after it went into my hoof.
Before I could question what happened I heard Twilight's voice. “ARE YOU INSANE?! SHE COULD HAVE KILLED YOU! IT’S A MIRACLE YOU ARE EVEN ALIVE!”
“I couldn’t give her the pleasure of fear…besides…if her blast of magic hit me, she has no strength to her, because I must have been hit by it, and I’m not even hurt.” I looked at the other girls who were staring at me shocked. “what?”
“you…don’t know what you did?”
“no?”
“your wings went ablaze, and you used them to shield her magic. You blocked an alicorn's spell, like it was a foal’s.”
I looked at my wings and then at Twilight. “my wings….on fire…? Then why aren’t I burnt? My wings are still fine, nothing is wro-“
I saw something move outside the window, and then I heard a female voice say ‘element’.
I shook my head and looked at Twilight. “Twilight does the word element mean anything to you?”
She just went wide eyed and ran off leaving the building. I looked at the others as they nodded, and we all ran after Twilight. Why does the word element mean anything to me…I remember hearing Twilight mention some ‘elements’ but…I feel that the voice didn’t mean those at all. I think the voice meant the natural elements…like…fire. Wait…they said my wings were on fire…I’m not burnt…’element’…nah, I’m going insane…
We quickly reached the library and saw Twilight inside. I just started looking at book names, and found a book called ‘The Ponies of Equis, and The Elements”, which got my attention. I heard Rainbow Dash ask if Twilight was a spy, and Applejack knew that wasn’t it. I quickly grabbed the book and opened it looking in it.
This book talked about ponies that controlled the natural elements, and other forms of existence. Fire, water, air, lightning, terra, ice…even light and darkness…there were so many listed, that many were only expected to exist, but was never seen as being controlled. The listed elements that was seen being controlled was terra, light, dark/shadows, and…fire. No, that doesn’t make sense, this book says descendents got the element after they died, and I'm a human...or...i was.
I put the book away and headed over to the girls as twilight got a book from pinkie. And started talking about some ‘elements of harmony’ that resides in the ‘castle of the two sisters’ in the Everfree Forest. We headed for the forest, but as I started heading into it, I looked back to see the girls looking at the forest scared.
I just facehoofed and looked at them. “girls…it’s a forest…all forest’s have dangers, now we have to get moving.” I continued walking as I finished what I was saying. “I mean…I could get lost in here, since I have NO idea where I’m going…”
I knew that would work. They hurried up to catch up and we started heading into the forest. We reached a mountain-side path. I turned back to see rainbow doing some weird, creeping thing, then when she finished the path broke underneath us. Me, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack were sent sliding down the mountain-side.
I saw, Rainbow heading for me, but I pointed to pinkie, and she got the message as she went and snagged pinkie, while Fluttershy got rarity. Applejack bit into a root as I slid by her, but she let go going after twilight. I just extended my wings, which helped slow me down, but if I went off the ledge below, I’m sure I could glide down at least. I mean, gliding isn’t THAT hard right?
Thankfully, I don’t need to find out. I stopped right on the edge as Applejack let twilight go. But I could see Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy ready for this. That’s a relief…I saw Applejack hopping down the flat top parts of rock and I followed after her.
There were a few other things that happened as well…a Manticore that Fluttershy helped, and got…a funny looking new hairdo, from the Manticore licking her. A rapid like river, where a serpent lived, and Rarity gave her tail to be his new….half of a mustache. And there was a bridge where Rainbow Dash went to the other side, and tied the rope so the rest of us could cross.
Then, we finally reached the castle. We carefully headed into the castle, but a dark purple flash stopped us as nightmare moon was now standing in front of us. “so, the pests have come to retrieve the elements I see. Too bad they aren’t any use to you, considering they are now stone.”
I walked up to twilight’s side and whispered to her. “you girls go find those elements…stone or not, they have to help us…”
I could hear concern in twilight’s voice when she whispered to me. “what about you…? You aren’t planning to fight her, are you? Maybe last time was just some fluke, I don’t want to come back and see you dead…”
“me? die? Fat chance…now hurry…” I walked closer to Nightmare Moon, as the girls ran down a hall to the side. “so…I suppose this will be the last time we meet…”
I saw Nightmare Moon grin, as her horn ignited in her dark purple glow. “yes…and it will be great to see you squirm under my hoof…”
I was about to respond but, I felt a surge go through my head. All I could do was close my eyes and start speaking.
“By the flames of grandest light, the chill of coldest winds, I call upon the ancient energies to lend me the power of the lost one…Noctis ShadowFlame…yolos do wuth, naak zey, ahrk bodiir zey suleyk zu'u huvut.”
At the last word my eyes snapped open as I felt energy surge through me, as I extended my wings and I felt the heat flow off the feathers as they went ablaze. The look on Nightmare Moon's face seemed like one of fear, and concern, yet it quickly changed to that of rage, and bloodlust.
I was starting to step forward, but I quickly flew towards her, and started spinning like a funnel making a drill of fire and rammed her into a wall quickly flying back landing in a slide panting a bit. Flying takes a lot out of you. I saw her climb out of the rubble and blast a huge spell at me, which I lifted my wings as a shield as I jumped up letting it send me out of a window. While in the air I flipped and flew up as she flew out of the thick smoke, and flew up after me.
“ready to give up yet?! My magic will break through yours soon.” I didn’t want to admit it…but she is right…I’m not used to this. I can already feel the strain on my body, but I have to keep going. The girls need to find the elements; I need to keep her here till then. I just hope I can do this.
She started shooting volleys of magic blasts at me, which I just dodged or used my burning wings to deflect them. It gets harder to do so every second, and I’m sure she knows how taxing it is on me. I gotta think of something now, or twilight and the others find the elements really fast!
I could see her charging a spell like she did at Ponyville before I blacked out. Wait, I blocked that with my wings…but if I do that now, I’m gonna fall….
“the power of blood…is strong…do not fear…the dark….but show….to fear what is…IN the dark…”
That voice again? And what does it mean by ‘the power of blood’? I felt a huge pressure start pushing me, and I felt myself go through stone and hit a hard surface. I carefully got up, feeling dizzy and exhausted, with my body burning, and stinging. When I looked around I saw the main room, where this all started. I saw nightmare moon glide into the room grinning. I can’t let her win….I WON’T!
I extended my wings, but I saw the orange light in front of me go out. I looked at my wings, and saw my flames were out. This isn’t going to be good…
I looked ahead, and all I saw was a blue and black mass, which made me jump back and see a widely smiling nightmare moon. Her smile easily showed off her sharp teeth. This is it…I gave everything I had….but I failed the girls…I failed…I….fai-
“BLAZE!!!” I heard 6 voices call my name and I looked back to see all the girls wearing necklaces, all of which looked like their cutie marks, but Twilight had a crown/tiara instead of a necklace. Are those the elements? I just smiled knowing they got them, but I lost the smile as I felt a sharp pain in my chest and I saw all the girls eyes go wide, Fluttershy had her hooves to her mouth, and Rainbow Dash seemed to get really mad…I….I don’t wanna look….
I made my head turn and look down to see a stone stretched out a spike and impaling up into my chest. I cant believe I let my guard down…I soon felt pain surge through my body, which made me cough from my air catching in my throat, and blood just poured from my mouth. I could see the edges of my vision get a black fog, and everything started feeling cold…
I saw blood on the floor in front of me, and flowing down the stone spike, but I just smiled as my eyes were wide. The edge of my vision blackened by the odd black fog, and everything but the center of my sight was blurry. I just chuckled and looked at Nightmare Moon who looked scared after I looked at her.
I heard myself talk, but my voice had…a slight growl behind it, as well as a hint of venom. “you just made…the worst decision of your life…” I saw my hoof raise and hit the spike breaking it, and I just saw blurs of black, blue, purple, and grey. After about a minute I saw I was looming over nightmare moon who was…standing? No, I can't be taller than her, but I feel like I’m standing on the ground…
I saw my hoof rise up to my mouth and I…bit it making it bleed. And then I saw a red spike shot forward, like a blade sticking out of my hoof and move to her neck. No…I don’t want to KILL her! I gotta stop this! I started to pull my hoof back and stumble back. It hurt to make myself move, I felt cold, and alone, but I couldn’t let myself kill another…I can’t…
I heard my growl-like voice yell out again. “NO STOP, I COULD END THIS NOW, IF YOU JUST LET ME! STOP THIS! WE DO NOT KNOW IF THOSE ELEMENTS CAN EVEN STOP HER!”
I soon saw fire swirl around me for a few seconds then disappear and everything seemed…bigger…taller…and then I just fell over trying to breath, which hurt so much to even do. I saw a rainbow like blast go around nightmare moon, then a bright flash. Soon after I lifted my head weakly to see the girls run over to me.
I could slightly hear them talking and looking worried as Fluttershy was looking at my wound. The room seemed to get brighter, from a light behind me. I turned my head and saw the sun rising. At least, I get to know the sun gets to shine on Equestria again…I wonder what the next world is like here…my thoughts were interrupted when I saw Celestia fly into the castle. She seemed serene and calm till I heard twilight say I was seriously injured. She hurried over to me, and I saw a gold yellow light on her horn, and I felt the cold inside me fade, and be replaced with warmth. I just laid my head down and started relaxing, which made my eyes heavy.
I could hear the girls’ voices talking to me as my eyes were closing.
“Blaze, please don’t shut your eyes…i-if that’s ok with you…” heh, Fluttershy…I will miss that timid and kind tone of yours…
“Blaze if you die on me I will NEVER forgive you. You are almost as cool as me, and I wanted to race you one day. DO NOT DIE ON ME YOU BUCKER!” Rainbow Dash…you are so cocky, but it suits you…it would have been awesome to race you…but I guess that won’t happen…I’m sorry Dash….
“Darling, you can’t die. There were so many designs I had come up for you. You can’t leave us….” I heard a choked sob. “you can’t…” Rarity…I really wish I got to see those designs…I’m so sorry…
“c’mon pardner, fight this. Ah know you are stronger than this. We need ya sugarcube…” Applejack…the southern drawl is just perfect for you, and I only knew one other it worked for. I wish I could try one more of those apple family apple fritters….and I wish I could have seen what country life was like…working on a farm…
“don’t die. The princess will have you healed up soon…please just hold on…for all of us…you may not think we know, but we all know you have a pain deep inside…and we all want to help in healing it…you’re our friend…and we want you to live….fight it….for us….” Twilight….heh heh…you all think you understand…but you don’t know the half of it…but I’m glad to know I had friends that truly cared about me…
“come on, you need to live. I still have a few party ideas I need to throw for you! You HAVE to live!” I could see her mane fall, go straight, and her bright pink coat, mane, and tail…darkened… “and I don’t want to see anypony die…please…*sniffle* don’t die….” Pinkie…go back to your happy self please…I can’t stand to see you like this….
I cant stand seeing any of you like this…I…cant die…not yet…I’M NOT READY TO DIE YET, DO YOU HEAR ME DEATH?! I HAVE TO STAY, AND PROTECT THEM, PROTECT THIS WORLD!
I slowly moved my hoof and closed my eyes tightly and gritted my teeth as I forced myself up groaning from the pain shooting through me. I could hear all seven of them saying to stop, but I had to stand up. I had to show death that I NEED to stay alive, that I can fight him, and do what I have to. I was standing up, but I held my head low panting from all the exertion from today. You will not take me today death…and not anytime soon…
I felt a hoof lift my head by the chin and saw Princess Celestia looking at me worried, then she slowly smiled and I felt the spike slide out of my chest slowly making me gag, from some blood that came up and I gritted my teeth as I felt the spike slowly leave my body. The wound burned so badly I just wanted to scream, but I held it in as I kept choking up on my breaths, and the blood that tried to come out.
I heard stone clatter on the floor and I started coughing, but no blood came out. After my coughing fit I went to wipe the blood off my face, but found it was gone. Celestia must have cleaned me up using a spell as well…hmm, I wonder if I can say I got stabbed in the chest and lived now? Probably not…oh well, I’m alive, and that’s what matters. I couldn’t help but smile and look at the girls and shrug. “no big deal, ya’ know?” I just had to add a smirk at the end of that.
It was short lived as all the girls except twilight and Celestia tackled me in a hug, which made all of us laugh. Laughter…its good to finally, and truly laugh again…its been so long…I soon saw Celestia heading to a light purple, or bright violet colored pony. Wait…that cutie mark…I saw it be…fore….oh no….
I quickly jumped up and took a few steps closer extending my wings as they went ablaze watching the pony closely. I heard Celestia say ‘sister’ which turned my mind around, then flipped it upside down…yep…everything has become backwards, and upside down to me right now…after seeing Celestia and her sister hug, I could tell my wings had gone out and I folded them. Then I heard two silent and long ‘cooooooooooooooooooolll’’s come from behind me. of course I could tell it was Rainbow and Pinkie.
The purple-ish blue alicorn I learned was named Luna, walked over to me. “I just wanted to apologize….for what happened…you don’t have to accept it, I just want you to know I was really sorry…” I saw her head lower like she was ashamed.
I just sat there and set my hoof on her shoulder, which made her look at me in surprise at me, while I had a smile. “it wasn’t you…you weren’t in control…so I can’t blame you, for what something else did…” I saw her smile and nod before walking over to Celestia.
Pinkie started hopping around, happily. “you know what this calls for?!” I felt myself lurch back and I saw Ponyville, around me, and tables and party decorations. “A PARTY!!!” did she…? No…she must have had the princess teleport us…right…?
Oh well, the party was fun and all, but it was short lived since it WAS early morning, and all of us (except pinkie maybe, since she just seems to be hopping everywhere…) all the girls headed for their homes. I turned around to start walking and froze. I don’t have a home here…I heard a groan from behind me and felt something start pushing me towards the library for a moment before twilight was beside me.
“you are staying with me, you think the princess, would send you here without a place to stay?” twilight makes a good point…but in the library? Oh right, there’s two bedrooms upstairs…kind of like a small apartment upstairs, but the kitchen is off the library on the first floor. I soon got in my bed, and yawned in expectation of the coming sleep. As my eyes started closing I saw a dark blue alicorn with grey mane and glowing blue eyes…with black sclera…and a scarf that seemed to move on its own, while tearing off small pieces, yet never diminishing. I wanted to ask who he was, but his horn got a pitch black glow as I felt a burning sensation deep inside me, and fell asleep.
Author's Note
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