Pony vs. Pony

by s00perguy

Intermission: Dawn vs. Ghouls

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Fury.
That was what was in Dawn's eyes, her gauntlets, Ares and Mars, glinting in the light as she glared at the camp of ghouls below.
'20 ghouls? Not enough, but it'll do for now.' Dawn thought, snapping the katana blades onto her gauntlets with just a thought.
"Time to test out the new hardware!" shouted Dawn.
With a roar, Dawn broke cover, screaming with pure rage as she cut into the first ghoul, whose head promptly fell off of his shoulders and his legs were suddenly detached.
This brought the attention of the ghouls in the camp, which began loping over, launching themselves at the invader.
A flash of steel, Dawn became a bladed whirlwind, and various limbs and sections of the first ghouls fell around her with a wet splat
Their blood spattered on her face, Dawn's dark eyes took on a predatory vacancy as she bared her teeth, detaching the blade from Ares and swapping it for a scythe blade hanging off of her hip.
Launching herself into the remaining ghouls, five of which were missing limbs, only eight of which were intact.
As the first ghoul stepped into her range, she impaled its skull on the scythe, planting a foot on its jaw and giving a mighty heave, cleaving its face in half before removing its head with Mars' katana.
On the swing to remove the head of to present focus of her fury, Dawn spied another ghoul reaching out to attack. Following through on her swing, she detached the katana blade from Mars, opting for the sai blade attached to her shoulder, using the curves of the blade to impale and remove the ghoul's hand at the wrist.
Screaming, the ghoul lunged again, trying to tackle her to the ground as its companions closed in.
"Fuck this 'one at a time' shit." Dawn snarled to herself, stacking the gauntlets on top of each other as they bonded with each other, raising her hands behind her head... Where a long samurai blade awaited her commanded to attach.
With a mighty downward swing, she cleaved to body of the one handed ghoul neatly in two, the others swiftly surrounding her.
"Think you're fucking clever, getting behind me? Think again!" Dawn said, malice lacing her voice.
With a high speed swing, Dawn whirled around, swiftly separating the top halves of the ghouls from their bottom halves.
Reduced to crawling on their hands, the ghouls still tried to approach Dawn, their dead, vacant eyes focused entirely on her.
Suddenly, Dawn heard a roar come from within the forest.
"An ambush? Man, you guys don't know when to give up, do you? Alright, fine, let's play!" Dawn said to no one in particular, separating Ares and Mars, replacing the blade on her back, then reaching over to her hips, which had a pair of hook swords at the ready.
The horde came slowly at first, having to navigate the trees of the tightly grown wood, but Dawn could tell their number was mic higher than this pathetic band.
Counting forty and change, her mouth pulled into a line of fierce determination, the hook blades making a fizzing sound, confirming their attachment to the gauntlets.
"Alright! Come get some!" Dawn roared, sprinting forward, leaping the 20 foot gap that separated her from the horde.
As Dawn landed, she kicked down hard on the skull of the ghoul she had landed on, easily snapping his neck, swinging out with the first blade which embedded itself in the torso of the ghoul, which she swung into the crowd, bowling over ten, tearing through the rotten flesh.
Latching the blade around the neck of a sturdy ghoul, Dawn planted her feet on its chest, giving another mighty leap into the thick of the crowd, removing its head in the process.
While flinging herself through the air, Dawn detached the blades to her hips, exchanging them for the scimitar blades on her thigh, the steel glinting in the twilight with a red tinge from the setting sun, as though already covered in her enemy's dead blood.
Flashing the blades, she made short work of limbs and heads, driving Ares through a ghoul's throat and gutting it like a fish, immobilized as it was.
Jumping back out of the crowd to a relatively safe distance, Dawn hefted a severed head on her hoof before giving it a mighty kick at the lead ghoul, causing him to stumble long enough to switch to a new weapon: jagged claws.
Leaping back into the fray, landing atop the lead ghoul, Dawn swing the claws, rending flesh and bones alike as the serration of the blades sawed through and made short work of its dead bones.
A quick spin ripped off the outstretched arms of the ghouls surrounding her, before detaching the claws to her thighs, as the gauntlets fizzled again, as what looked like one handed glaives attached themselves to the gauntlets, before she slammed her forelegs together, bonding the blades into a two bladed glaive, one on each end of the pole.
Whirling the newly created twin-headed glaive, Dawn mowed down the remainder of the main group.
Gasping for air, finally exhausting her anger, she reattached the two blades, emptying the gauntlets of weapons, before detaching the two and reaching for a katana, cutting down the seven crawlers she had made before.
"Don't want to leave a mess for someone else to clean up, now do we?" Dawn said, a sadistic smile creeping across her lips as she snapped the bloodstained blade to the armor.

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