The smaller pegasus looked upwards as I stood a whole head and half taller than him. From his perspective, all he could see was this large predator looming over him going dies fangs bared in a terrifying grin.
The kid held for about three seconds only took a few steps backwards lifting his wings in preparation for flight. I noticed that he had two bands attached to the base of each of his wings. They were made out of a plain piece of steel with two small gemstones set into each. 
 
 'Similar gemstones to the one that the other guy had in his dagger' pausing for a moment I felt a slight magical signature that had laid dormant and almost unnoticeable when it suddenly it grew in presence.
The fearful look on the pegasus’s face disappeared to one of confidence. In a flash of movement, he disappeared from in front of me the now glowing gems leaving streaks in the air. 
 
  Appearing on the other side square with an expected speed I just turn my head slightly time to see him smiling wickedly as he darted forwards.
Using his momentum kicked me with both of his rear hooves lunging forward like a spear, I moved at the last second but was unable to dodge.
Just as his back hooves made contact I went from a look of surprise to a slight smile, in the brief instant this all went down the pegasus noticed this looking mildly confused. 
 
  The force of his blow set in sending me flying forwards, for a brief second the pegasus had a look of victory in his eyes and looked at the position I landed on lounging on my back with my paws behind my head as if this was a relaxing day of beach.
"Thanks for the help, my back has been stiff since I landed." With a relieved sigh as I shifted my spine causing the bones to pop satisfied back into original positions.
I noticed a slight cringe from all the ponies present.   
 
I flipped back upwards into a standing position flexing my tails playfully.
"So you guys use charged gems to improve the base qualities of a person or an object eh. Wouldn't be so bad if you bothered to get decent quality magic items but I'd hardly call you guys wizards, you're little more than amplified thugs." By this point, the look of confidence drained from the Pegasus's face at seeing his attack so easily thwarted. 
 
 "What! Nopony should be able to shrug off a direct hit like that. The rumors about wizards must be true after all" he moved backwards towards his companion his eyes turning towards backup while his head remained fixed in my direction.
 "Yeah, a real wizard works hard to master their own magic and improve their skills. All you guys have done is take a cheap shortcut.
And you forgot to buy the most important augmentation if all you guys wouldn't do is buy cheap relics to try and improve your base abilities. Then you should have got one to give a stronger spine." 
 
 
The Pegasus looked at me with alarming his eyes once again shooting his companion a sideways glance. He backed up a few steps, the earth pony yanked his head free from the ground, a look of pure rage on his face.
I shot a playful smile waved at him from the other side of the square. The stallion picked up his dagger and once again rushed forwards to attack this time wary of a counterattack.
The magically charged gem glowing brighter as he moved forwards.  
 
Sitting down lazily, I waited for him to cross the remaining distance, he was noticeably slower than his partner.
 He paused when he was a few feet away keeping my tails in his field of vision, he jumped forward aiming slash at my neck the farthest vulnerable point from the swaying pillars of fluff when I roll to the side, his blade striking empty space.
The displaced air from his strike was more than I expected and pushed me back a few inches. 
 
‘A strength enhancement eh let see how he handles this’ Using the air from his attack I fanned my tails out to catch the wind and orientate myself horizontally from him, moving forwards and jumping with my front legs at the last second. 
While Flicking the ground with the centre tail and kicking with my hind legs I landed a double back kick to the earth pony sending him sprawling. 
The force from the jump of my front paws sent me in an arc landing upright as the pony was sent in the opposite direction.  
 
The hench pony flew across the square and hit one for the benches, destroying it in the process. 
While he recovers and no doubt planned his next move, I sat down waiting still feeling a little light headed due to the heavy drinking my body still felt a little off.
The second I landed back on four paws nausea overtook me.
I sat on my rump holding my head in my front paws. 
 
 
 There was a quiet creaking sound as the earth pony removed himself from the wreckage of the bench, his fur had a light green glow to it.
A green faceted jewel fixed into a pendant that hangs around his neck was producing it, suddenly the gem shattered and the glow faded. 
 
 
He hadn't suffered any damage from the impact.
Pure rage was etched onto his face as he unsheathed a second blade similar to the first the only noticeable difference was that the guard on this one shaped like two talons pointing towards the blade, the jewel in the pommel began to glow brightly matching the original intensity.
The stallion sprinted forward slashing madly with his blades this time not caring for a particular target.
Pushing my dizziness aside for the moment I sidestepped and dodged his attacks. Now that he was using two daggers the strength enhancement was doubled.
The wind coming from his attacks told me that he wasn't holding anything back. 
 
 
 
 
After I dodged the first few strikes and stepping backwards out of his range he switched the dagger in his right hoof to his mouth so he could move to pursue, Continuing the barrage of strikes.
I dodged and ducked barely escaping each time with a smile on my muzzle.
The frustration his face grew causing him to attack less rationally becoming blinded by his anger. "Just like I told your partner buying a cheap enhanced weapon to skip the effort of learning true magic isn't going to work against me," I told the earth pony while carelessly sidestepping his attacks. 
 
 
 
 
After a few seconds, the headache  worsened, Running out of patience for his feeble attacks. "You should really quit while you're ahead" he lunged forward attempting to cut off my head with a scissor strike.
Instead of dodging this time but my central tail forward, for a split-second he had a look of victory smiling slightly at my perceived stupidity.
It was almost as if time slowed down his blades made contact with the fluffy red tip of my tail.  
 
 
Everything appeared to have stopped for a second but instead of the sight of his blade cutting through my flesh.
It looked as if the two forces had to cancel each other out then the strength enhancement caused the blades to snap unable to stand up to the stress leaving him with two useless hilts.
Returning my tail back to its original position I took a step back smiling. 
 
  The headache and nausea grew worse, lifting a paw to my muzzle uncertainly.
I vaguely noticed the disbelieving looks from every pony present as I emptied my stomach over a nearby hedge.
Once I’d recovered I noticed the stunned look on the stallion's face. he was staring down at his broken blade muttering to himself. 
 "Th-there's no way, what are you when the blade made contact it felt like I was trying to cut through solid steel!"   
 
  Smiling wickedly at the stallion I picked up one of the broken blades that he had dropped adding a red glow to my eyes as I loomed evily over the stallion who backed up a few steps. 
 "As if some badly tempered and poor quality steel like this could ever so much as scratch me, I'm surprised they've held together this" I said tossing the dagger at his feet. 
 
 I glanced around noting quite a few of the towns ponies had heard the fray come out to investigate, watching with wide eyes what they thought would never happen.
The two members of black horn noticed this as well, the now weaponless earth pony sweating nervously.
'We can't appear to look weak in front of these ponies, or we might get others trying to rebel against us.' 
 
  For a second seemed that he might give up, then his eyes turned resentful.
"NO I won't accept this, this is our town there's no way a freak like you is going to stop us" he picked up the broken daggers and tried to draw strength from the dull barely glowing jewels suddenly they fled brighter than ever. 
 
 Seeing what intended to I step forward. "no You don't know how stable the spell is-" he stared me down anger and strain evident on his face "SHUT UP I'M GOING TO WIN THIS NO MATTER WHAT." the gems now glowing blindingly bright obscuring the stallion from view.
The air surrounding us seemed to become slightly electrified causing my fur to stand slightly on and suddenly there was a small explosion as the jewels fractured.

After the light dimmed down and the smoke cleared I saw that the damage had already been done, looking at what once resembled a pony.
The guard of the blade centre fused with his right hoof leaving to pointed steel talon-like objects sticking out of his flesh.
Shards of the blade were embedded in the skin up to his neck, down his left foreleg were shards of the jewels fused into his fur and skin underneath.
If he looked large and muscled before, now he looked almost comical.
His eyes glowed purple matching the colour from the gem shards.

''Crap, a rebound this is bad' Glancing nervously around at the surrounding ponies I saw that his partner also had an equally shocked and disgusted look on his face.
The creature seemed to have lost all coherent thought. Casting an illusion spell I sent an apparition of myself jogging forward the beast, while I fell back to Star.
"Hey, you need to clear these ponies back this could get dangerous.
" I turned back to see the illusion shaking his rump at the enraged stallion whilst flipping him off.

"That might not distract him for long, I didn't put much magic into it as soon as you touch it, it will dissipate illusion."
Star stood there shocked-mouth slightly agape "but what happened to him?" Sighing I faced him looking him in the eye "It's called a magical rebound, it happens when you overtax an enchantment and try to bring out more power than the medium it's bound to can handle. Now listen, kid, these ponies need you"

"I don't think I asked before, do have any kind of magical powers being the usual unicorn levitation." Looking at the teenage colt questioning, he glanced away uneasily.
"My family has passed down the art of heavenly body magic for generations but I've never been a strong magic user." He said scuffing the floor of his front hooves nervously.
Pausing for a moment the name seemed familiar, but I couldn't recall it.

"The names seems familiar but can't quite place it, just remember that in most cases the strength of your magic is dependent on your resolve so the only thing holding it back is yourself." His face looked slightly panicked for a second then relaxed at my response.
"O-ok and try my best to keep the town ponies out of the way." Nodding at him I look back to the battle seeing my fake counterpart still harassing the mindless stallion.

The illusion was too slow however and as it sidestepped edge of its hoof came into contact with the kind of image causing to fade.
The mutated stallion looked around stupidly trying to find where his enemy had gone, his gaze fell upon me.
He snorted angrily charging towards me with killing intent. Likewise, I ran forwards to prevent getting too close to the crowd, leaping at the last minute and turning into biped form using the force of the jump to my advantage as I landed a solid punch to the right side of his face.

This brought charged stuttering to a stop, but did not push him back as far as I had expected, standing on two legs I braced forwards.
His body slowly managed to push forwards causing me to lose ground. Angered by the attack but mostly undamaged, he struck with one of his own front hooves, managing to block at the last second I was sent backwards if few feet.
'Damn strength is increased this much!'

Recovering from his blow used sweeping attack my tails to knock off his hooves, as long as he had a firm stance moving him would be difficult.
As soon as his hooves left the ground I scored an uppercut under his jaw causing him to fly upwards from the strength of my attack. I also felt something crack at the impact.
The force of the strike caused him to fly in the opposite direction towards some now panicked onlookers.' Crap too much power into that one. Stupid, bad fox.
The point is to save the ponies not crush them.' Suddenly there was a flash in the corner of my eye and I saw stargazer move a lot quicker than it should be possible he was covered in a whitish aura emanating from his horn.
He grabbed the onlookers and the stallions path and pulled them out of the way.

The stallion continued his trajectory until it came into contact with a wall of the other side of the square which broke on impact collapsing over him leaving a pile of rubble in its wake.
Though the rubble began to shake as the crazed pony tried to free himself.
Using the moment of distraction, I rushed over to stargazer who now looked noticeably tired from his use of magic.
'Yes that's where it's from, he's using the same magic as Jalal from Fairy Tail embodying himself the power of the stars. Though it's noticeably weaker' stargazers breathing slightly heavier but he looked pleased with himself.

"Okay we need to finish this quickly, I think I have a way of doing that," I said pulling pink Gem from a pocket that was about the size of an egg. He looked at it curiously.
"A long time ago I imbued this jewel with a space-time warping spell, it can capture and store any object of about a pony size and hold it in a sub-dimension. This guy will likely about its limit"

"You know space-time magic? I thought all your skills were illusion based" Stargazer questioned. "Well, you see kitsune can learn and master many different kinds of magic and abilities. Beyond learning a basic space-time warping spell.
I didn't go any further down that tree of magic instead devoting more of my time to learn mastery of illusion and other things. The capturing spell is more effective the more the target is weakened"

I turned around addressing the towns ponies "I have a way to achieve that every pony but it will require all of you to clear out of the way."
Everypony looked panicked for a second and took a few steps back. "Might want to go a little further," I said turning back to the enemy as he extricated himself from the rubble.

Now he was fully free from the pile of rocks he had a fair few scrapes and bruises though they didn't seem to slow him down much at all.
Stepping forward to meet him in the centre of the square I noticed at the corner of my eye that his partner still watching from the sidelines.
The beast stared me down his glowing eyes focused on mine, there was nothing in them but the desire for destruction.

I Returned to my normal form. He was about two meters away, he let out an unintelligible roar, then jumped forward to attack.
Expecting this I made my move, suddenly my body grew massively in size I stood just taller than the buildings of the square while the stallion was still airborne my fist and met him from above instantly slamming him into the ground creating a small crater and sending cracks lancing through the floor.

The ground around the towns ponies shuddered from the force of the blow.
I returned to my normal size as the dust cleared watching the shocked expressions of everypony present.
Moving to the edge of the crater I looked down and saw what was once a pony crumpled in a heap.
His front right leg was clearly broken and yet several cuts all over his body that bled profusely even so the stallion still tried to rise once and fell back to the floor.

"That should tame you a little," I said withdrawing the crystal once again, by now plenty of towns ponies are gathered around the edge of the hole to see what had happened.
The Hench pony Pegasus looked extremely nervous. I through the crystal down in front of the stallion.
There was a flash of pink light that encompassed the stallion he was pulled into the jewel, leaving the gem glowing brightly on the floor rocking back and forth then it stopped and the gem faded back to its normal colour.

For a few seconds there was nothing but silence, within the first cheers rose from the crowd.
This was the first time they had any reason to hope for a long time.
Sighing, slightly tired from the magic my stomach growled suddenly.
It was so loud that some of the towns ponies jump to the side thinking that the fiend had escaped only to laugh louder once they realised it was coming from me.
'I guess it has been over 1000 years since my last meal.'

In the commotion, the pegasus tried to slip away. Stargazer quickly grabbed one of my front paws pulling me in a direction to pursue.
"Come on Ro'ord we need to follow him to their Guildhall and finish this." The use of magic and vertigo brought on by the sudden change in size wasn't doing much to help me recover from the effects of last night now adding hunger to the list only made things worse.

On the way out the square, we passed a cart full of freshly made baked goods that had a remarkably survived undamaged. Pulling away from Star I moved towards the cart, "What are you doing we need to go or, or we'll lose him."
He grabbed onto a few of my back tails pulling me away from the cart. "Hey come on I haven't eaten in a thousand years, and on top of that my fur is covered in mud from when I landed."

Stargazer rolled his eyes and continued to pull me in the direction of the pegasus went.
"Stop being so overly exaggerating nobody knows where the Guildhall is so if we don't follow him we won't get there in time."
I surrendered staring ahead at the tasty treats gripping the ground with my paws and pouting at the unicorn. He proceeded to drag me until we reach the edge of town.
(I wasn’t going to make it easier on someone who got in the way of my meal.)
I could see the pegasus moving away quickly towards the forest.

After freeing my tails from the colts grip I shook myself down to dispel any dust that gathered on my belly while I was being dragged along.
“Calm down we aren’t going to lose them, Haven’t you been taught how to sense magical energy yet?” The unicorn froze in place looking sheepish.
“No my older brother was the magical prodigy, he got all the attention from dad and was sent off to Canterlot. We never heard from them, that was seven years ago.”

Pausing for a moment I pulled him into a hug with my tails. “Hey, you’ve definitely got skills you saved those pony’s back there.”
He looked up at me for a moment the bitterness on his face receding.
“The trick to sensing magic is to calm your mind, you are already half way there by feeling and manipulating the raw magic inside you.”

He let out a breath and calmed down.
“Good now take the feeling of focusing on your own magic and push it outwards like a sixth sense the more you practice the easier it will become until you don’t even notice that you are doing it.”
He furrowed his brow extending this feeling away from himself.
Suddenly feeling a presence next to him the magic presence felt cold dark and foreboding, Shivering slightly in response to it.

“Wh-what is that coming from you.” I looked at him curiosity seeing that he seemed a little disturbed.
“Oh right that, you see kitsune are tricksters specialising in illusion and dark magic. Guess I forgot to turn my swag off.”

His magic diminished until it was almost unnoticeable, but before it faded completely there was a second signal hidden under the first.
It was only for a second but Star felt the intensity of it burning brightly, it was unlike anything he’d felt before.

With both of the powers gone all that was left was the faint signature from the pegasus’s enhancements moving west.
“So, you know which way to go right.” Ro’ord’s voice shocked me back to reality.

“Yeah, this way right,” He said as he walked in the direction the Pegasus had taken choosing not to mention the strange occurrence.
I followed his lead and we walked for a time in silence. Until my stomach growled angrily.

“So Ro’ord what did you mean by Haven’t eaten in a thousand years? It looks like you’ve been on the road for some time from the dust and mud caked onto your fur, I would have thought that you would take care of your coat.

You seem like the prim and neat type.” Looking at him frowning I laughed “The only thing I’m pristine with is my crafting because I had one hell of a stubborn teacher if it’s no less than perfect it go’s in the scrap.”

“And I meant what I said it’s been a thousand years since my last meal.
I’ve been bound in a prison for over a thousand years caught between the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon.
I was unable to move but strangely the magic holding me provided me with air and suspended my need to eat. I was finally released yesterday evening.
I took the express elevator on the way down.”

Star gazer looked bewildered.
“Well that confirms it, you must be crazy you would have to be to come up with all that.”
I smiled slightly at him. ‘Can’t blame him I wouldn’t believe it either if it was me.’
Suddenly the energy signature that they were both following disappeared up ahead. Causing both of them to pause.
"Okay, this likely means that their Guildhall is up ahead. and shielded from magical perception, probably a countermeasure against any guards that may come sniffing around."

"Now that the Pegasus has headed back into the Guildhall held truly tell the others of what happened.
We have to storm the place now we are going to rescue my mother" Stargazer sprinted forward in the direction the energy signature had disappeared with the sire followed hot on his tail.

About five minutes down the path behind some large trees and bushes there was a large stone and wooden building built on the side of a rocky outcrop in the middle of the forest.
This was simply built and decorated but it also looked sturdy.
'That explains what they did with all the ponies that weren't returned' looking to the side of the house if you a few metres away they appeared to be a large mound of freshly disturbed earth, I looked away trying not to think about it.

Star saw it too and immediately ran towards the large oak doors of the building with renewed vigour.
Relatives against trying to push it open I slowly moved beside him placing a paw on the wood.
There was a slight resistance to it my paw didn't completely meet the surface.
"This door as a protection spell against it is no way you're going to be able to break it, plus you're going to need to conserve your magic."

Changing to my bipedal form I gently shifted him aside with one of my tails.
"Don't worry about it, I'll just knock."
Raising my right fist and knocked on the door three times, on the third one putting enough force into the blow to splinter the wood and push the doors from their housings to go flying inwards.
'Seems haven't bothered getting any higher-quality protection magic, but the same as the gems in their weapons.'

On the other side of the door, there was a large group of various different pony races each with equally surprised looks on their faces.
Several of them had been crushed by the falling doors are still about twenty-five in the main hall.
I saw the Pegasus we had been tailing disappearance are one of the back hallways they panicked expression on his face.
Star gazer looked slightly nervous at the large group of enemies recovering from the initial shock.

I strolled forwards into the Guildhall like I owned it.
"Hey, guys how health plan?" About fifteen of them charged forward pulling out various weapons.
the ones remained all seemed to have various ranged weapons, bangles, and bracelets that had cheap gems fitted into them.
shooting weak magical blasts at the enemy. I decked the pony at the front of the charge sending him sprawling backwards taking a few down a tangled pile of limbs.

"Apparently it's great!" Just before the barrage of magical blasts hit.
I spin around deflecting them with the spin of my tails firing them back into the crowd knocking a few more things down after a moment couple of them covered getting back to their hooves, this time, staring me down the caution thinking about how to proceed.
This time, I charged forwards aiming towards the back hallway that I'd seen the Pegasus disappeared into knocking any pony aside who stood in my way.

"We don't have time to deal with them." Shouted Star above the sound of the fray.
I looked back at him as we neared the tunnel.
"Don't worry, will be fine."
Star turned around just in time to see me throwing something of my shoulder. It was the jewel that contained the mutated stallion.
"Hey guys, I think you misplaced this".

soon as the gem hit the floor it shattered in a flash of blinding light.
the raging beast freed from its prison. For a second the monster just stood there as if the surroundings brought back some of his memories.
Then without a second thought, it launched itself at the closest pony and began him to shreds.
While they were fighting their former guildmate we slipped into the tunnel hearing only the screams of combat at our backs.

The hallway continued past the confines of the guild hall.
The hallway changed from Wood and cobble to the natural cave structure it was lit by small lanterns lining the walls of the cave.
It continued for about ten meters, then it opens into a large cavern.
It barely resembled a cave the floor was covered with a plush carpet and there were several fine looking cabinets full of books chests full of treasures likely stolen from the village.
There was a large four-poster bed in the far corner of the room in another corner there were several small looking cages, barely able to hold a pony.

Most of them were empty except for a few rags.
Near the bed was a writing desk and a large comfortable looking chair.
On which sat a dark blue unicorn with a white and red mane. In front of him was a small pile of smouldering bones and ash, and tethered to the side of the writing desk was a weary-looking mare with several bruises covering her coat.

Seeing this brought my earlier and back to the surface.
in my gaze rose to the stallions hatefully meeting his cool empty eyes. He leaned forward to speak "oh yes, one of my subordinates just finished informing me of your actions.
Unfortunately, we don't accept failure here at the black horn Guild" he gestured towards the pile of ashes.

Star saw the mare tethered to the desk his eyes instantly widening in recognition.
"Mother, you bastard what did you do to her!" The first time since entering the room stallion's eyes left me to look at Star Gazer with contempt.
"Well you see the boys and I go to all the trouble of protecting your little town against dragons and all manner of magical creatures. And when they felt they weren't receiving proper compensation for their actions we decided to make an example of her.
They may have roughed up a little bit" he said smiling cruelly.

Star took a step forward rage evident across his face.
"And then you went and missed our generous deadline even going so far as to fight back against the ponies here to protect you.
Not to worry her physical injuries are not her biggest problem at the moment the poison will do its work shortly" who spoke again, this time, his muzzle turning into a wide grin.

Suddenly Star glowed brightly in his whitish aura that he moved forward to rescue his mother tearing the tether from her neck.
I began moving towards them as well seeing the stallion smile turn to the enraged expression. As he reached a strike Star his armoured hooves glowing red hot.
I got there in time to intercept landing a punch to the right side of his muzzle causing him to go flying to the side of the room.

Once he recovered from the initial surprise of the blow he stood up.
"How dare you, I am Fell Fire master of this guild.
You just signed your own death warrants" he yelled as a reddish aura gathered around his horn which burst forth into a large pillar flames straight for Star and Jasmine who are trying to get to the entrance.

Seeing that they had little chance to evade the attack Star tried to protect his mother. Jumping at the last second I managed to intercept the pillar flames before they struck home, causing a large explosion to rip through the room as they hit.
"Ro'ord NO" Star yelled holding a hoof out helplessly.
The room was filled with Fell Fire's laughter. . .

Which died down there was a new sound filling the room.
In the middle of the burning room stood the fox his fur unharmed by the flames.
The fire was all flowing into his mouth until they were all consumed with mighty Swallow and a sigh all evidence of the magical fire vanished.

I wiped the corner of my muzzle with the back of my hand leaving a trail of sparks.
"Thanks for the meal." I stepped towards Fell Fire who backed away fearfully.
Star once again felt the second magic that had been concealed behind Ro'ords normal magic. Instead of feeling cold this one had a burning warmth to it, but also an untamed savagery.
Walking towards Fell Fire at a slow pace.
"So you're supposed to defend this town against Dragons huh, well let's see how you fare. My name is Ro'ord Flamebringer I'm the Fire Dragonslayer."

Author's Note

ok sorry for taking so long with this one i made it a bit longer than usual. I'm back at uni now and hopefully a part time job so it might be a while until I can update this again. thanks for all the support.