...And Into the Fire
Chapter 2: Take Back The Castle!
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAs Starlight made her way to Twilight's castle, she started wondering about Sweetie Belle's capabiities as a robot.
"Are you really like he said you were?"
"WELL AS A ROBOT, I HAVE MACHINE GUNS AND ROCKET-PROPELLED GRENADES (RPG). ALL OF WHICH FIRE AT TWENTY MILES PER SECOND, AND I CAN POP THEM OUT AND BACK IN AT ANYTIME. I CAN EVEN FEEL THEM LIKE LIMBS."
"Is that what you meant when you said you feel strangely like a robot?"
"WELL, YES."
Sweetie smiled,
"I ALSO HAVE CLOAKING FIELDS, THAT CAN BE ACTIVATED JUST AS EASILY."
"Seems kind of over-the-top, if you ask me."
"SO IS EVERYTHING ELSE THAT I HAVE SEEN IN THIS WASTELAND."
When they entered the castle, Starlight's first thought was: He was right, there are griffons everywhere in here!. All of the griffons were covered in scars, at the entrance there were three griffons wielding Sub-Machine Guns. Starlight immediately pulled out her Plasma-Epee, and blocked every bullet fired at her and Sweetie; slicing through the griffons, blood spraying out of them and guts falling out.
"WOAH! YOU HAVE A THREE-DIRECTIONAL PLASMA-EPEE!?"
"Er... yes, why?"
"THERE ARE ONLY FOUR PLASMA-EPEES IN GENERAL! AND THE ONLY OTHER THREE-DIRECTIONAL ONE IS OWNED BY TWIGHT!"
"I didn't know these were rare! This was just next to the recorded message that Twilight left behind!"
They moved on to the castle's hallways, griffons everywhere! Griffons with assault rifles, griffons with shotguns, griffons with grenades! Even with Starlight slicing them all up AND Sweetie making swiss cheese out of them and blowing them up, more of them starting to come out the doors!
"YEESH! HOW MANY GRIFFONS EVEN ARE THERE!?"
Eventually they cleared the hallway of griffons, it took until then for them to realize that there was blood and intestines everywhere, the bones of the dead griffons were completely exposed.
"WELL! WE SURE MADE A MESS!"
"You think!?"
"IF I WASN'T A ROBOT RIGHT NOW, I'D BE THROWING UP."
Once they got to the main room, they found a mutated griffon, it was big enough to take up a quarter of the room!
"What!? Is!? That!?"
"A GRIFFON BEHEMOTH, AN ARMY OF A MILLION COULDN'T STOP IT."
It roared so loud that Starlight's ears stared to ring. Sweetie Belle started cloaking, attacking it without it being able to see her, whereas Starlight tried teleporting around it for attacks; even casting magic wouldn't work. It kept clawing at them, sometimes piercing the walls.
What do I do?
Starlight, at one point, tried teleporting behind one of the doors. Breathing heavily, she noticed a spellbook with a bookmark in it.
"Maybe this will help."
Starlight opened the book to the page that had the bookmark. And she found just what she needed; A Killing Curse! After she read how to do the spell, she decided to keep the book, and opened the doors.
"IT'S NO USE! IT JUST CAN'T SEEM TO DIE!"
Sweetie was still cloaked,
"I just now got what we need!"
"I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT!"
Starlight galloped up to the Griffon Behemoth, it turned to her. And just as it was raising it's claw to strike, Starlight waved her horn and yelled:
"Ego Sum Mortem!!!"
And a beam of siezure-inducing green lightning shot out of her horn and directly into the Griffon Behemoth's heart, stopping it right there. It kept roaring in agony, crippling down until it was dead. And the lightning stopped, with Starlight falling down due to having just drained herself of her energy.
"WOAH!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?"
Sweetie uncloaked,
"I casted a killing curse on it, I found it bookmarked in a book that I found in the other room."
"WOW! THE POWER TO KILL ANYTHING! LET'S HEAD BACK."
"Okay."
Starlight got back up, regaining her energy. The castle went back to the cyan state it was before.
QUEST COMPLETED: TAKE BACK THE CASTLE!
Author's Note
I forgot to mention before, that I made Starlight the main protagonist. Unlike most of the time.
"Ego Sum Mortem"? How about "Avade Kedavre"? Yeah that's better.
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