Black Gates: Fallen

Twilight’s rage was beginning to boil over, Nightmare had just betrayed them, she killed Arkantos!

Luna however nudged her, “Play along.” She whispered.

It was then that it hit Twilight, if Arkantos had died, they’d be long gone. Twilight still acted as though rage was consuming her, though she waited. “How… Dare… You…” She growled out firing off an admittedly weak spell at Nightmare.

Though the second alicorn got the idea rather quick that they both knew. “Bah, you think I was just going to let something so weak live? Oh how he extolled virtue and honor upon me… up until I drove my blade through his heart.” She feigned a devious grin.

Daybreaker laughed and her attention shifted back to Twilight and Luna.

The other two mares watched Nightmare make a small gesture as they saw Ark atop the roof of the building he’d been kept in.

“Now… before we were so rudely interrupted…” Nightmare’s attention fell to Twilight.

“Think you can win this time?” Twilight laughed quietly.

“I’ll damn well try.” Nightmare grinned.

Daybreaker blasted away at Luna and Twilight creating a thick cloud of smoke.

Luna and Nightmare dashed forward, though Luna stopped short, and Nightmare kept going right past her.

It was then that a hail of ice shards hit the area around Daybreaker, one slicing her snout as it passed. She yelped and whirled around, taking her attention off of the other three. “YOU!” She growled.

Arkantos glared down at her. “Truth be told Daybreaker?”

“I’m going to kill you!”

“You should’ve already made sure I was dead.” He growled, hitting her in the face with a ball of fire.

Daybreaker roared, it was only a distraction and she knew-

Then she was hit by freezing cold water.

The rain… “THE FUCKING STORM!” She growled out, she started blasting spells at him, trying to destroy him.

Twilight teleported him away, the two smiling as they saw each other again.

“You had me worried, ya know?” Twilight joked quietly, embracing him for a moment.

He returned the embrace, though they were quick to seperate.

“I thought she’d gotten to you too.” Ark sighed. “Thank you for the help.” He grinned, the two turning to face the now (though she was always angry) Daybreaker.

“HOW DARE YOU!” She howled.

“Oh can it you giant bitch.” Luna sighed. “You’re constant yammering is driving me insane.”

“It’s driving us both insane.” Nightmare chuckled.

Now that she was soaked, her fire magic was severely weakened. “Bah…” Daybreaker stepped back and seared all of the water off of herself.

In her moment of distraction, Luna and Nightmare tore open the cloud bank.

“Alright, you think you can channel it Ark?” Twilight asked, now the two alicorns created a wall of magic to defend Ark as he tried.

Twilight took his hand, “Ark?”

First Person:

I gazed up at the dream version of Sol.

Once again I heard the voice calling to me, a language… ancient one that I didn’t, or just couldn’t ever recognize.

It sounded… happy that I was back in it’s sight.

“Ark?” Twilight’s voice called me back and I looked to her.

I only now realized she was holding my hand, this entire night… everything felt so wrong, except for her.

“Please… if yo-”

“Don’t worry Twilight.” I assured, squeezing her hand for a hold on reality. “It’ll be too easy for me to garner Sol’s power.” I looked back up.

This time the voice had fallen silent. Almost as though it was angry.

I took in a deep breath and drew in more power.

Twilight squeezed my hand tighter, “I believe in you.”

I smiled a bit, and closed my eyes.

The heat radiating through me was unlike anything I’d ever felt. It was… glorious.

“NO!” Daybreaker screeched. Though, the sound of her spells trying to destroy the shield faded away. The only thing I really noticed now was Twilight letting go of my hand, almost as if she were in pain.

My attention snapped to her immediately.

“Oh Faust… Arkantos…” She muttered quietly, looking fearfully at me.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

Twilight’s fears were calmed. “You’re… s-still you.” She smiled slightly.

“What do y-” I looked down at my hands.

Twilight’s POV:

I gawked at Arkantos, his armor had changed so rapidly. He’d been consumed by sunlight for a few moments, and I thought as his temperature raised, he was being taken over by something far worse.

The new armor looked so natural on him, it was almost frightening, but hearing his voice, seeing how stunned he was… It wiped away all of that.

“Mean…” He finished his sentence as he looked over what he could see of his body.

“I’ll show you later… alright? Just… we have-”

“A demon to kill.” Arkantos nodded, drawing his sword out. His free arm was bathed in sunlight, unlike anything I’d ever seen.

Then the sun itself dimmed as Daybreaker too took control over it.

I saw Ark recoil a little. “Damn it…”

“Ke-”

“Cut her off and you cut me off!” Ark cut my shout off completely. “We need to overpower her!”

I nodded, “Right!” I took a step beside him. “Lead the way, Prince.” I grinned as Luna and Nightmare now gave stunned glances back at us.

Arkantos gave no heroic speech or call to arms, he only charged. The sunlight began to reform around him almost immediately, startling me as he went from running to mounted atop some sort of animal. The blade shifted to a lance and he burst through the shield as if it wasn’t there.

An idea hit me, I cast a simple voice manipulation spell on him.

He must have felt the magic be cast as now he started shouting at her. “I’m coming for you BITCH!” His voice was gnarled and twisted, and Daybreaker must not have expected it because she dove to the side in fear, the lance barely missed her.

Luna, Nightmare, and I ran to join him. I felt a rush seeing him fighting back against Daybreaker, I’d already discovered, this fight was no longer for him.

He was attempting to save me.

Though… I don’t really need it anymore, I’ll just let him play hero for a bit longer though… no sense in pulling him down to the ground again just yet...