The Dark Army Rises

Chapter 8: The End

The group of friends had heard one lie revealed already, but Rainbow Dash decided it wouldn't hurt to say what the Elements were and how she got them. They all looked at the different necklaces, all dark and spooky. To add to the overall creepiness of the set, the were actual skulls on them, put in the place you'd normally see jewels. Rarity complained at the grotesque nature of the necklaces. They all wondered what was what. Then Rainbow Dash touched one. A spirit appeared and spoke one word.

"Greed," it said raspily.

Rainbow Dash touched another.

"Anger," it said.

"Wait!" Twilight said. "These are all for us! Their the opposites of our personalities! Their what we became when Discord changed us! Rarity's is the Greed, Fluttershy's is the Anger, Pinkie's would be Cyniscism, Rainbow Dash's would be Selfishness, Applejack's would be Dishonesty, and mine would be Failure! Rainbow, touch all of them!"

Rainbow Dash touched all of the necklaces, and everypony grabbed theirs until there was one left. The tiara. Rainbow Dash touched it and it spoke.

"Selfishness," it spoke.

Rainbow Dash was astonished.

'I'm the one responsible for carrying them all into battle?!' she thought.

They all donned their grotesque apparel. Rainbow Dash looked back at her friends. She hoped that this would be it. She hoped that this fight would be easy, that it it wouldn't take too long, that they could even stand up for more than a few minutes at a time. The fatigue was getting to everypony.

They were all breathing heavily as the stress, huger, thirst, and fatigue got to them. She raised her hoof as she did before their first charge.

"3, 2, 1, GO!" she yelled as they all began to bolt for Canterlot.

They arrived in a matter of minutes, and saw the Dark Army standing over the ruins. Rainbow Dash came down to the ground so they could connect the Elements of Chaos. The Dark Army took notice of them, and turned to look. They all stopped and began to focus on the powers stored inside the Elements. They focused it for one blast. It hit the Dark Army like a sledge hammer. They kneeled down in pain. They got back up.

The friends focused for one more attack, but a large hoof came to sweep them away. Rainbow Dash saw the attack before all the others, and flew away. Fluttershy wondered what she was doing and saw the attack too. She also dodged. The rest of them were not so lucky.

They all flew off, smacking into a building.

"NO!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

Her friends were probably dead, which made her anger flare unlike ever before. Then it all became a haze as she began to attack the Dark Army ferociously. She attacked with her Element, with her hooves, her wings. After a while, the Element began to glow as her Loyalty invaded the tiara and mixed with the Selfishness inside. She unleashed it, and the bolt went straight into the Dark Army.

They exploded in a flash of shadow. Rainbow Dash began to attack something else. It felt alive, but she didn't care. All she wanted was to kill, something to remove her anger, her sadness, her hurt...

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Rainbow Dash awoke in the Ponyville hospital. She didn't know what had happened since the charge. She was then informed what had happened. She looked over to her right, and in a sling, with scars all over her face and body, bruises all over also, was Fluttershy, looking back. Rainbow Dash began to cry as she realized what she did. On the bright side, she never had a psychological episode again.