Dragon Helm

“I've never heard of an ash storm before.” Winter said, drinking from his large water flask. They were making progress for sure. The battle had only caused them minor injuries, and they were more than ready for another conflict, though the valley seemed rather clear of enemies. The jagged rocks around them jutted in all directions. Plateaus and ridges began to come in sight, giving evidence that they were approaching something that was once a rocky terrain. While it was still rocky, the terrain was corrupted beyond recognition of what it once was.

“Man, how long has this corruption been going on?” Diamond asked as they began to climb another incline to a slightly higher elevation. “Something like this would take years to form.”

“Or an especially powerful spell for it to change it quickly.” Spark interjected. “Either way, it would need to have been done with great precision. Look here, the land is becoming far darker.” He said as the ground seemed to become something like black, solidified tar. It was rough, and it smelled of extreme sulfur. “We must be getting close.”

“Look!” Grem pointed ahead as they walked. There lied what looked like a mansion. Although the exterior had a great deal of wear, it didn't seem to affect the inside of it. They got out of the harsh environment of the ash land and were finally able to breath easy. Sweat gleamed on their brows as they removed their helmets and other exterior garments.

“Get this crap off of me.” Fable whispered under his breath as he pulled off his black armor. He and Grem had the worst time of it. Their heavy, black armor absorbed the sunlight. The mansion they entered was stuffy, as if no one had lived there for several years. The air was so close together that it actually made the heat a little more concentrated for a moment. The sweaty red stallion was ready to find the darkest room in the whole mansion at first, as the windows showed in that dull, gray ash that allowed the heat from the sun.

However, that’s when all of them felt the smooth, cool air flow through to them and bring forth the most amazing feeling of luxury. The cold breeze emitted from Winter. His horn glowed and brought forth a delightful wintery aura that spread outward into the room.

“Oh, Winter, you’re magnificent!” Grem said as she held her arms and wings open in front of him. She was clad only in cloth material now, her armor taken off of her and added to her inventory.

“That’s a neat trick!” Voltage said as she too took off her armor and basked in the wonderful relief that the azure unicorn brought forth to them. “How long can you hold that spell?”

“It’s a low level aura, it allows you to walk on ember land so long as you’re close to me. This should make the temperature in the mansion a little more bearable once all of us have cooled off. If it gets too hot again, just let me know. Spark, do you have something similar?”

“I don’t, actually I have the opposite. I’m mostly specced for fire and lightning. So once we go to a frozen tundra, I’ll be able to help out there.” Spark smiled and winked at Winter who rolled his eyes, chuckling.

Diamond started looking around the mansion’s front room. There were two stairwells on either side of the room, both of them leading to two different ends of the same hallway, which passed over the second floor. In the center of the hallway upstairs, there was a second staircase which led up. From the look of the outside, the house actually seemed a bit smaller than it was perceived now. Dust was thick on the surfaces, bookshelves, cabinets and tables all throughout the front room. In the center of the far wall, there was a very large fireplace.

The whole thing looked so rustic, so stylized that the rest of the companions started looking around.

“What is this place?” Grem asked and the rest of them shrugged.

“There's no enemies or anything here. So I guess we should just scavenge what we can and get back on the road. Travel in groups so we don't get ambushed.” Diamond said, and everyone nodded.

Fable went with Winter, thinking he would be the perfect air conditioner if he needed it. Not to mention he was a great spellcaster to his sword. Spark went with Voltage while Diamond went with Grem and they all took different parts of the house.

Grem and Diamond checked down a long corridor as they ascended the stairs. It had doors all up and down on both sides. They opened doors to empty rooms, broken, rundown furniture and cobwebs. That was until they came to something resembling a dungeon. In one of the thirty some odd doors there was a large stone room.

“Whoa.” Grem said as she entered.

“What the hell is this doing here?” Diamond asked no one in particular as he ambled inside along with her. They looked around at all of the chains hanging along the walls attached to the ceiling. There was very little light all around the dungeon until Diamond Sword illuminated his horn.

As he did, he turned around to see what Grem was doing, but she was gone.

“Grem?” He turned around all the way, searching for her. “Grem!”

The fully clad armored unicorn followed her brother as his staff lit the way down the dark hallway of the mansion. The light from their horns did very little to cut through the unnatural black in front of their eyes. The deeper they went through the house, the more concerned they both grew.

“I'm telling you, this is the place we were supposed to go.” Voltage whispered as she kept her eyes peeled for any movement around them.

“Then where are the mobs? Where are the vampires? Where’s the crystal we're supposed to find?” Spark argued as he also looked around. “This place is hollow. We'll be lucky if we find some rusty weapons.”

“It's the place.” She concluded. “It's pulsing with mystery. It's perfect.”

“Hooooly shit!” Spark gasped as he lifted his staff farther in front of them. There gleamed a bright, sparkly bit of coin, and upon further inspection, there came a chest full of gold bits. “Look at all of that.”

Voltage's eyes bulged a little at the spectacle, but she controlled herself. Her horn glowed bright as she looked downward toward the front of their hooves. Sure enough, there was a very intricate trap laid out before them. The tile in front of them was a good yard long and took up the whole floor from them to the chest.

She took a deep breath and began to disarm it.

“You sure you got this?” Spark watched her as he stood back. She carefully lifted the bottom up to reveal the ropes that controlled the trap.

“I put some skill points into trap disarming, so I should at least be able to stave off the trap for a moment. Just need to be care--" Suddenly her finger flicked over one of the handles and the ropes all started to move. “That's a high level trap---DAAAHHH!!” The floor below her opened up as she fell through.

“Voltage!” He shouted. He was far out of reach to stop her, and the door closed before he could cast anything. He looked at the treasure, scoffed and turned back. He would go down the stairs to the lower levels. He ran as fast as he could through the darkness.

Winter lit the way for the two of them. Fable kept his sword at the ready and his eyes glowed green with dark vision. With the two magic abilities combined, Fable could see perfectly. They found themselves in what looked like a luxury resort. All of the rooms were fully furnished with large beds, beautiful wall decorations and all of the modern comforts of a fantasy world. However, there was no light to speak of. Everything was still and lifeless.

Then there came a much larger room. The kind of room you would consider a rec room or even a small library. This one had the largest bed they had ever seen and a roaring fireplace on the opposite end.

“Man, this place is awesome.” Fable said, watching all of the pictures on the walls and wonderful bookshelves as they were illuminated by the fire. “I could vacation in a place like this.”

“Yeah, me too.” After a moment, Fable and Winter looked at one another. They blinked in the awkward moment, then went back to looking around. “We should probably get going. Looks like there's nothing here.”

“Yeah, not even a cup of death.” Fable blue skyed.

“Wait, did you just say a cup--" That's when they heard a squeal from above them and the ceiling opened up. Down came Voltage onto the bed, bouncing twice before finally settling down.

“Volt?” Both of them said as they ran to her side and saw that she was sweating, trying to catch her breath.

“Oh, hey guys.” Voltage said as she sat up in the bed. “What's up?” She was pouring sweat as if she had run a marathon.

“What happened?” Winter asked, lighting up his hand with his blue energy and waving it over her face to cool her off. She cooed and put her gauntlet on his cheek.

“I don't know. I was disarming a trap and the floor opened up. I fell through a narrow tunnel and it was so hot! Like, sweltering hot! I gotta get this off, help me out.” She said as she started taking off her armor. The fireplace in the room did not help her situation. She stripped off her platemail and started flapping her cloth shirt in the front.

Voltage plopped down on the bed again. Winter continued to cool her to the point where her nipples began to poke through her fabric. Both of them looked at this and then looked at each other.

“Are you feeling better?” Fable asked and she started rubbing up his chestplate to his cheek. His eyes widened as she gripped his chin.

“It was such a rush. I loved it!” Voltage fancied herself a serious gamer. The high notes she hit in gaming came from difficulty and overall victory. She won contests, conquered goals and completed games for the absolute thrill and conquest! It was intoxicating, and the fact that she was in the presence of two young studs was not helping her disposition.

She leaned over to Fable and kissed him square on the lips. Her mouth pressed tight against his and her tongue began to lick his lips. With one hand, she began to unlace his armor. With her other hand, she reached down and cupped Winter’s crotch with a firm grip. Fable couldn't help but get into the kiss. His hand gripping the back of her red and blue mane.

Winter looked down at her hand as she fondled his cock and balls. It took no time at all to get him hard as a diamond. She reached under his robe and brought out his blue spotted cock.

“Wow.” She moaned as Fable’s hand reached up her shirt and caressed her rock solid nipples of her orange body. Both stallions were naked in no time flat and Voltage stroked both of their cocks without hesitation as they sat on either side of her. “I've been wanting to test drive these for a while.” She grinned up at the two of them with her gray eyes.

With that, her muzzle engulfed Winter's enormous dick. Her mouth was ever so skillful, and her tongue lashed his cockhead with great accuracy. Winter leaned back on the bed as he enjoyed her masterful fellatio. He wanted to ask where she learned to use her mouth like that but he didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, so to speak.

Fable watched as she got onto Winter and her rump was pointed toward him. He couldn't help himself. He tugged her cloth shorts down to expose her very round ass. Below her butt was a very wet and open pussy. He took a moment to admire her cutie mark of three dark blue lightning bolts before he started to rub her pussy with two fingers. She was dripping. Her pussy tightened at the touch of his fingers and she moaned against Winter's dong.

The red pegasus felt her hips move along with his fingers. Her whimpers begged for him to rub her harder. He couldn't wait anymore. He had to spread her ass cheeks and slide his cock into her straight away. She felt him push with his thick girth and Winter felt it too as she sucked his dick harder. The azure unicorn watched as she gazed at him. Her tongue caressing his shaft, over his mid ring and down to his testicles, sucking the flimsy skin of his scrotum.

She rocked her hips against Fable Prose as he started fucking her how she liked it. Hard and fast was the name of the game. His cock reached deep and assaulted her cervix as she lavished on the rock hard penis in her mouth. She began to emit muffled high pitched squeals with each thrust as she came. She felt glorious! Voltage felt tremors all through her body as she stared lovingly at Winter.

“Fable!” She said as she pulled the dick out of her mouth and looked back at him. He slowed down to a leisurely pace as he started to pant.

“Yeah?”

Voltage pulled Winter down below her, moving to where he was perfectly set below her. As she positioned Winter, Fable’s dick rubbed along the side of his and his eyes widened a bit. The two stallions shared a look before Fable pulled out of Voltage as if nothing happened.

“Mmmm.” Voltage hummed, content. “Would you be a dear, and get my ass for me?” She batted her eyelashes back at the pegasus, who watched as she slid Winter’s cock inside of her from on top of him and began to fuck him. Fable watched as Winter’s cock disappeared and reappeared from inside of the orange unicorn mare. He was hypnotized by the spectacle and couldn’t seem to turn away.

After a moment, though, he snapped out of his trance and mounted Voltage from behind. His cock was thoroughly wet from fucking her eager pussy. Her moan from the anal penetration was enormous! Double penetration was not at all among her expertise, but she had wanted to try it for some time.

None of that mattered at that moment, though. The two lively stallions fucked her in synch with one another as if this were second nature to them. Winter met Voltage in a deep, tongue-filled kiss as the two of them fucked her with their very long dicks. She had never felt so full in her life. It was a shame Spark couldn’t be here to partake, but the gleaming idea that these two wouldn’t mind him joining started to occur to her. Again, it was hard to think about these things when two manly hard ons were assaulting her at a mile a minute. She tore through yet another orgasm, every sensation tingling through her entire body.

Fable’s hands gripping her ass, and Winter’s lips against hers, her tits against his chest, and Fable’s sweat dripping onto her back as he fucked her ass mercilessly; all of it created ripples through her body as she came for the second time. That orgasm triggered yet another one. At this point she was starting to see sound waves.

Just as she was reaching a point of zen, there came a huge burst of warm, sticky semen in her pussy. Winter was huffing and puffing twice as fast as he was pushing into her as he squirted sweet sperm into her quim. Just as he was on his seventh and last ejaculation, in came Fable with another huge wad of cum pumping into her ass. Her moans kept rising and falling through the process of both of their orgasms, especially since neither of them were slowing down.

“Y-you guys!” Voltage started to say as they continued to plow both of her very sensitive holes, crashing her through yet another orgasm. “You guys are beasts!”

“And you’re sure you’re okay?” Spark asked Grem as he had found her in a dungeon chamber. In his efforts to find Voltage, he had found the gray bat pony chained to the ceiling against a wall in a dark dungeon. For some reason, it was getting ridiculously hot in that place. It felt like someone was preheating an oven the farther they went down into the chambers below the very large house. Grem told him that she had no idea how she got there, nor why all of her clothes were off, but she figured it had something to do with the ridiculously hot climate.

Spark started to look for her armor in that chamber but then she stopped him with her foot.

“Hey, don’t worry about that right this moment. Help me get down.” Grem said, however there was no panic in her voice at all. In fact, being chained to the ceiling with her clothes gone, in the presence of such a hunky stallion seemed to be just what she always wanted. Many women hated the idea of being the damsel in distress. However, there are a great number of mares who fantasized about being rescued by a knight in shining armor. While she figured it would be Diamond Sword who came to her aid, Spark was a definite welcome alternative.

Spark looked at her, noting that her nipples were especially pointy as she blushed. He looked up at the chains and thought about melting the metal, however, melted metal would cause more problems than it fixed. As a wizard, his physical strength was next to weakling status. In fact, Grem would probably have better luck pulling the chains out herself.

He reached up to the chains and started to pull on them a little. They were chained pretty good, it seemed. The links were solid and thick. It would take a warrior type or something similar to even attempt such a strength roll. However, that’s when Grem grabbed both of his hands and pulled him into a kiss. Her blush only grew as he kissed her back. Not bothering to ask what was going on, he knew very well what was going on. In fact, he found it pretty humorous that their positions seemed to be switched from when last they had a night such as this. She hummed her approval and smiled at him as they broke the kiss.

“It would be so unruly and inappropriate for you to take advantage of me in such a bound state.” Grem’s face looked away, and her tits bounced as she shifted balance onto one of her feet. “How dare you be so lewd with a woman in trouble!” Grem opened one eye toward him as the smile clearly never left her face.

“You mean like this?” Spark said as he put two of his hands on one of her breasts and began to lick all over the nipple. The captive bat pony started to breath a little faster as his tongue caressed her areola and stimulated her mammary gland. “Or like this?” He started to suck on her nipple, rubbing his teeth very gently over it.

“Oh! How naughty! So lewd!” Grem squirmed a little bit as he switched to her other breast and began sucking on it while she hung there, helpless. She was literally dripping pussy juice down her inner thighs. She had a thing for such activities, and this was composed just the way she liked it. Her gigantic breasts felt the wonderful tongue rub against them, turning her on like a light switch!

“What seems to be going on here?” Diamond Sword said as he leaned against the dungeon threshold, stopping them both as they looked toward the unicorn knight.

“Oooo, my knight in shining armor.” Grem smiled at him as he approached the two of them.

Diamond Sword smiled and came to his lady pony. While Spark took one nipple, Diamond took the other. This caused her to waterfall from her naughty bits. Her thighs were soaked with juices as they travelled down her legs to the dungeon floor.

“Oh! What is a poor girl to do? All chained up and helpless! Ooohh! Woe is me!” She fake cried her words, but her hooves grinded against the floor. At this point she was doing her best to stave off an orgasm.

That was when the jig was up. Diamond placed his hand on her leg and instantly stopped. He mouthed the words “what the fuck?” as he looked at his fingers, which were now wet with vaginal dripping. He traced his finger up to her cunt to feel that it was drowning in lubricant.

“Grem! Dear sweet lord! You’re drenched!” His face was a mask of disbelief. He had never seen her become so self lubricated. She blushed at his flabbergasted look.

“I… may have a thing for bondage.” Her entire face was flushed now. The embarrassment was palpable and what was worse, she was going to die if she didn’t cum soon. The urge was building inside of her so much that she felt she would explode.

The next two minutes was a bit of a blur for Grem. She remembered kisses, nibbling on her neck, squeezing her tits and slapping her rump. However, the next thing she knew, she was being fucked standing up by her dearest lover. The white unicorn was now wholly naked and pumping his gigantic cock into the bat pony. Her first orgasm came and snapped her back to reality, especially when she felt another cock slide into her, this time from behind.

Spark pushed his gigantic dick into her asshole, stretching her ass to its limits as he started fucking her. Her cries of ecstasy echoed all through the dungeon. She was high pitched, absolutely frivolous as to her volume. She pulled out all of the stops. Grem allowed herself to go wild, cock hungry and slutty as ever. Her tongue licked all over Diamond’s muzzle and his tongue as he plowed her leaking pussy. The two of them worked her into a state of absolute nirvana with the large meaty cocks devastating her body and mind. Her tits bounced, thumping up and down against her shoulders and her abs, flopping free as if unhinged.

Both stallions came inside of her at the same time. Semen gushed from both of her orifices as they splattered her insides full of spunk! She sputtered, havered, and wrapped her arms around her lover, kissing him wholly on the lips, her mouth pressing against his as if her very life depended on it. The moment lasted a good long while, her climax still reverberating through her entire body as cum dripped from both holes. They pulled out of her, all of them sweaty and running extremely warm.

Grem felt a bit of exhaustion after such an ordeal. Being fucked by two hunky stallions was not a first for her, but it was by no means a small feat. As she hung there by her arms, both of them supported her weight and made it to where not too much pressure was put on her wrists, so she could at least feel slightly comfortable.

All three of them opened their eyes wide as they heard a commotion in the distance. Echoing through the corridors of that enormous house was what sounded like a clash of combat and the cries of battle.

“We gotta go.” Grem said, and flexed both of her arms, gritting her teeth as she pulled the chains down from the ceiling. Part of the stone shattered in the process as she let her arms hang down finally. Both studs looked at one another with puzzled faces. Then they shrugged, and started to get dressed.

Fable, Voltage and Winter ambled through the hallways of that house, going down lower than they had entered as passages became available to lower stairwells. The heat was growing ridiculous at this point, and the darkness started to fade away. In the place of gloom came a red light. This red light covered everything it touched as they ventured closer to it. The scarlet haze distorted their senses and caused them to squint their eyes. They lost track of how long it took for them to find their way to the levels below, but following the red hue seemed to be the answer as the heat rose around them.

Along with the heat came an uneasiness. The place began to creak and from its depths came a hollow sound. The trio readied their weapons, Winter powering up his horn. They felt a little relief as Winter cast upon them a cold spell, covering them with a wondrous aura of frost.

“Winter, you’re the light of my life.” Fable said as he enjoyed the gorgeous feeling of the cool breeze in that place that was growing the climate of a desert.

Finally, there came a final door at the very bottom of the deepest staircase. This door was black, and behind it was where the brightest part of the red light lie.

“Fe Fi Fo Fum…” Fable said as they looked upon the final door. “Looks like we found the source of the corruption. Think we should wait for the others?”

“We’re not knowing when they’re going to show up.” Winter said. Both of them looked to Voltage and she was tapping her chin. Her train of thought caused her to sigh as she looked to the door.

“Fuck it, let’s go ahead in.” Voltage said as she pulled her sword from her back sheath. “Open the door.” She motioned her huge blade toward it.

“Who, me?” Fable asked, pointing to himself, but then pointed at Winter as Winter pointed to him.

“One of you, open the door.” Voltage gave them both a sour look.

The stallions mimicked the sour look, this time at each other. They turned to one another, reared their fists back and shot them toward one another. Fable did paper while Winter hand gestured with scissors.

“Shit.” Fable cursed under his breath as Winter laughed. He made a rude gesture at Winter as he put his black helm back on which covered his whole face. Fable removed his sword from its sheath and wielded it beside him as he stepped toward the black door. He glanced back at his two companions, and they both nodded. He nodded back, held up his sword and kicked in the door hard!

The room was huge. It was built like a very large courtroom with two jury boxes that lined the left and right walls. One black cloaked stood in the center across the room while the jury boxes were filled with similarly dressed ponies, all of them with their faces hidden under their cowls. They all turned their gaze from the center of the room to the newcomer who entered their chambers.

In the middle of everything stood the largest gemstone, a brilliant ruby. However, as red as it was, there was a large portion of it that began to darken black as the night itself.

“Ah! Nigh comes the heathens and the non-believers!” The black cloaked priest shouted from the center of the precession. “Look upon him, and repent, my subjects! For he is of those who would fight against our holy cause! Our righteous fury which stabbith the world with our rage and hunger!” The black cloaked priest finally revealed his face, which was as pale as death itself. The priest was white as a ghost, and his eyes were blood red as the ruby which glowed as bright as the sun, filling the room with the red distortion and emitted the heat which plagued this once great mansion. “What say you, foul beholder! What say you to these charges, o merchant of death!”

“Death be my only boon, my only gift!” Fable retorted, causing all of those in the room to recoil at the ferocity of his words. “I say thee come and accept my bounty as it is free to all who would approach! Come and taste the bitter sweet blade and bask in the glory of the unbidden doom that awaits you! Come! Feed on my metal and sing! Sing the song that may end the world! Sing! SING!!!!!” Fable Prose cried with the voice of the hottest fire that blazed upon the world of Starling and fired off the largest blaze of green, sickening light that struck the leader of this proceeding. All of the attendants growled and roared in anger as they rose from their seats and charged!

Before either Winter or Voltage could comment on Fable’s little war speech, both of them pulled their hooves into a charge as well. There were around ten of them and only three ponies fighting for the survival of the world. Both Fable and and Voltage came in first, blades swinging! Voltage, the skilled and powerful Paladin fighting alongside Fable, the dark and gore-frenzied Death Knight. The two opposites united to fight off those that took off their hoods, exposing themselves as vampires.

The vampires were using the ruby to suck the light from Starling in order to gain its power through their power to corrupt. Now these three disrupted their rituals and caused a ruckus that they aimed to finish. Voltage flashed her holy light into the eyes of her first opponent, blinding the vampire and cutting her huge sword into its shoulder and down to its heart.

Fable used similar tactics, his sword temporarily enchanted with his green death magic as it cut through the sword wielding vampire-stallion that locked in combat with him. These foes were of slightly lower level, however, with their greater numbers, they had a terrible advantage. Not to mention their master began to cast spells on the players from a distance.

Winter saw this and focused his energies on him instead. The azure unicorn pressed his middle and pointer finger together on his right hand and pointed them upward in front of his eyes. With a thrust of his fingers forward, he sent a barrage of frost arrows forward, all of them flying toward the vampire lord.

Though they took out two minions each, Fable and Voltage were beginning to feel the effects of their advantage in numbers. The paladin unicorn had run out of mana from healing herself and Fable while taking on the minions. Fable had done the same with his life-stealing magic and now he was fighting on his last slew of life.

Winter turned his attention back to the main heat of battle and took out Voltage’s current opponent with an ice beam that damaged it and slowed its movement. She took down the vampire, however, looked up to see that the vampire lord was preparing a very powerful spell. A black ball of energy started to grow in the white vampire stallion hand as he grinned, baring his fangs at the foolish warriors who dared attempt to foil his plans!

However, that was when one of his minions felt two blades jab straight through his back and out his chest. The black blades of the stealthy bat pony took a great deal of health from the vampire underling and dazed it to the point of immobility.

“Silence!” Spark shouted from across the room, concentrating his spell which negated magic in a certain area. He held out his hand and there came a pure white ball of energy. He sent the silence spell at the vampire lord, cancelling his powerful attack before it was unleashed. Then up went Diamond Sword, jumping through the air and into the fray with a heavy slash of his sword, slicing Grem’s victim asunder, where he was no more.

Their ranks bolstered and their strength renewed, the band of warriors fought the vampires back and vanquished them from the realm. Spark sent yet another powerful attack, a line of fire, which carried through the air into its path for the vampire lord, engulfing him in flames! The white undead master howled in great pain as he burst into a smoldering heap.

“Wow, nice shot, Spark!” Winter said as he patted the orange unicorn on the back, who smiled back at him.

“That was amazing!” Diamond shouted, holding up his sword in victory!

However, their laughter and gloating ceased as all of them noticed that something began to seep into the bottom of the gem and onto the ground. The blackness that began to engulf the giant ruby in the middle of the room began to pour out in a sludge onto the ground. The tar-like substance was most assuredly the same corrosive substance that infected the wilds and turned the land around it to ash. Its stench was raw enough to peel an onion down to its core and curdle one’s blood.

“What…” Grem stared at the sludge as it began to move. It gathered into a formless, gelatinous mass that started to move on its own and go to the flaming pile that was once a high ranking vampire.

“Oh, you didn’t believe you could truly win, did you?” He spoke in a low, but loud tone as the thick black ooze put out the flame and covered his entire twisted form. “I am not so easily set aside, young fools. I am never going to stop until my job is complete. Starling must burn, and I must be the one to set the flame. I am Grimoire Nosferous, and I am the hoof among you ants that will stamp you out of existence!” He shouted, and Grimoire formed himself into a hideous black form that grew gnarled arms and claws as his head formed into that of a black demon skull, horns jutting in two diagonal directions. The giant form stood twelve feet tall and glared at them with glowing red eyes.

The companions stood, though. They watched this happen and there was not a single fearful gasp, not a single step back. The six of them stood firm on the ground and poised themselves.

It was Diamond Sword that pointed his sword first. He roared the command to charge and all of them complied! They took up their weapons and all of them lunged forward. They drove their weapons into the beast. Their gauntlets stained with its black tar blood and their weapons splashed its limbs upon the walls in assorted, random splatters.

With sheer ferocity, the day was won. The companions stood in that large room that was now a well fought battlefield. Among the items they looted they all received massive amounts of gold bits and gems from the treasury. However, it was Diamond Sword who found one of the crown jewels.

“Ummmm, Grem, I think I found something for you.” He said, drawing her attention. He walked over to her and she laid her eyes on some of the most beautiful swords she had ever seen. They were dual wielding swords, slightly curved in their double edged blades. Their stats were much higher than the ones she carried, and they even enhanced her strength. He handed them over to her, and she instantly threw down her old pair, swords she had been trying to get rid of for some time now.

She embraced her love in a tight hug and they met in a kiss.

“Well, it’s really late and we should get going.” Grem said to the others. “Same time next week?”

“Oh, for sure.” Winter said, turning to Fable, who nodded. “Next week, we’re going to the bat caves to take on the vicious bat ponies of Fargove!”

“Ooohh, that sounds like fun-- wait, the what?!”