We continued through the forest, and eventually Rainbow Dash started to talk.

"Twilight, are you sure what you was was real? Because, we're almost to Celestia and Luna's old castle, and we have seen NOTHING. Maybe it wasn't real. Maybe it-" as we approached a chasm, I looked around and spotted an old castle nearby. At that moment, Applejack stopped and cut Rainbow off.

"Maybe it's right there?" We look at were she is pointing, and see the bottom of the chasm has a cave at one area. An unnatural blue green glow comes from it. Rarity asks.

"Well how do we get down there?" We hear some crashing sounds, as if someone is falling down some stairs. I look over to the right, and see Pinkie Pie tumbling down a set of stone stairs. The girls notice me, and look were I am looking, seeing Pinkie as she finishes her graceful rendition of 'The Fall Down the Stairs' which was a play written by noone. She gets up, dusts herself off, and says.

"DUH, take the stairs silly." We just shake our heads, and proceed down the stairs. When we reach the bottom, Pinkie hops in my arms bridal style, and says.

"I got a bit hurt on the way down. Could you carry me, please?"However, she was a clever mare, and she played dirty to. She gave me doe eyes, and I held for as long as I could. Just kidding, I melted like a BITCH, and agreed. We continued walking through the chasm passed all the vines that seemed to be pulsing and writhing. We approached the entrance to the cave, and I put Pinkie down to peer inside. what I saw disgusted me.

It looked a lot like the Gravemind, from Halo, but instead of The Flood, it was made up of thousands of vines, and thousands of thorns covered it's body. It was partially engulfing a tree made of crystal, as if the vine monster had grown up around the tree. The tree looked to be glowing, but it was dimming fast. I turned to the girls.

"Alright, anyone know of a vine monster in any legend or lore? Because the tree is being sucked dry by one."

Twilight looks promising, as she is getting a gleam in her eyes. "Yes, I remember reading about a vine demon. It was one of the Twelve demon lords. It's name was something like Kudzu. Kudzulus, that's it! He was number ten of the demon lords. What is he doing here?" Applejack get's thoughtful for a moment.

"Could he have gotten out when Cerberus left his post? It would make sense." The girls think, and agree that it is the most likely cause.

"Either way, I will need to clear him out enough for you girls to do what you need with the tree. Spike, I need you help real quick. Twilight, do you have a quill and paper?"

"Yes, why?"

"I need a favor from a god. The vines the demon has placed look to be Hel's Bramble, and I can't cut that with my axe, and I don't think it will hurt the demon either." Fluttershy looks confused.

"Why wouldn't your other weapons work, or the axe? It was doing well earlier?"

"I don't think the demon was sending Hel's Bramble into the town. It might have been doing it as an invasion force, and then would have brought the bramble along behind. I don't exactly know, but I do know that frost axes don't work against frost vines, from the coldest depths of Helheim. I need some better weapons, with a different type of fire from what you have in this world. Twilight, I take a letter.

Dear Shaman,

I would like to request a weapon please. I believe you know what I would be asking for, and I ask for it to help your world.

Your Champion,
Cameron Ruff.

You got that Twi?"

She scratches down the last few words, then nods. She hands it to Spike, and he says.

"I hope this works, never sent to a goddess before." And burns the paper. The smoke wafts away into the sky, and disappears. We wait, for what must have been ten minutes, before I hear something. I look around, and see nothing. The others look around as well, starting to hear it. Finally, I look to the top of the canyon. There, I see a Howler. But it isn't just any Howler, it is the Shaman's Howler form. She leaps from the top of the cliff, and hops from ledge to ledge as she descends. She reaches the bottom safely, and makes her way to us. I kneel, and the others wonder why. Until the Shaman transforms into her human form, and takes of her mask, turning into her real self.

When the other's see her auburn hair, and the wings and horn, they get on hands and knees quickly. The Shaman laughs, again it is melodious, and she says to us.

"Rise little ones. You do not need to bow. I don't mind. However, Cameron, you have moxie, to send me a letter for help. I do indeed know what you ask for, and I will give them, but know this, you should not expect this favor often. They have been fully upgraded, and here is the runic attack for them."

"Thank you, Shaman. I don't expect favors for everything." she smiles, then comes over to me.

And then she gives me a nice mouth to mouth lesson. I lock up. I was not going to lie, the goddess doing this was not what I was expecting. I brain started to seize, and she stopped the lesson. I just stood there like an idiot.

"UUUUHHHH!" I couldn't think. The girls and Spike were just as speechless. She laughed, and then backed away from me. She held out her hand, and said.

"Kneel, champion." I do so in a daze. She kissed me, what do you expect from me. Would you not be in a daze if a goddess kissed YOU? Yeah, you would, so shut up.

"I present to you, the Blades of Chaos. They are not to be burned into your skin, so do not worry. It is the full package, as your generation says. Fully upgraded, and all the runic abilities. Go forth, my champion, and rid this world of demons." With that, she starts to shine brighter and brighter, making us have to shield our eyes. The light dies out, and on the ground were she stood, was two blades, and a small bag with some gems. I pick up the blades, and fire springs up along the blades, and the chains attached to them slither up and bind themselves onto my arms. Like the Shaman said, they did not sear themselves onto my skin, but tied itself so as not to come off. The crystal arm changed from a blue, to a fiery red, and flames began to vent out along it. The chains were absorbed into it, and I took a few experimental swings to test out the blades. The girls all backed away, and I let loose a few attacks.

"Oh yes, thank you goddess. I shall slay the demons with these." i head into the cave.

It takes me a moment to get the demons attention, but once I do, I have all of it.

"WhAT BriNgs You tO ME? ArE You Here tO KiLl m? Or, ArE YoU HeRe tO JOIN Me?" Its voice sounded like multiple people shrieking each word. It gave off a very disturbing vibe.

"I am here to kill you, and free the tree. However, I will not kill you if you decide to go back to Tarturus, Hel, Hell, or wherever you come from. Leave, and I will not have to hurt you." The demon chuckles, the sound of a thousand screams being compressed into one form.

"YoU PreSUme mUCh, LIttLe BUG. I WiLL NOT LeaVe. I HAve BeEN ProMiSEd The EneRgY frOm This TrEE. It iS MinE. yoU ShoUlD leaVE, liTTle BuG, aND I wiLl lEt the OtHERS kNOw, to LET yoU Live WhEn They RISE." I sigh.

"Very well, I gave you a chance to leave, and you did not take it. That leaves me two other options, and I believe that you aren't going to take the second one, but I will ask, will you release the tree, if you are promised a place to live and grow?"

The demon shakes it's head. "NO." I nod.

"Then I shall send you to the void. Let us fight, demon, and see who the victor is." I roar, and charge at the demon. He shoots several vines at me, trying to hit me, but I charge up the runic attack Cyclone of Chaos, and swing my blades up over my head, spinning around with both blades slashing all around as I spun, creating a cyclone like effect. The vines that connected with my new blades burned to ashes as they touched. The demon shot more and more vines, and eventually, I stopped, having come up with an idea that was dangerous, but should work. I grabbed some of the vines, and pulled, trying to pull the demon from the tree. It lashed out, more vines, these tipped with poisonous thorns, shot out, and I dodged and grabbed them, pulling. I pulled, digging my feet into the ground, and heaved.

The girls had been watching, and when I had started this plan, they had rushed in to try and help me, but I waved them off, back out of the cave, and pulled. I actually don't know how long it took, but I finally felt something start to give. I looked at the demon, and it was starting to screech in terror. I was pulling it from the tree, it being ripped off. The roots and vines that held it to the tree were starting to snap and break, the pain being escalated as the tree started to fight. It pulsed and pulsed, and each pulse seemed to affect the vines and root that I was pulling, and the roots in the ground.

At last, with a massive heave, and much grunting and pulling, I heaved the massive demon from the tree, and threw it out the cave. The tree was dim, but it looked good, and I pulled out my holy sword, invisible to everyone with a layer of magic mist shrouding the blade, and waked over to the tree. I called the girls inside, to get a way from the demon, and they rushed in, Spike staying near the entrance to use his flames to stop the demon from entering. I turned to the girls.

"You try and give the tree it's energy back. I will give it some, enough to keep it from dying until you figure it out, but then I have to go fight that demon. Hurry and help the tree." I then walk to the tree, and plunge the legendary sword of Arthur into the tree trunk. The tree gets a bit brighter, but not by much, and I turn and rush out the cave.

Spike joins me as I exit the cave. He stands by me as we face the daemon. It is screeching at me.

"WOrTHlESS HUMan, YOu WILL DiE!" I shake my head.

"Not today. Spike, ready?"

"No, so let's do this." I nod, and we charge the demon. It shows it had another attack, one it didn't use in the cave. It starts to spit a large cloud of acidic mist at us, blanketing the area. I pour fire into my arm, and the area the mist covers starts to burn. The mist itself catches fire, and burns away, leaving the area open to me and Spike to attack. We rush in, and I start using the blades of chaos to slash at his viney face. I take massive chunks of vine off, and Spike deals with the vines that try and get into the cave. Me and Spike switch from time to time, he takes the face and I take the vines, then the other way around. After what felt like forever, but was actually three minutes I found out later, I was attacking his face when I was smacked away. I hit the cliff face over the cave, and my slam caused the entrance to collapse. Spike was thrown into me, but was knocked unconscious as he hit me and the canyon wall. I pushed him off me, and fell out the indent I had made. It was a ten foot fall to the pile of stone below me, that had come from the collapse. I couldn't feel my left arm, though I could see it was still there.

I dimly realized that I had a concussion. I also realized that the girls were trapped. That was when something happened. A pulse, almost, was blasted from the blocked cave. I didn't fully register it, as my arms burned, my head was concussed, and my chest felt heavy. When the shockwave hit me, my mind cleared from a haze. I realized that the demon was still standing, but was hurting. It looked as if some blue fire was spreading across it. I didn't think, I just raised my right hand, and poured fire through it. A blast of flames came out, blowing across the vine demon. It was burning, the stench of it's vines being seared like someone set fire to a garbage can of weeds that had fermented for a month in the summer. I almost vomited, and the stench was getting to my head, as it started to swim once again. I kept up the fire, and after a minute, the demons shrieks of pain started to die out. After another minute, they stopped altogether.

I shambled over to the pile of rocks in front of the cave, and began moving them. I had to get the girls out. They couldn't be left in there. I knew that.

My body was telling me to quite. My mind said to quite. My soul said to help the girls. My mind then said fine, help the girls, and started to pump whatever hormones it had to to keep me moving. My body said fine, help the girls, and the torn muscles from pulling the demon out the ground shut up and helped me move rocks.

I don't know what time it was. I was so out of it, I think I might have actually been asleep. Spike must have woken up some time ago, but either he didn't say anything, or he did and I was lost to the world, but he had started to help me move rocks as well. He kept talking to the girls, who had been yelling to us the whole time we moved rocks, and told them we were coming. I didn't hear a thing. I moved with a single thought in mind. Help the girls.

I finally moved the last large boulder, as Spike had taken to the smaller to small-medium rocks that would get in my way, while I took the massive boulders, and the medium-large rocks. I picked up the last boulder, which must have been about a thousand pounds, and was the last rock in front of the cave entrance, and lifted it above my head. I turned, and threw it. It sailed a good forty feet away, and landed with a crash. I then turned to the cave, to see the girls come crashing into me. They looked at the cuts and scrapes along my body that were slowly healing, the scabbards healing affect having to work overtime to keep me moving. They noticed the cut that had bleed on my head, before it had been healed by the scabbard. My torn muscles hadn't had time to properly heal, and had torn more. They saw my glazed over look, and they gasped. I was asleep. I had been moving everything to help them with such intensity that my unconscious mind had been doing the same as my conscious mind.

The girls cried out as I fell and hit the ground.

Author's Note

I know, the fight kinda sucked. In my defense, there isn't many ways you can make a vine monster with attacks that haven't been used over and over. I am also sorry for the fact that Zecora has the same lines as in the main show. I suck at creating things that rhyme, and Zecora ONLY rhymes. It would have been odd to not have a rhyming Zecora. Also, hope I am not overstepping any boundaries by giving myself the Blades of Chaos. I thought that maybe I should have the full set. Sorry it wasn't the greatest chapter, and I hope to maybe come back and write it better.

Have a Jivin day!