Flyte

(A/N: I admit that last chapter wasn't the best of my works but I'm back! And hopefully over my writer's block! Anyway I also wanted you guys to check out my other story called 'musical interpretation' mainly because I need some feedback on it. Either way, thanks for sticking with me this long! And have a chapter! You've earned it!)

Seeing his chance, Crackshot quickly made his way over to where his daughter lay unconscious. "Oh no no no no!" He whispered as he rushed over to the little filly and preformed CPR on her, pumping her chest with his whooves and pushing air down her throat via mouth to mouth. "C'mon Star! C'mon! Breath Faust dammit!" He shouted as tears stung his eyes. After several minutes of this, he felt his son's hoof on his shoulder. "Dad, you did all you could for her." He spoke, Crackshot turned to see his son also crying.

Suddenly the two heard coughing as Starlight came back from the brink. "[cough] D-dad! I met mom! I met mommy! She..she said to tell you that....it's alright." Said the little filly after she finished her coughing fit. "Oh thank the holy celestial body your alright." He whispered as he hugged his daughter.

"Woooowee! Would ya look at that!" Said his son drawing both father and daughter's attention to the scene of contest.

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I watched as Scootaloo battled the three demons below. Her moves were those only a master would know but she moved like a novice, not used to fighting at all. I dove in countless times using a hit and run strategy to distract them as Scootaloo punched, kicked and twisted around. She was clumsy, so much so in fact that a casual swipe from one of the thing's claws drew a bloody line across her stomach as she reared back on her hindlegs to dodge another doppleganger's blow.

That...basically did it for me. I ran in screaming with the fury of hell. The firs tone I grabbed and threw him into the air, incinerating him with a white fireball the sun would be jealous of. The second one I dove into, grabbing his head and running it along the shop fronts until it was a bloody streak on the walls, not that it bled really. The blood in questions were just watery forms of shadow that seemed to drip off of the creatures. The last one Scootaloo dispatched with a powerful buck to the chest, sending it into a brick wall where it lay there immobile. "EAT IT YOU SHADY MOTHERBUCKER!" I shouted in glee.

Looking back on it I realized that was probably a bad idea as it started laughing.

The Darkheart expected this, it expected the hostage situation to breakdown. "You and I both know that it's going to take a lot more than that to put me down for good!" It exclaimed from it's place in the wall as it suddenly thrust out a shadowy tendril that became a javelin. It hurdled it towards Scootaloo who was still panting from the stress and adrenaline rush a fight demanded. As it zoomed towards her an unlikely rainbow blur took it's place as it's destination.

"NOOOO!" screamed Rainbow Dash as she leapt into action, racing from the still broken window and knocking Scootaloo out of the way of the approaching projectile. She felt a sharp pain in the lower area of her back as it. "Now listen here Scootaloo, don't you dare cry over me." She whispered fiercely, already the pain had dulled as she began to feel sleepy. The filly underneath her couldn't believe that her mother had acted as an Equine shield. "Mom no please no no no no no!" Repeated the filly in vain. She could already see that the dark matter had pierced through her back. "No Scootaloo, don't cry over me." Were Rainbow Dash's last words as she slipped.

Scootaloo was too shocked to even begin to feel sad.

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I saw it all. I saw the thing shoot out a javelin I was too slow to stop it as it careened towards the only other pony that I felt something for. I was too slow to stop it as Rainbow Dash.

I was too slow.

I was too slow.

Damn that thing for taking away all I ever had again.

As these thoughts raced through me I felt an anger fueled with pain and despair work it's way through me.

I let it all out, not only the pain I felt now but the pain I had harbored within me. There were only two thoughts that entered my brain before I lost it.

"Avenge her"

The sheer love for Rainbow coupled with the hate I felt for that thing lent me strength as a fire so hot it steamed off my very skin grew within my heart. I let out everything I was feeling in one rage fueled shout that spoke truer than any voice.

"RRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" I could feel the very air ripple as I screamed out my heart.

The Darkheart turned it's attention to me as I proceeded forward. "You have taken my mothers and my father. YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY SISTER!" The anger was evident in my voice and it looked at me with a smug grin. I only vaguely realized that it was growing and growing and growing until it was just a shadowy tornado taller than the very castle itself.

"And what are you going to do about it?" It asked in a sarcastic voice that seemed to come from everywhere.

"I'm going to make you wish you were never born." I replied as I smiled a cheshire smile.

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"Princess Celestia! We're here don't worry!" Shouted Aquillus as he blasted down the doors of the solar princess's bedroom with a whole company of guards. "I'm afraid your a bit late captain." Replied the Princess not bothering to take her eyes off of the scene before her. "And why might that be?" He said miffed as he flew over to the window to see what held the princess's attention. What he saw made his jaw drop so hard it crashed thorough the marble floor.

Although he would never admit it, he was one of the 5 guards who had quaked in their shoes as Nightshade decimated their ranks. He was also one of the stallions who challenged him to a fight in the courtyards when the princess wasn't looking.

"How did I ever think I could beat that?" He wondered as he stared at the black colt standing against the maelstrom that was the darkheart. He watched it as it was slowly encased in black, then white, and then finally gray fire. He watched as he shot into the center of the maelstrom almost faster than the the naked eye, all that signaled him moving was a trail of fire.

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I shot off into the center of the maelstrom, knowing exactly what I had to do. As I entered the maelstrom I heard the voice of my father and my mother Leviathan shout in unison.

"Incinerate it."

Smiling, I closed my eyes and let my body drop through the windy funnel until I found myself at the bottom which was touching the ground. I took the deepest breath I could muster, my lungs felt like popping and my vision blurred.

FWOOSH!

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Celestia watched as a monstrous pillar of grey flames erupted from the center of the tornado, making it lose control and disappear all together. She watched as the Darkheart took the form of a colt and burned in the center of the pillar until there was nothing left. The plume of fire expanded into the night sky. It was so huge and hot that the remaining glass around the broken window melted as well as the stone and even the cured wood of the huge doors burst into flames. The only thing saving the bedroom from being completely engulfed in flames was the fact that Celestia had put a powerful anti-flamatory spell in the center of the room that emanated protection. Everypony else had shielded their eyes as the fire engulfed everything, only she could see the source.

A glowing grey colt making a small 0 aperture with his mouth fueled the flames. This continued for a good 20 minutes before the enormous pillar subsided and then evaporated into the night air. She quickly clapped her hooves together and put on to her head.

"Faust have mercy on us all." She whispered an old prayer.

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I returned to conscious thought after my anger fueled rampage. I heard sniffling as I looked over to my sister. She in turn was cradling the lifeless body of Rainbow Dash who had acted as an Equine shield. "She...she's gone." She said through her tears.  I made my way over to her and put a hoof to her shoulder. "No, no she isn't" I said, knowing that there was one last thing that needed to be done.

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Scootaloo watched as Nightshade took her mother's head from her hooves and then began chanting.

"confn spical ekess udoka woari sepa." He said over and over and over again.

Rainbow Dash's dead body began to float in the air as a blue aura surrounded it, the wound on her back healing and vanishing altogether. She watched as he took a lick of white fire from his open mouth and wash her body in it. "What are you doing!?!" She screamed, she had seen what his fires could do to a pony. Suddenly Rainbow Dash began coughing as black mist poured from her mouth. "What....where...Scootaloo? Nightshade?" Asked a weak Rainbow Dash.

Scootaloo was at a complete loss for words as she hugged the revived mare. The black mist started swirling and forming the shape of a pony.

"Who dares take a soul from me?" It asked in a dead voice as it took the form of a fully grown stallion with burning blue eyes and a giant scythe on his back. "I do, and if you think your getting her back you've got another thing coming." Said Night as he took a protective stance around Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash.

Death had been guiding the young mare's soul up to the heights of heaven when a voice tugged at her and called her back. He followed, amused by the sudden unnatural disturbance. He wasn't expecting the dragon/colt when he arrived.

"Your the little one who fought through Hell to get back to life. Aren't you?" He asked still amused. "Sure am." He replied curtly staring dead into the supernatural ghoul's eyes.

"If you think your going to take my mother back then you have another thing coming." He spoke again with grim determination.

"And what might that be?" He asked, still bemused that a little one would stand up to a force as might as him.

"Well for starters your going to have to deal with me." Spoke a new voice only death could hear. The voice belonged to Starswirl the Bearded as he appeared from behind the colt. He locked gazes with death. "And me." Said a giant white dragon descending from the heavens. Death sighed.

"Fine, keep her." It said smiling at the family, the dead and living ones. "You've earned her back" It said as it disappeared.

"What was that all about?" Rasped Rainbow Dash weakly, Scootaloo hugged her again. "Nothing mom, just know that your home for good." Whispered the little filly with a smile plastered on her face.

"Is there any room for me?" Asked Nightshade as he stood over the two, Scootaloo turned to him and opened her arms. He gladly accepted as the family reunited, never to separate again.

"Don't worry you two, I'm home for good." Whispered Nightshade to the two, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo only responded by tightening their grips.