In the land of Linirea, life was peaceful, there were farmers gathering ready crops, townsfolk were going to the daily market and parents were taking care of their young ever since the fall of Vez'nan. Yes it truly was peaceful and quiet throughout the entire land, well most of it anyways.
"We've got more food coming!" Yelled a dwarven while taking another bite of his oversized drumstick.
"Good, and you better not eat it all again." A nearby wizard said.
"I told you already, I didn't eat it all, it was the barbarians!"
"Hey! Just because we are barbarians, doesn't mean we eat over fifty pounds of food!"
"Then explain where all the food went."
"You ate it all you idiot!"
"For the hundredth time I told you I didn't eat it!"
"Would both of you shut up!" An archer scolded them. "It doesn't matter who ate all the food, what does matter is that we are here to party, not to act like children!"
"I agree with him." The wizard said. But this did nothing to change their mood, but the dwarven cheered up when he saw the food coming on a gigantic cart, but as soon as he got up, he was sat down again by the wizard's magic.
"No, your staying here until we get our portion of the food."
The dwarven's stomach growled. "But i'm still hungry."
"So you did eat all the food!" The barbarian said.
"Grrrr! I didn't!"
While everyone got their share of the food and the dwarvan and barbarian still argued, something was happening at the dark castle in the forbidden valley.
"They think they have defeated me. Hah! With my soul shadow spell I can't die! But I must hurry to my body, this spell won't last much longer." Vez'nan thought to himself. "Now where is it, it should be around here som- ah there it is!" He found where he died, his body was just a pile of ashes now. "Hm... I don't have my staff right now, maybe a simple reviving spell should do the trick." He pointed his hand to the charred corps, it was enveloped in a green aura, when it was gone, Vez'nan's own body was in front of him, complete with cape, robe and crown but no staff. "Seems someone has taken my staff."
With that said he jumped into his body, making his shadow reconnect to its owner and putting his soul back inside of him.
"Ah...that feels better to be in my own body again, and i do have a spare staff back at the castle, not as powerful but it's still useful, and i see that they took out Sarelgaz, Gul'thak and Greenmuck, they are stronger than I thought." He said to himself.
"I know I can revive them, but it will take time...hm. Ah i've got, i'll send to another world, yes it will give me time to rebuild my army, now for my staff." He then headed to his castle to retrieve his secondary staff and start the spell.
Ten minutes later, back at castle Linirea, the barbarian and dwarven where still arguing and the party was still going, but mid-argument, the dwarven heard thunder. "Hey did you here that? It sounded like thunder."
"Don't try to change the subject! As I was saying, you...wait I heard it to."
They weren't the only ones that heard it, the wizard, archer and knight also heard it.
"There wasn't supposed to be a storm today, was there?" The knight asked
"No there wasn't, strange." The archer said
"Lets go check it out then." The wizard suggested earning nods from the four. When they went outside they noticed it was no ordinary storm, the clouds were swirling like a tornado was forming, and in the middle was what appeared to be a cyan colored vortex, and lighting was spewing out of it.
"In all of my life, i've not seen a storm like this." The barbarian said.
The wizard then felt something weird "I...I'm sensing high levels of magic...it's him."
"What!" But before the knight could finish his sentence, they all felt themselves getting sucked in. One by one they were pulled in, the castle started to fall apart and sucked in as well, so was everyone inside the castle. This went on for about a minute, and once the storm was gone, so was the castle.
"Ow, my head." A paladin named Sir Dante said to himself as he laid face first in grass. "What happened?" He thought back to the wizards words. "High levels of magic? Him?" His eyes widened. "...Vez'nan." Only Vez'nan could summon a portal that big and powerful. "Great, wait where am I?" He got up from his earth bed and looked around, he saw he was in a garden that was next a castle, but not the castle he was at mere seconds ago "Could this be...Equestria?" He then thought back to the library, the library held all sorts of books but the on that interested him the most was the one titledEquestria: Real or Fiction?, so he read it and it said how it was populated by magical talking ponies, dragons, hydras and all sorts of strange creatures he has never seen before, and how there are two princess's that rule the land, one named Celestia and the other, Luna who was the younger of the two sisters, he also read that they are alicorns that can raise the sun and moon. Once he was done reading he put the book back and got the recently completed monster encyclopedia and took with him to the party.
Which reminded him, did he still have it? He looked around and sure enough, it was on the ground next to him, but as soon as he picked it up, a shadow appeared behind him, turning around he saw two royal guards, he read about these as well and they were levitating spears pointed toward, telling him that they thought he was a threat and he doesn't blame them, a creature that they've never seen before comes out of no where and has full bodied armor, not to mention he has a shield and sword. He had to gain there trust somehow.
He raised his hands in the air and said "I mean no harm towards you." But it didn't change their attitude towards him.
"Come with us." One of them said. Dante just nodded his head and followed them.
"These ponies are bigger than I thought." He thought to himself. It was true for he was about a couple of inches shorter than them.
"Augh, stupid Vez'nan" The wizard siad to himself while waking from his forced slumber.
"Finally! Your awake, now can you help me down?" The dwarven asked the wizard while a vine was wrapped around his ankle, earning a chuckle from him. "Don't laugh, this isn't funny!"
"It kinda is."
"Just get me down."
"Fine." He then used his magic to make the vine snap in half, sending the dwarven face first to the ground.
"OOF!...Thanks." He gave a thumps up, his face still planted in the ground.
"No problem."
"Mmph mmph." The wizard turned around and found the barbarians head in the ground, causing him to once again chuckle, he then used his magic to pull him out.
"Ugh thanks." But before he could say anything else, something hit him on the head, causing him to bite his tongue.
"OOOOOWWWWW!!!" He yelled in pain but perked up when he found out what hit him. "Hey! My axe!" He than picked up his battle axe.
"Your lucky it didn't hit you with the sharp end" The wizard commented, just then they heard a rustle in a nearby bush, startling them. They then got their weapons ready, the wizard got his staff, the barbarian got his axe while the dwarvan put his fists up.
"I think I heard voices over here." Said a very familiar voice, the knight and archer came out from behind the bush.
"Thank goodness we found you, we thought we were going to be lost forever in this creepy forest." The archer said, they then felt the ground rumble.
"Was that your stomach dwarven?" Before he could answer, they heard a low growl from behind them, when they turned around, they saw a four headed creature, this was a hydra, and it was hungry.
"RUN!" The archer shouted, they then sprinted for their life.
"Aw, man" A musketeer thought to himself after awakening from his unconscious state. "Ugh, who's poking me?" He then got up, but then regretting it after he saw what was poking him. He let out a surprised "GAH!" jumping up, and startling what appeared to be a blue horse...with wings?
"Whoa!" The creature said, it sounded female.
"Just where am I, man I hope this is just a bad dream." He thought to himself, he than looked around and as he has expected there were more of these horses starring at him, some had wing, others had a horn, and some were regular and they were all different colors, he then fainted again.
"Ok... that was weird." The blue one named Rainbow Dash said. There was talking amongst the crowd of ponies, some where asking what is this creature, others wondered if they should help it or not, but Rainbow made up her mind, she put him on her back and told the ponies she would take it to twilight, she needed to get the next copy of the Daring Doo series anyways.
The two guards and paladin finally arrived in the room with the sun princess herself,she knew what she was dealing with so she asked the guards t leave. When they were gone she directed her attention to the paladin before her, Sir Dante respectively kneeled down, she was a princess after all, she was taken back a little but she kept the stern face.
"You are a human, correct?" She asked.
"Yes." Was all he said.
"Then why are you here?"
"I am here because of an evil being known as Vez'nan."
"Vez'nan?"
He then proceeded to explain his and Linirea armys adventure to stop Vez'nan, how they had to fight many powerful creatures to get to him, like the Juggernaut and J.T. and how they finished off the rest of the army by killing Sarelgaz, Gul'thak and Greenmuck. He also told her that he fears that Vez'nan may come to this world to finish them off and take over Equestria.
"What in the name of celestia!?" They heard a guard yell from the other side of the door, it than burst open revealing goblins, orcs and ogres coming through, the two guards were fight some goblins.
"I knew it." The paladin said while taking out his shield and sword, he ran towards the horde, his sword started to glow blue, he then struck the ground sending all the goblins flying, killing them instantly and heavily damaging the orcs, even killing some. He then finished off the orcs and focused on the two ogres, he dodged the first ones attack and went behind it making it turn around, the second one swung his weapon but instead of hitting Dante, it hit the other one in the head, crushing its skull and killing it, finally he stabbed the last one in the back, it gave out one more roar before falling on the ground dead.
Celestia was amazed, one human took out an entire horde of monsters, she was wondering how he was able to do that one attack that sent all the goblins flying.
"Damn it!" Vez'nan yelled "One paladin was able to take them all out!? Fine I will just have to send the juggernaut."
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Hey guys, this is my first fanfic so if this is not as good as other fanfics, i will appreciate if you can tell me how to improve.
Hope you guys enjoy this MLP Kingdom Rush crossover, and thanks for reading! :)
"Damn it!" Vez'nan yelled "One paladin was able to take them all out!? Fine I will just have to send the juggernaut."
Back to where the five were getting chased. One of the hydras head was blinded due to the archers arrows, one head had fallen asleep due to the wizards magic and it had many cuts and wounds on the body due to the barbarian and knights attacks. The hydra was starting to see he was loosing more then gaining, so he stuck his out tongue at them and turned around, the five where relieved that it was gone.
"Man, I thought we where goners there" The archer said, they then felt the ground shake again.
"Oh great, now what?" The wizard asked, they then heard voices.
"What the? How did we end up in a forest?" One voice said.
"I told you, you idiot. Vez'nans teleportation spell is not always accurate." Onother voice said, the five peeked out a nearby bush, and what they saw was an entire army including the Juggernaut. There where goblins, orcs, ogres, bandits, brigands, shamans, giant spiders, spider matriarchs, marauders, wulfs, worgs, dark knights, gargoyles, and shadow archers.
"It doesn't matter where we are, what matters is as long as we get to the castle and capture that sun pony and take over this place, now help me activate the Juggernaut." A shadow archer said, he and two others opened the back of the Juggernaut and flipped some switches and the Juggernaut came to life. "Turn off his destruction mode so he doesn't waste ammo." The archer nodded and flipped a switch.
"So, which way to the castle?" A dark knight asked.
"Lets head this way." A shaman said, pointing east. They then headed then headed that direction.
"Oh great, now there is an army here looking for a castle, and what did they say about a sun pony?" The archer asked.
"I don't know but maybe if we follow them, we might find help." The knight said, they all agreed and followed the small army.
"Ugh, my bloody head." The musketeer said to himself. "Man, what a nightmare. Wait, where am I?" He found himself in a room, and on a bed with a star like design. He then heard muffled voices come from behind the door "I hope it's not what I think it is." He proceeded to the door and slowly opened it, he heard the voices more clearly.
"You never know Twilight, it could be him in disguise!" The voice was very familiar.
"First off Rainbow dash, Discord is still trapped in stone and second even if it was, i don't think he would pass out at the sight of ponies." He guessed this one was Twilight, and he realized that it wasn't a nightmare when he saw the ponies. He tried to sneak down the stairs, but when he took one step the stairs made a loud creak which alerted the two, on the second step he missed it and fell down the stairs. He rolled all the way down to where the two ponies were, gaining their attention. "Bloody stairs." He said aloud.
"Told you he was human." Twilight said gathering the attention of said human, minutes passed when the silence was broken by loud stomping.
"Anypony else here that?" Rainbow asked. All three of them looked out a nearby window, and what they saw made all threes jaw drop, the same army that was in the forest a couple of minutes ago was now going through the town. "What the hay!?" At the edge of the town was a giant metal one struggling to keep up.
"The Juggernaut!" The musketeer said aloud.
"The juggerwhat-now?" Twilight asked.
"The Juggernaut, a mindless machine that's hell-bent on destroying castles...is there a castle here?"
"Yea, but its in canterlot, on the mountain."
"Then we need to hurry, where's my gun?"
"Your what?" Rainbow asked.
"A gun, it is a weapon that can shoot little pellets known as bullets that can puncture the flesh and sometimes bones." Twilight said while handing the gun over.
"How do you know that?" Rainbow asked.
"I read a lot." Twilight said, making the musketeer facepalm and Rainbow to facehoof. "What?"
"Never mind, lets just get to the castle." The musketeer said, getting nods from the two, but as soon as they ran outside, they collided with someone. Sending them to the ground.
"Hey! Watch where your going!" Said the dwarven from underneath them. "Wait a minute, is that a musketeer?" But was interrupted by Twilight.
"I don't mean to interrupt you two but we've got a kingdom to save!"
"She's right, follow us, now!" The musketeer said, at the same time Twilight told Rainbow Dash to lead them to the train station while she wrote letter to their friends to meet them at the train station. The five didn't ask any questions since they saw how stern the musketeer was and followed Rainbow Dash.
"So the Juggernaut is making his way to the castle, excellent." Vez'nan said to himself. "But of course, if he does fail I will have to send something else to kill them but I still need to thaw out J.T. and the other three are still dead, hm...maybe a monster from another world?" He then brought up his one way portal. "Hm maybe a dragon will do." The portal then revealed a familiar place. "Ah Avalar, the place where I helped the one dragon to become an evil master, what was his name again? Ah that's right, Malefor, it has been a long time. I wonder if he is still at it." The image in the portal then changed and three young dragons appeared in it. "So these dragons are suitable for my army? Very well." He then summoned forth a small army of shadow archers, dark knights, giant spiders, ogres and worgs and sent them through another portal further away from the three.
Meanwhile the three dragons known as Spyro, Cynder, and Ember where enjoying the day, until Spyro heard something.
"Do you guys hear something?" But before they could answer, Spyro was shot in the leg by an arrow.
"Spyro!" Cynder yelled and rushed over to him, Ember looked to towards the source of the arrow and got into her fighting stance. After spyro had the arrow out of his leg, he and Cynder looked towards where Ember was looking only for him to get pounced by a worg.
"GAH! What is this thing." Spyro said while trying to keep the blood thirsty hound from tearing his neck open while Cynder used her poison attack to try to get rid of the worg. When it hit though, the worg ceased its attack and looked towards Cynder with an annoyed expression and turned back to the purple dragon only to get scratched by Spyro, the worg yelped in pain and jumped off.
"Doesn't look like its affected by magic much." Spyro said while getting up. "We might just want to use non-magical attacks on those things."
"Uh, guys? A little help here." Ember said while narrowly dodging the attacks of a dark knight.
"Ugh! Stay still you overgrown lizard!"
This got Ember mad. "Overgrown lizard? Thats it!" Ember attacked the dark knight, only to receive a chuckle from him. "Uh oh." Ember yelped as she yet again dodged another attack.
"Non-magical attacks don't seem to work much, maybe magic?" Spyro suggested, but Cynder was already thinking ahead and used her dark fire attack. It hit the dark knight and he yelled in agony.
"ARGH! We cant fail, Vez'nan will have our heads of we do."
"Who's Vez'nan?" Spyro question.
"Probably some ape." Cynder said.
"How dare you insult the dark master! I shall make sure that my sword goes through your skull!"
"Whoa, easy there buddy." Spyro said, but this distracted him from the ogre behind, it swung its club, hitting Spyro on the head and making him fall unconscious.
"Spyro!" Ember and Cynder said in unison, but as they started making their way towards him, five giant spider lunged towards Ember and pined her to the ground. At the same time, Cynder was shot by three arrows, two in the legs and one in her stomach, she was blinded by the pain that she didn't notice the two worgs coming. They pounced on her, and now she was pinned, she watched helplessly as an ogre was coming to finish the job, once it was in reach it raised its weapon and brought it down, it made contact with Cynders head and she fell unconscious as well. Now it was Embers turn, she tried to get free but the spiders had a grip of steel and the ogre was making his way to her, it was useless, she stopped struggling and excepted her fate. The ogre reached her and readied the attack, launched it, and she too fell unconscious.
Back at the train station, the seven where waiting for Twilights and Rainbows, they have bee waiting for about a minute and the army has been making slow progress, and their friends had just arrived.
"What in tarnation is going here bout some army?" But the conversation was cut short when a couple of arrows whizzed by them by some shadow archers.
"No time to talk, get in we'll explain everything inside." Twilight told them. They all got into the train, closed the door and the train started moving, but not without some uninvited guests.
"Twilight dear, what is happening and what where those things?" Rarity asked.
"They are known as shadow archers." The wizard said. "And now for my question, where are we?"
"You are in Equestria." Twilight answered.
"Doesn't that mean land of horses?"
"Yes, thats why it's called Equestria." They then heard some hissing.
"Anypony else hear that?" Rainbow asked, then the windows in the back broke open seven giant spiders came in.
"Giant spiders!" The musketeer yelled while pulling out his gun, he then started shooting which scared Fluttershy and she bolted into the next room. Twilight got an idea and ran to the front of the train.
"Um, I don't mean to bother you but do you think that you can make this go faster?"
"Why?" Then two giant spiders appeared on the front.
"That's why!" The conductor then made the train go faster. The faster the train went, the stronger the winds got, the spiders started losing their grip and flew off. There where only three spider matriarchs left and they were able to hold on and make slow progress towards the front, but the winds proved to be to great for them. They started losing their grip and eventually flew off as well. Once it was over, everyone gave a sigh of relief as they where safe...for now.
It's been about thirty minutes since Princess Celestia and Sir Dante had been talking about each others world, but they where interrupted when they heard a voice.
"I see you made a new friend, paladin."
"Vez'nan." Dante turned around. "Show yourself!"
"Fine, if you insist." Then a transparent Vez'nan appeared in the middle of the room. "Don't bother to try to attack me, I'm merely an allusion." He looked at Celestia. "And you're that sun pony, right?" Neither of them answered. "I'll take that as a yes."
"What are you doing here Vez'nan?"
"I just wanted to let you know that there is an army coming for this castle right now, with the Juggernaut. Also if you are wondering why i'm telling you this, it is because I know you can't win without your general." Dante was getting angry now. "Oh, are you mad? Am I angering you? Or is it because you know you can't win?"
"Keep your trap shut!"
"Oh, what strong mouth for such a weak paladin. Why don't you just give up, it's all going to be over soon anyways."
"You won't get away with this Vez'nan." Celestia said.
"Oh now you feel like talking? Well let me tell you something pony, you obviously don't know what your up against. The Juggernaut will come tearing through the castle and kill everyone in sight, but of course it will spare you."
"Why is that?"
"Because I see you as a use in my army. I can use you to destroy other kingdoms."
"I will never do such a thing."
"Oh but you won't have a choice with my corruption spell, it will be all against your will." He gets closer to Celestia. "Then again it might be tougher than I thought, for you don't seem to have a dark past."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Dante asked.
"You see, depending on someones past it will be harder or easier to corrupt them. If someone has a longer or darker past it is easier to corrupt them, but if it's a shorter or purer past, it's harder." He kept channeling through Celestias mind, but when she saw what he was doing, it was too late, he found what he wanted. "So, you have a sister, named Luna and she had a dark past for a thousand years. I could corrupt her in a second."
"You will not use her to do your evil biding!"
"The only way to stop that from happening is to stop my army." He started to fade away. "Oh and paladin, I have your king. Muahahahahaha." His laugh echoed as he faded away. The two didn't know what to make out of this, they only stared at each other blankly, hoping one of them knew what to do.
Roughly fifty minutes later, the eleven finally arrived in Canterlot, they then rushed for the castle.
"So, any idea on how to stop an entire army?" Twilight asked the humans.
"Well it's about a hundred to eleven, so I don't see how we can, they will destroy us." The knight said.
'"We can think of a plan when we get the castle." The wizard said. They where hesitant at first, but all agreed and made their way to the castle. On the way there, all the ponies that they passed where giving strange looks.
"We are they looking at us like that?" The archer asked
"It's because humans have never been in Equestria." Twilight answered.
"No wonder." He thought for a few seconds. " Don't you think we should tell the to stay..." The sentence was cut short when he ran into something. "Ugh, sorry I wasn't watching where I was going."
"I'm sorry as well, I wasn't either." Said a male voice. The two then made eye contact, the archer saw what he had expected, another pony. This pony had a white coat and streaks of light and dark blue in his mane and tail, and he had a shield with three small stars over it and one big purple star on top of it on his flank. The archer was about to say something, but was interrupted by a female voice.
"Shining, are you alright?" This pony was pink with streaks of yellow, pink and purple in her mane and tail. The archer tried to say something but was yet again interrupted, this time by Twilight.
"Shining armor! Cadence!" Twilight hugged them both. "What are you doing here?"
"Well we were going to visit you, but it looks like you came to visit." Shining said.
"Well not exactly, but it's great to see you both."
"I don't mean to interrupt this family reunion..." The archer said gaining the attention of the three. "...but we have an army coming and we are probably the only ones that can determine this castles fate."
"Wait, what army?" Cadence asked.
"I'll explain on the way to the castle." Twilight told them while signaling them to follow, which they willingly did.
"Ugh my head." Spyro said. He felt himself chained up.
"Finally, your awake." A voice said. "Took you long enough."
"Huh?" He looked up. "Who are you?"
"He's Vez,nan, Spyro." Cynder said. She had an angry look on her face.
"Okay, and where are we?"
"We're in his castle." Ember answered.
"Oh, why are we here?"
"Enough with the questions!" Yelled an annoyed Vez'nan. "Look, you're here because I need that dragon!" He pointed towards Cynder. "I know you're going to ask why so I'll tell why. It is because if my Juggernaut fails, I will need to send something else to kill my enemies."
"You can't make her kill them!"
"Oh but I can with my corruption spell. Now if you'll excuse me but I need to check on my armies progress." He turned around and headed towards his balcony, he than brought up a small portal. "Report."
"We are making our way to the castle. We will be there in about thirty minutes."A bandit reported.
"Excellent, do not fail me."
"Yes master." The portal then disappeared and Vez'nan turned around just in time to see Cynders dark fire attack. He put up a shield and blocked the attack.
"Tsk tsk tsk, we're going to have to put a stop to that now wont we?" He summoned three rods out of the ground around Cynder and she was surrounded by red magic. "Oh how I love being an evil master mind."
"You'r sick!" Spyro said.
"Call me what you want I don't give a damn."
"Spyro? Cynder? Ember?" A cyan dragon named Blaze called out. "Where could they be? Probably off on another one of their adventures. Ugh, they always do that without telling me." He was reaching the area of the battle. "Huh? Why do I sense the use of a portal? Where they able to summon portals?" When he got closer he could feel an evil presence. "No, this wan't them, it was something else. I need to retrace it and go through it." He used his retracing spell to summon the portal again, he then went through it. When he was at the other end, he was in front of a purplish castle that had a bunch of strange creatures around it. They seemed to be made out of molten rock and have little cracks of lava all around it. "What is this place?" He looked up and saw a creature on a balcony wearing a cloak, a crown and has a staff. It also had two glowing eyes but he couldn't see its face, he also saw his three friends chained against a wall. "Stupid ape!" Blaze said a bit to loudly alerting a nearby monster. "Uh oh." The creature raised its arms and brought them down in an attempt to crush him, but he dodged with ease. He then used his freeze flame in order to stop the monster but it only froze a portion of it and it didn't cease movement. "What is this thing?" Another one appeared behind him and smacked him to the wall of the castle.
"What is going on down there?!" Vez'nan called from his balcony. The monster known as an magma elemental held up the dragon towards Vez'nan. "Huh? Another dragon? Bring it up to me." He commanded the magmas. The last thing that Blaze saw was him going into the castle before blacking out.
The thirteen made it to the castle and where making their way to the room Celestia was in, but when they got there, they where all met with a surprise.
"Is that a paladin talking to a giant pony?" The dwarven asked.
"That 'giant pony' is the princess of the land, Princess Celestia." Cadence said.
"Huh?" Sir Dante heard them talking and turned towards them. "You guys also got transported here?" He asked.
"What do you think?" The barbarian said rudely but was ignored.
"Princess Celestia there is..." Twilight started.
"I know Twilight, an army." Celestia said.
"Vez'nan paid us a visit." The paladin said.
"He did? Well the best thing to do now is to formulate a plan." The wizard said.
"We're already on it. With the help of the royal guards we should have good odds."
"Yes but my magic is useless with out mana crystals, the archer is almost out of arrows, we only have you, one knight and one barbarian, not to mention the dwarven can't do any thing without his artillery. The odds are not in our favor."
"Um, did you guys already forget about us?" Rainbow Dash asked, making the six turn their way.
"Hm, if you ask me I say the odds are in our favor." The paladin said.
(This scene alternates from Vez'nan to the Mane 6)
"Report." Vez'nan said.
"We are coming up on the castle grounds right now."
"Excellent, from what of seen their defenses are weak. Do not fail this one!"
"Yes master." The portal than vanished and a new portal opened up over the castle.
"Finally! Victory will be mine!"
Back at the castle, everybody (pony) was in their positions, ready for the battle.
"Are you positive this will work?" The musketeer asked the paladin.
"Not entirely, but we must try! We determine this castles fate, if we loose, so do the beings here!"
"Incoming!" The archer yelled. A wave of thirty goblins where approaching.
"Charge!" The knight yelled while running towards the horde with his sword out. He was followed by Rainbow and Applejack, Twilight was using her magic and Pinkie was sending the goblins flying with her party cannon. Fluttershy was in the castle with Rarity since she didn't want to get her hooves dirty. The archer was changing fates with his bow and the musketeer was trying to snipe them but without his partner, it was useless. About twenty goblins where killed and a wave of bandits, ogres, gargoyles and shamans where approaching.
"There's to many, they're beginning to pile up!" The archer yelled.
"There's to many, they're beginning to pile up." Vez'nan mocked. "Haha! Give up, there is no point in trying anymore!"
"Everypony, take cover!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"Ya'll might want to scoot back." Applejack said.
"What is that pony doing?" Vez'nan questioned. He was soon was answered when Rainbow used her sonic boom, causing his eyes to widen. "What is this?! Combustible ponies?!"
"Nice work RD" Applejack said.
"We still have plenty of ogres coming!" The barbarian yelled.
"Yes! Crush, kill, destroy!" Vez'nan said
"Why are you doing this?" Spyro asked.
"I'm the freaking god of hell and evil, what did you expect?"
"ARGH!" The knight yelled as he was whacked away by an ogre. Applejack had her hooves full with an ogre, the barbarian and paladin where also fighting on. The archer and musketeer had just ran out of ammo, Twilight was starting to get tired from constant use of magic, and Rainbow was dealing with the remaining gargoyles.
"Whoa!" Applejack exclaimed as she kept on dodging the attacks of the ogre, which was making it mad. Then the ogre did something unexpected, it brought out its fist and punched AJ in the leg, badly injuring it. She was now helpless on the ground while the ogre was making its way to her.
"Applejack!" Rainbow yelled. When she tried to help her friend she was attacked by some gargoyles, hindering her. The ogre reached Applejack and raised its weapon.
"Yes! Kill it!" Vez'nan yelled. It was about to complete the attack until...
"Avada Kedavra!" A purple beam connected with the ogre and vaporized it into dust.
"NO!" Vez'nan yelled.
Applejack looked towards the source of the beam and saw something that wasn't there before. It was a purple tower with strange markings on it. There was another human on it but it had purple clothing, and there was a crystal floating above him. The paladin was making his way towards Applejack, once he reached her, he used his healing light to heal her leg.
"Thanks." She said.
"Not a problem, and this battle just got easier because our general is back." He pointed towards a human wearing a cape and his hands where glowing yellow, and a few seconds later there was another building that looked like a cannon with another dwarven.
"Finally! My artillery!" The other dwarven ran to it and sat in the chair with a lever next to it.
"Yipikiyea ************." He pulled the lever down and a missal shot out of a little hole and hit a ogre, killing it.
"No, no, NO, NO! This wasn't supposed to happen!" Vez'nan yelled.
"Well it's happening." Ember said with a grin.
"Grrr." He summoned a portal to the Juggernaut. "Start." He simply said and Juggernaut stated moving.
There was a wave of worgs, wulfs, marauders, brigands, and spider matriarchs heading for our heros. The general already had two sorcerer towers, an arcane tower, three 500mm big berthas, two holy orders, a barbarian hall and a rangers hideout built.
"This is becoming pathetic." A barbarian said while killing some spider matriarchs.
"I know, is this Vez'nan guy really powerful because this is easy." Rainbow commented.
"So they think this is easy huh? Well prepare to face your doom!" Vez'nan said.
"Um, if ya'll don't mind me askin but what in tarnation is that?" Applejack point towards a brown blurr.
"Oh, this isn't good." A ranger said.
"Why? Why is this not good?" Twilight questioned. The thing came into view. It had two horns and a v like hole where its eyes should be.
"Incoming Juggernaut!" A paladin yelled. It raised its arm, it opened and a missile shot out of it and it was headed for Rainbow. "Watch out!" The same paladin yelled. Rainbow narrowly dodged it but it turned around and was coming back for her. "You cant outrun it, it's heatseeking!" The paladin said. Rainbow then headed for the Juggernaut which was ready to whack her out of the sky until she went up leaving the missile to hit the Juggernaut in the head, which it did.
"Have a taste of your own medicine!" Rainbow taunted but it didn't seem to affect it much. When a ranger shot an arrow at it, it broke.
"What?" He asked. Then the encyclopedia that the paladin had glowed yellow then vanished.
"What was that?" Twilight asked.
"Can I see that?" The general asked the paladin and he handed it over.
"Hm? Theres a new entry." He said. "Juggernaut 2.0. A stronger version of the Juggernaut which can tear through almost anything with a sheet of steel. Fifteen thousand health, slow speed, and high armor." The Juggernaut than raised its arm again and a ball shot out of it. It exploded on impact and a bunch of golem heads cam out.
"This going to be harder than I thought." The general said while summoning some meteors on top of the Juggernaut.
"Are you sure we're going to be able to beat this?" Twilight asked.
"We have to try!" The general said while summoning reinforcements to destroy the golem heads with the royal guards help. The towers where doing all they can to the Juggernaut but only the arcane and sorcerer towers where doing a good amount of damage. Some of the royal pegasus guards where heading for the Juggernaut.
"No! Don't do that!" A ranger yelled, but it was to late. The Juggernaut swat them out of the air like flies making the all fall unconscious. It was making its way to the castle until a pink pony popped out of the hole in its face.
"Is that pony on a suicidal mission and how did she even get up there?!" A confused barbarian asked.
"Hi." Pinkie said before going back in the hole, causing the Juggernaut to miss and punch himself in the face.
"Wow! You almost got me that time." She was in front of the Juggernaut, she then went behind the it making the Juggernaut miss. "This is fun!" Pinkie said on top of the Juggernauts head. It shot a missile but pinkie disappeared again, making the missile hit the Juggernaut. Pinkie was now on the ground. "You really want to hit me, don..." Before pinkie could finish, she was tackled by some golem heads. The Juggernaut pointed his fist towards Pinkie, who was now frozen in fear. It was about to crush her until.
"Move!" A paladin pushed Pinkie out of the way and took the blow, it crushed and killed him.
"Don't worry he'll be back alive in twelve seconds. My magic revives them." The general said.
"Yea, that's great and all but we still have this gigantic thing!" Rainbow pointed towards the Juggernaut as it pulverized some knights. It finally reached the castle and stood there.
"What is it doing?" A musketeer asked. It then pointed towards the castle and its hand opened and a panel opened on its chest that read "Juggernaut Beam".
"A BEAM?!" A barbarian yelled.
"It could never do that before!" Said an arcane wizard. The percentage bar started going up...fast.
"If the Juggernaut completes this attack, I will claim victory." Vez'nan said with a grin.
Everyone was attacking it with everything they had. It was now at fifty percent when twilight heard a voice calling for her.
"Twilight!" Rarity called. She came out of the castle with the Elements of Harmony, she and Fluttershy already had theirs on.
It was at seventy percent. "Yes." Vez'nan said. Eighty percent. "Yes!" Ninety percent. "YES!" It fired. "VICTORY, IS MINE!" At the same time the Rainbow fired. "Wait, what is this?" The Rainbow connected with the beam and was tearing through it, heading strait for the Juggernaut. It hit it with full force, the Juggernaut was pushed back a couple of yards, it was trying to fight back but it proved to be to great and tore right through it, destroying it. All that was left was the head.
"...Did that count as a magic attack?" A ranger asked.
"To tell you the truth, i'm not sure myself." Said an arcane wizard. Vez'nan stood there, mouth agape, but it quickly turned to anger as his eyes glowed more red.
"HOW IS A DAMN RAINBOW MORE POWERFUL THAN THE JUGGERNAUT BEAM!!" He yelled while pounding his balcony railing, his hands leaving cracks in there wake. The dragons where laughing up a storm.
"Your monster was defeated by a rainbow, that hilarious!" Spyro said
"SILENCE" Vez'nan yelled. It was loud enough send cracks through the walls, goblins heads exploded and it broke Celestias royal cup of tea.It could be heard from ponyville. This instantly shut up the dragons. His expression soften as he put on an evil grin. "Shall we start the corruption now?"
"NO!" Spyro yelled. Vez'nan summoned an ogre and it knocked Cynder out. It the carried her away with Vez'nan behind them.
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"Shall we start the corruption now?"
"NO!" Spyro yelled. Vez'nan summoned an ogre and it knocked Cynder out. It the carried her away with Vez'nan behind them.
"Ugh, my head." Blaze said as resuming consciousness.
"Blaze! Finally you're awake!" Ember said happily.
"Yea. We need your help to get out of these chains. They're corrupting Cynder." Spyro said.
"What?! Okay, give me a second." He grabbed the top chains with his claws and they started to freeze. He broke out and froze the ones on his legs, when he broke out, he froze his friends chains. Once they were all out, they followed Spyro to the place where Vez'nan went with Cynder. The room had bones and skulls with some blood on the walls. There was two magma elementals guarding the entrance to the room.
"Where not going to be able to beat those things. Trust me, I've tried." Blaze said. They then heard the cry of agony from Cynder come from the room. She was engulfed by red aura that was coming from Vez'nans staff.
"Quit resisting! It's futile!" Vez'nan said while concentrating more energy. There was a blinding light that filled the castle. When it was gone, there was the Cynder Spyro fought long ago.
"No." Spyro simply said.
"Well this dragon should be awake in about five minutes." Vez'nan said. "Huh?" He felt the presence of the three dragons. He turned around and resumed anger. "How did you three get out?! Kill them!" He commanded the magmas which they obeyed. Blaze and Ember ran with the magmas close behind while Spyro bolted for Vez'nan. "So you feel confident enough to face me? Well sadly I'm not in the mood to fight." He summoned a barrier and blocked Spyros path. "But that doesn't mean you can escape!"
"Yea it does. Because you trapped yourself in there!"
"Damn It! And these last for about four minutes. Rocket riders, after them!" A bunch of robots wearing jet-packs came out of a near by hall and they where willing to kamikaze into Spyro. He dodged with ease, snickering a little. "You idiots! Use the turbo!" The riders increased in speed, making it harder for Spyro to dodge.
"Spyro! We have to leave now!" Blaze yelled.
"But what about Cynder?"
"We are going to need help first!"
"Maybe those apes that defeated that monster." Ember suggested.
"They are not called apes you idiot! They are called humans!" Vez'nan yelled.
"Come on!" Blaze yelled while flying out of the castle. Ember and Spyro followed close behind.
"Get them! Don't let them escape alive!" Vez'nan commanded the riders and they bolted after them. The chase went on for a good ten minutes until Spyro was struck by one of the riders.
"Spyro!" Ember and Blaze yelled in unison. Before they could get to them, they where hit by two rocket riders. Three more finished the job and they fell towards the ground.
"So, when the Elements of Harmony are activated it can defeat the fiercest of foes?" The general asked.
"Yes, the Elements are the most powerful things know to ponykind." Twilight said. "Now that we got that out of the way, lets get to know each other. My name is Twilight Sparkle."
"I'm Applejack."
"I'm Rarity."
"Rainbow Dash is the name."
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie, Equestrias best party planer. *GASP* That reminds me! I need to throw you all a welcome to Ponyville party! This is going to be the biggest party I ever made!"
"Uh huh." The general leaned towards Twilight. "Is she always like this?"
"Most of the time."
"Oh. And whats your name?" He asked Fluttershy.
"My name is Fluttershy."
"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you."
"My name is Fluttershy."
"One more time?"
"Fluttershy."
"Oh, Fluttershy. I like that name."
"Whats you name?" Twilight asked.
"Just call me the general. As for the rest of the army, just call them by what they are, wizard, knight and the others. Also Twilight I would like to know more about this world. Is there any way I can?"
"Yes, in the royal library. Follow me, I'll lead you there." Twilight lead the general to the library.
"Something tells me this is going to be a long day." Rainbow said.
"So, this is the library?" The general asked.
"Yes." Twilight answered.
"It's certainly bigger than the library back home."
"Equestria has had a long past. How long has your kingdom been around?"
"About five hundred years now. You know, my ancestor was the first to establish the kingdom."
"Wow, thats amazing. Knowing your ancestor established it and now your defending it."
"Yes, yes it is."
"So what are you looking for?"
"I wanted to see if there was more to these Elements."
"Oh, right over here." She leaded him to the area of the Elements.
"Here it is."
"Thank you." He started looking through it.
"Strange."
"What is it?"
"It's just that the characters used for this book, they'er like the ones back at Linirea. I hardly think it's a coincidence."
"Hm."
"Lets not worry about it." He started reading. He read until something caught his eye.
"Mare in the moon?"
"Nightmare moon. She was once sealed away in the moon when she became...corrupted."
"Corrupted?"
"Yes, by jealousy. She became jealous of Celestia because the ponies where enjoying the day light while they slept through the moon light."
"Ah...is she still around?"
"No, we defeated her using the Elements of Harmony. She changed back to Luna who is the princess of the moon."
"Is the spirit of Nightmare moon still in her?"
"No, but she still has the memories."
"Then we can't let Vez'nan get his hands on her."
"Why not?"
"Because if he does, he will corrupt her. Iv'e seen it happen. Back at my home, when we defeated him, his magic spread all across Linirea, it corrupted Greenmuck. Greenmuck was the king of what use to be Forest of Glory. He then spread to the corruption to the guardians and the dead, turning the forest into the Rotten Forest."
"Wow. Vez'nan is really a bad guy, isn't he?"
"Yes, but he wasn't always evil. You see, about ten years ago, Vez'nan was a great wizard. He had powers beyond any ordinary wizard, and he only kept getting better and better. Soon however, our king, King Denas, saw evil in him, as his powers where taking over his mind. He was to be banished from the land, but not without a fight. He used his powers against the kingdom, killing many. After he had claimed victory, my farther used his powers to teleport him away from the kingdom. He left with these words, 'I'll be back! And this entire kingdom will be burnt to the ground!'"
"Oh. Um, general?"
"Yea?"
"Do those monster usually drop gems?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"It's because when we where fighting them, they dropped some." Twilight pulled out some from her saddle bag and handed them to the general.
"Hm, strange they never did before. Let's keep them, they may serve to be useful later."
"Ok, hey, do you think I can look at your book?"
"Yeah, here." He handed it to Twilight.
"So, if I kill these beings, you'll pay me top dollar?"
"Yes, you kill them, and I'll make sure you have enough money to by as many kingdoms as you want." Vez'nan said.
"Hm...fine." The person then left.
"*Sigh* Like that guy doesn't have enough money." He said to himself. "Those bandits better do me well. Which reminds me, are my bandits making that armor for that dragon? If they aren't, I'LL BE SURE TO HAVE THEIR HEADS!"
"Are you done, my lord?" A dark knight asked.
"Yes, yes, what is it?"
"We have completed the armor for the dragon..."
"Excellent."
"...but we can't put it on her, it's like trying to tame a wild puppy."
"INSOLENCE! YOU IDIOTS COULDN'T TAME A TREE!" He unleashed his power, frying the knight. Leaving behind a helmet and a pile of bones. " *Sigh* I'll be there to tame the dragon." He looked at the bones. "Ah, I see you are speechless by my power." He then left the room and reentered into the room with Cynder, only to be hit by a marauder. "GET OFF OF ME YOU IDIOT!" He then turned the bandit into a pile of bones.
"Stay still lizard!" A dark slayer yelled.
"WHAT IS GOING ON!" Vez'nan yelled.
"We can't get the armor on the dragon!"
"Let me handle it." Red aura than connected to Cynders head and she instantly calmed down. "Now get the armor on, and hurry!" He left the room. "What is Denas' army up to?" He summoned a small portal to the army. "...They are talking to the ponies... Why?"
"So, you are one with the animals?" A ranger asked Fluttershy. They were at the royal gardens.
"Oh yes, my talent is to be able to talk to the animals." Fluttershy said, now less shy.
"Amazing. In a way we are alike. You see rangers are one with the forest, we learn to use the plant life to our advantage. We use the trees as cover, poison from certain plants and spiked weeds."
"To hurt things?"
"...Yes. But not just anything. We only use it on Vez'nan's army. So don't worry." Their conversation was cut short when hey heard an explosion off in the distance.
"What in Celestia's name are these things?!"
"Why are you asking me?! Instead of asking me, what about destroying these things?!"
