Crystal Empire.

The moment the alarm sounded I sent the two guards off before teleporting to my room where a couple of servants were waiting along with my combat armor.

Less than five minutes later I appeared at the top of the tower in a flash of teleportation.

Different from the armor and cape combo I use to wear, the combat armor covered my whole body.

Silvery greaves covered my hooves along with the front of my legs and segmented plate armor ran from my flanks to the front of my chest.

Under all the plate a black scale-like bodysuit covered me all the way to the base of my head protecting anything not covered in the plate.

If anyone were to look closely they would notice something inscribed in each individual "scale".

My head was covered in a helmet that left only my lower jaw free.

I channeled magic through a specific rune on the inside of the helmet a moment later Steel Bolt's slightly panicked voice was heard.

"My Lord." He exclaimed. "The scrying squad has detected a massive source of dark magic coming from the west city sector."

"I know." I said grimly, the moment I had first felt it I barely needed a second to sense where it was coming from.

"What are your orders, my Lord." Asked Steel Bolt.

"Send orders for all districts to evacuate to the castle, but send as many guards as you can to the western district to get the district out of there." After a moment of thinking I spoke again. "Once all the civilians are in the castle activate the barriers, I'll deal with whatever this is."

"Wait, my Lord, please, let us bac-"

Whatever he was going to say was interrupted as with a flash of light and a massive tremor that was felt even from up here, half the west sector suddenly turned into a massive crater.

A moment later a distorted and echoing laugh reached my ears.

"All civilians to the castle, NOW." I ordered.

"Yes my Lord." This time he didn't question me and a second later the connection was cut.

Looking at the massive crater I ignored the sounds of panic emerging all over the city as I teleported to the center of it.

I narrowed my eyes as I stared at the laughing figure before me.

Towering over me was what I could only call a pony of shadows.

With the wings, the backward-pointing horn, and the completely white eyes I wouldn't have recognized him as Sombra if it weren't for the horn's crimson tip and the green fire flowing around his eyes.

"Ah well if it isn't" I didn't bother listening to him as with a thought a wave of white energy burst from my bell and engulfed him.

I frowned as I didn't hear him make a single noise and when the energy stopped flowing my eyes widened as I saw him standing there completely unharmed.

He started laughing again before speaking. "Fool, I'm being powered by a whole DIMENSION, such a small amount of power will not be able to vanquish me."

My anger started to rise as he laughed but after a moment I calmed down and thought of something.

"Oh." I wondered out loud.

"Are you saying that I just need to use more then." I asked him as I raised an eyebrow.

Judging by the fact that he stopped laughing and growled at me I was right.

"Very well then." A so spoke the bell shone as I prepared a blast bigger than the last one.

Before I could fire my vision was suddenly filled with black.

My pupils shrank to pinpricks as my instincts screamed at me and I instantly created a shield in front of me, diverting the massive wave of dark magic to my sides.

After the magic stopped I looked behind me and snarled as I saw the two massive trenches going through the city.

They had barely missed the castle.

"Do you take me for an idiot, I will not sit still while you charge the crystal heart you fool."

Turning back to him I spoke. "Then I guess I'll just beat you into the ground and get myself some time."

As he charged his magic I did the same while thinking on how to hold him down long enough to charge the crystal bell to a point it would either kill him or send him back to the abyss.

Sadly I didn't know just how much I would need for it to work, for all I know I'll have to charge it from anywhere from ten seconds to a full minute.

I was broken out if my thoughts by something impacting with my face.

A second later I blinked as I realized I was staring at the sky as I flew through the air.

Then before my brain could catch up to my body I smashed through a building, and the next, and the next.

When I stopped I barely had time to regain my bearings and stand up before a beam of black magic slammed into me, creating an explosion that blew the entire block surrounding the building to pieces.

As I lay in pain among the rubble a black figure landed on the ground in front of me.

"What's the matter little goat." Mocked Sombra.

Before I could say anything he smashed a hoof into my chest.

I could barely let a noise out as the pressure on my chest increases and I started to hear cracking sounds.

"I hope that's the armor." I thought.

"You see, every moment that passes the more powerful I become, eventually there will be none capable of standing in my way."

As he gloated Sombra mistakenly stopped pressing down on me.

Finally being able to breathe I did the fastest thing I could and simply smashed my hoof full force against the side of his leg.

As he backed away with a scream of pain I quickly stood up, a quick glance down showed me that the chest of my armor was cracked.

A moment later I had to duck as a massive hoof swiped the air where my head used to be.

Sombra was sent flying as a blast hit him in the chest, he didn't fly very far and quickly stabilized himself.

As I saw him turn back towards me and charge his magic I quickly formed a shield surrounding me.

An explosion even bigger than the last engulfed me, but, this time I was able to protect myself I didn't receive any damage.

A moment later I flew out of the cloud of dust in a pair of astral wings.

Thankfully Grogar had done this enough times in his life that it wasn't too difficult.

As Sombra tried to charge his magic he was interrupted as I teleported behind him and shot a beam of magic that sent him into the ground.

Looking down at the hole he had been buried into I barely dodged to the side as a sphere of shadows almost as big as a house flew past me.

I frowned as I saw Sombra just standing there with a smirk in his face.

Noticing a shadow covering me I turned around.

My eyes barely had the time to widen as the sphere of shadows, now almost the size of the palace exploded.

And then everything I knew was black.

For a minute, all that could be seen of the capital was a twisting mass of darkness.

Above it floated a pony of shadows, laughing as his power grew and grew.

After a moment the shadows receded back into Sombra and the city's condition was revealed.

The palace itself was largely undamaged, the protective shields holding strong despite the multiple cracks along their surface.

The surrounding city wasn't as lucky, anything not simply turned into dust was rubble, not a single building remained standing.

Among the rubble, a figure could be seen panting in panting in pain a sit tried to stand up.

The figure was Greema, his armor completely gone, and calling his current state severe was an understatement.

His body was littered with cuts of various sizes, many even showing the bone underneath.

Various patches of fur were missing and showed the muscle underneath, and his right horn was snapped in half.

The reason he hadn't stood up yet was apparent as his right front leg had several deep cuts that almost severed it, it was barely hanging by some strips of skin and muscle.

But by far the worst injury was on his head.

While the left side was fine besides some deep cuts here and there the right side of his face was a different story entirely.

Not only was his right eye gone but a cut almost as wide as his eye socket cut right through the cranial bone, leaving a gash on his skull that went all the way to his ear.

After a moment he gave up on standing and simply slumped on the ground.

As I lay on the ground in the ruins of what used to be a city I could only think about how much it hurt.

"Damn it, Damn it." I cursed in my mind, too tired and hurt to speak.

The only reason I was still alive despite the blood loss and the fact that my brain was basically exposed was mainly due to my special physiology and my magic working overtime to keep me alive.

And even then it was a close call after all my armor had lasted a surprisingly long time, breaking just before the spell stopped.

For a whole two seconds, I got to experience what it felt like to be inside a tornado that simultaneously tried to turn you into mincemeat and erase your existence.

If the spell had lasted a second longer I would be dead, simple as that.

Hearing explosions I glanced in their direction and noticed Sombra shooting at the palace, slowly but surely I could see it's barriers breaking.

Well, the good news where the bell had charged enough.

The bad news was that with the citizens in the four districts not really knowing what was happening and the one's inside the palace probably thinking I was dead I didn't have enough love to activate the bell.

I could use my own magic to do it but I barely had enough for maybe a high-level spell, and that was if I pushed it.

So in short, I had what was necessary to defeat Sombra but I didn't have enough love or magic to use it...magic.

Magic.

Looking towards Sombra an idea came to me, it had a high chance of killing me but It was also the course of action with the highest chance of success.

I didn't bother trying to stand up as I knew if I put any pressure on my right leg it would just fall to pieces.

I started channeling my magic and a moment later I disappeared in a red flash.

High above Sombra stopped his assault on the castle as I suddenly appeared on his back.

"What are you AAAAGH." He stopped talking as I bit down as hard as I could.

It tasted even worse than the last time but it worked, as I absorbed more of his magic my own was slowly being replenished and instantly being sent into the bell.

I grunted in pain but didn't stop biting as multiple spears made of shadow spouted from him and pierced my body.

Distantly I felt what was probably my lung or heart being destroyed and my right foreleg flying trough the air.

"Not yet." I thought as I felt myself blacking out.

"I just need a little mo-" My thoughts were interrupted as I felt a massive pulse of magic and love coming from the south.

And just like that, I had enough.

I didn't even question the sudden miracle as with renewed energy I activated the bell.

For a moment I felt nothing as my world was bathed in white.

Then everything came back and I could barely hear Sombras final death throes as he simply came apart below me.

Then I was falling as he ceased to exist.

With the damage I had taken catching up to me the impact with the ground sealed the deal and I blacked out.

Around the same time.
Crystal Mountains.

Just a moment after Greema felt the wave of love and magic multiple black blurs could be seen hurling through the air at high speed.

While some flew over the mountains and eventually landed in the snow others weren't as lucky and smashed straight into them, dying instantly.

A blur noticeably bigger than the rest clipped the top of a mountain, breaking it off, before falling towards the snow below.

Author's Note

Well, this was nice.
I can't believe I posted a chapter the day after the other.
I hope you liked it.
Also if you haven't checked it yet, take a look at my other story and give me your thoughts about it.
As always I appreciate feedback so feel free to point out major grammatical errors if you notice them.