A Roegadyn in Equestria

A Roegadyn in Equestria.

Chapter 52: Goth Comes To Town.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*
*Location: Ponyville, inside of his hotel room*
*Time: Five days later*

Brex had just gotten back to his room after having a sleepless night after going back to HQ and spending some time with Rory. Since the last time that he had got to meet Luna and Celestia. Brex have not gone to sleep then and has been pretty busy during the night in order to get his preparations ready for what was soon to come. In fact, just that very evening, the Roegadyn had just put the finishing touches on his latest project within his personal laboratory that was isolated from the rest of the underground compound. Of course, that was only after first giving some attention to his girlfriend and two attentive maids.

Right now, he was at this very moment going over his attire and using a spell in order to get rid of a patch of oil that was staining his left upper arm sleeve and a portion of his chest. As he was doing that, Brex would mumble to himself in a slightly agitated tone. “How many times do I need to keep saying to that girl that she needs to calm the fuck down? I said I just needed another five more minutes, but she ends up busting down the door and to giving me a tackling hug when I'm in the middle of something that required my full attention.”

“The girl should count herself as being really lucky that she didn't do that a few seconds earlier. Otherwise, there might have been a big explosion! I swear! I seriously cannot tell if that's just a real personality trait of hers or if that's something I did to her after getting that body. Because she always gets way too excited whenever I get back for the night. If I was still in the middle of funneling energy into that device, them I am pretty sure it would not have turned out very good for either of us.”

That was when he had finished his cleaning preparations and went over to the one window for his room and opened it up in order to stick his head through to see just what was going on in the town this morning. Once he did and had a few moments to do so, he pulled his head back inside and shrugged to himself as he began to speak out loud again. “I guess this might be another one of those easy days. I wonder if I'm going to keep running into that mare again?”

What Brex was referring to, was the one known as Bon Bon. Ever since the day that Gilda and Rainbow started to patch up their friendship again. He had noticed how Bon Bon would be around town more than usual instead of running her candy shop. Honestly, he didn't really understand if these ponies knew much when it came to being inconspicuous, but the mare didn't make it too difficult to spot her whereabouts.

Even on occasion during the night, whenever he was out and about on any late-night quests or personal errands. He would pick up on his radar someone who was watching from the shadows with far more efficiency than Bon Bon could ever hope to accomplish with her current skills. When he had gotten close enough, he was able to use one of the spells from The Dungeons & Dragons list to give him night vision. That couple together with his other abilities, gave Brex a good view of the nighttime watcher he apparently had tailing him.

He had to contain a smirk at the time when he saw that it was a Thestral that was clearly in a leather type of stealth armor that was in the same style in which Luna's Night Guards were mostly dressed up in. Honestly, he didn't think it was going to take the pair of rulers this long to track him down with all the small little ripples he was creating.

That wasn't the only thing that happened over the course of the handful of days that passed. Only two days ago did he have to contend with, The Great and Powerful Trixie! Who made an appearance in town to put on a show. Yet again, it went pretty much the same way as in the story with only some minor alterations here and there. Of course, Brex wanted to do some tampering to see if the event could be altered. But he decided to let things go and only butt in when it was truly necessary.

He knew how Spike was going to keep pushing Twilight. Saying that she was the best and of course the purple Unicorn was going to see herself as the target of resentment if she was to go along with showing off her powers and place herself in the same category as Trixie. Brex thought about trying to convince Spike about the importance of how one shouldn't boast so much but thought that this was a learning experience for the Dragon. So, he really didn't try to change that part.

But when it came to how Trixie had been hackled by all of Twilight's friends during the show. Brex witnessed how things were just a little more serious when it came to Trixie's counter tricks. For example, the way that Applejack was tied up, had been done in a way where the ropes had been tied and such a way that she was pretty much in a turtle style rope bondage setup that insinuated the way her breasts were pressing against her shirt.

Along with the fibers digging into her crotch as they went between the legs. As for the apple that was meant to be placed in her mouth at the end. It had been run through so when it was placed in the mare’s mouth, it was tied so it wouldn’t be coming out all that easily.

When it came to Rainbow, instead of coming to a sliding stop at the end of the Rainbow-colored tornado that she was thrown into. She had instead hit the ground with a heavy thud and was pretty much knocked out from the impact. Now, as for Rarity, Brex thought that she had the worst of it.

Not only had her hair been turned green and style to look as though it was a literal rat’s nest. But Trixie had somehow managed to get a hold of an actual rat and thrown it in there so that it was sticking its head out right as all of the other ponies we're looking straight at Rarity. This of course, sent the Unicorn running for her house in tears and scramming that she cannot possibly be seen in such a dreadful state.

Of course, when it came to the part where Spike was trying to get Twilight to stand up the light-blue show Unicorn. She had made a hasty retreat after making an excuse about laundry calling. But not until she tried her hand at playing down her magical strength as the rest were turning towards her after hearing Spike talking so highly of Twilight’s skills and pleading to show the mare up.”

Later on, when the two small children who were avid fans of Trixie, went ahead and lured a large bear that was easily bigger than one of the regular size two-story buildings into town. Brex was within the Shadow Realm within moments as soon as the chaos started and he was sure that whoever was tailing him during the night, had been effectively distracted by the ensuing screams of terror.

Unlike in the show, where the only real damage done to the town was when the bear had intentionally bit off a roof of some random building. Here, there was quite a bit more damage as it made its way through and between the buildings as it batted its front hind legs into whatever was even close to getting in its path.

This meant object such as a wagon, street lamps, fire hydrants and mailboxes had been tossed into the side of the nearby buildings. Most of which were superficial and could easily be fixed later, but at least a few had broken windows or their front doors were smashed in. There was even one mailbox that had gotten stuck inside of a tree after getting launched a fair ways away.

Seeing that last one, made Brex shake his head in sympathy as he quickly thought about how much trouble the mail mare Ditsy Doo, was going to have in delivering the mail tomorrow. The Roegadyn followed closely so that he could give assistance in reducing the damage by switching over to his Scholar class and equipping his level seventy gear and grimoire that has been glamoured into his usual outfit and a common looking book that any would find laying around.

Trixie, while being pampered to her need to show off because of the two young kids who kept believing in her lies about slaying in Ursa Major. Unsteadily stepped forward while wearing her magician's outfit. This time around she had even summoned from what Brex assumed to be her dimensional storage a long white staff with a star being held within a crescent moon on the very top.

(Here is a picture of Trixie.)

But as the giant star bear had gotten closer to the Unicorn and the two colts. The children had flipped out and ran screaming after hearing it giving a roar, only to leave Trixie alone. Just as the Ursa was getting close, the blue Unicorn went and lost her privado and turned around to run. Instead, she ended up tripping on a part of her outfit that was low enough so that her hoof had stepped on it by mistake as she turned her body. Because of this, she had hit the floor with a heavy thud and released her grip on her staff, which tumbled several feet away.

She was at this moment, right next to her wagon and it was only a few seconds from getting crushed with her along with it, as the bear had gotten onto its hind legs in order to drop its full body weight onto the mode of transportation. That was when Brex stepped out of The Shadow Realm on the other side of the street where he was shrouded in the shadows, thanks to the moon being at just the right angle in the sky. He had flung his book open in his left hand and began to channel a spell that was directed at Trixie’s general position.

The spell in question, had fired out of the pages of the grimoire and made its way in an instant over to the mare that was frozen on the ground in fear. There was then a shower of yellow and green sparks that emitted from the point of impact and from there, a bubble of sorts had expanded quickly enough that it not only encompassed the Unicorn performer, but the wagon as well.

Which happened to be just in time to intercept the heavy attack coming from the bear as it slammed into the barrier that was created. At the point in which it made contact, there was a large four-pointed diamond that intersected in the middle as they came together to signify that it had blocked the incoming damage to those within.

What Brex had used, was a single target spell known to the Scholar, that not only heals the target, but also gives them a protective field at intercepts all incoming damage that is equal to a certain amount, depending on how much power was put into the healing that would have been received. Brex had put a lot more of his magic, into this which allowed it to become large enough to protect not only the Unicorn, but her possessions as well.

At the time, Trixie had covered her head in fear of getting mortally injured, so he was pretty sure that she had not even noticed the barrier being put up and just left it at that. Seeing as it would fade over time. Afterwards, he sat back and watched as Twilight finally arrived at the scene and used her own magic to subdue the large bear by creating music with the wind and giving it milk through a small water tower to be used as a bottle, thanks to her levitation.

He even had to contain a loud whistle from being impressed with the way she was able to pick up such a large object, along with the bear and send it all the way back into its cave within the Ever Free Forest without so much as jostling it awake.

Of course, it was later on found out once they had all gotten together, that what attacked them was not in Ursa Major. But an Ursa Minor, which was just a small baby by comparison to that of a fully grown adult. Pretty much every one of them had their jaws dropping while Twilight was oblivious by the way she kept on going on about what she had learned while reading up on them, thanks to Trixie’s bragging.

As for Trixie herself, even though her wagon was not destroyed. She still vowed that she would return to prove that she was the most powerful Unicorn there is. But it seemed like she had left on slightly better terms this time around, seeing as she didn't use a smoke bomb and run immediately after. But instead, took her wagon and left. Albeit still rather hastily.

But before Trixie left Ponyville, Brex had already placed an icon above her head so that he would be able to pick her up quickly if she were to come in range of his mini map. It also helped that now that he had met her in person, he could now use Heaven's computer to locate her current whereabouts whenever he felt like it.

The Roegadyn even made it a point to find Gilda and have her tell Rainbow that she and her friends need to stop any rumors from escaping Ponyville that would implicate Trixie as the cause of their town being attacked. Especially when it was in fact the doing of two small children that brought the Ursa Minor in due to a misunderstanding.

This way, the traveling performer would still have work and not be banned from any other towns and make a living, instead of putting everything she had into getting back at Twilight and her friends. Hopefully, this will either remove her as a major threat or just down grade her to a normal rivel that won’t take the town hostage.

It took a little work on Gilda’s part. But she got around to telling Brex that the message was sent. Although she did seem rather confused as to why he wanted her to do that, but he ended up brushing It off when she asked. Afterwards, he sensed that his two observers were back to action during the course of the next couple of days.

It was pretty much clockwork with Bon Bon keeping an eye on him from nearly sunup to sundown. As for the Thestral, that obviously came from Luna. That one would do the same from the moment the sun went down and then till it came back up again. Keeping him in their sights whenever possible from in the crowds, to that of the shadows.

The only time that Brex really had any personal time to himself from either of them, was whenever he brought Gilda into the Ever Free Forest for any quests or training exercises that were conducted by him as her teacher. Taking into account her current class and level, he judged that the Griffin needed to work on a number of factors when it came to actual combat in regards to going up against a strong opponent.

Now as for the present time. The both of them were back at it again after taking a thirty-minute jog into the Ever Free to their usual sparing spot. This was so that they wouldn’t have to worry around getting others involved with the sight of a male getting attacked by a female.

It was something that he had found nestled near one of the smaller mountains that had some water running through a tiny stream. The terrain had a good mix of rough and flat areas that was roughly fifty meters wide. There was even a formation of rocks that came up and over portion of it from above that made it fairly well hidden from any that could be flying high above.

There was then a loud scream that came from Gilda as she swung down with her spear and produced a loud metal upon stone ringing sound that echoed through the nearby trees. She had quickly wiped her brow due to the heavy sweating she was going through, even though she was wearing a white tank top and her usual cut up shorts. At the same time, only a few meters away in front of her, stood Brex while taking on a victory pose with his legs being partly spread and both of his fists sitting on his hips.

As Gilda was breathing heavily and staring daggers at him, which was standard at this point. She called out as she was trying to take in a heavy breath of fresh air. “And you said you're going to be taking it easy on me? I seriously doubt that… Jerk! I still can't understand how you're able to move so fast when you’re that big of a target.”

Brex gave a small chuckle while turning his back on her as he spoke. However, he spoke in an odd pattern that made Gilda tilt her head in confusion, along with giving an unamused stare. “Skills be polished, you must! Do not think you will hit, just do!”

Afterwards, Brex return to his normal way of speaking as he went on. “You got the basics down pretty good if I must say. Hmmm… Although, you need to make it your own. Every person is different and if you follow the uniform style of fighting, then you're no different than any other. For example, one fighter might be double jointed while another is not. One might be right-handed, while another is left-handed. One might want to be defensive, while the next is more of an in-your-face type that won’t mind getting hurt.”

“Gilda… I quite literally went through the trouble of restricting my overall strength to something closer to your own level. If I'm being frank, the speed in which I'm using right now causes me real discomfort in a way. It's no different than me running in waist deep in muddy water.”

“So, hear me when I say this. If you were to be fighting me at my full strength, then you wouldn't even have time to blink those pretty little eyes of yours before it was all over.” Hearing this only made Gilda roll her eyes and disbelief, while giving a quick scoff before they went at it once again with Gilda lunging at him with the use of her wings to gain some altitude.

During each one of her attacks, she would use a number of strikes that would alternate between stabbing and wide sweeps. There are even a few fake out where she would twirl it around her body. As Gilda did this, Brex would effortlessly dodge each one of the incoming moves with as little movement possible on his part. Gilda's weapon would come within mere inches and slicing away at his robes, but she would only hit nothing but air for the most part.

With each attack, Brex would call out something that Gilda needed to work on and made sure that the comments were loud enough that he was pretty much barking them with an amused voice. “Nope, try again! You used too much force on that one! No-no, you used too much speed this time, don't sacrifice your accuracy for that! Good, good. just make sure you follow through when doing that!”

“Be mindful of projecting your movements, you don't want your opponents to dodge your attacks too easily due to your weapon size giving away your attack pattern. Only telegraph as a form of deception. Careful about too much power, you don't want the backlash from your strike to cause you to lose your grip! That's better, but pace yourself.”

“There are going to be times where your opponent is going to try and outlast you! Gilda, don't let me set the pace of the fight, take control. learn to make your opponent dance to your rhythm, don't give them a chance to read the moment, change it up once in a while!”

Nearly a half hour had passed from then and Gilda was completely out of air with the way she was using her spear to hold up her body. With legs shaking and her grip barely being strong enough to prevent herself from sliding down her own spear.

Brex had gotten around to calling it quits for the day and they were just packing up their things. Well, the only one that was really packing up with Gilda and Brex had switched over to his White Mage class and fix the rocky terrain with a careful application of his stone attack spells so that it was flat once again.

As Gilda was putting the last of her stuff away. Brex had opened up his options tab and selected his level sink section and raised it from level fifteen all the way back up to seventy. Gilda was only a few levels lower, but thanks to his years of extensive fighting, paired along with her inexperience, was the only reason he was able to avoid her attacks in the way he was. As he was thinking about what to do next. Brex had received a message from Rory. In her usual upbeat attitude, the two conversed with one another within his head while keeping an eye on Gilda.

“Oh master~. I'll be arriving in Ponyville soon. The conductor just announced it as the next stop. I see that you're just now finishing up with Gilda’s training a bit early this time. Are you positive that you wish me to come now, instead of when he agreed upon years ago? We still have some time before I get to Ponyville to call this off and go with our original plan of waiting until the gala.”

“No, no. As convenient as it is to visit you every night. I do miss how we would spend our days together and felt that now is as good a time as any. By the way, how's that disguise working out for you?”

“Master, you don't have anything to worry about. Unlike yourself, I already have a pair of ears and a tail. So, as long as I keep my pony form as close as possible to my own, then there won't be any issues if I end up bumping into others.”

“What about when you going to combat. Did you and the girls work out that little hiccup where the illusion would get dispelled once the fighting starts?”

“I got plenty of help from Rin and Lin thanks to their Changeling magic being added to it. The illusion is pretty much physically stable. But as far as the time limit goes for reapplying, that's apparently something that we can't overcome right now. It also helps that my form is close enough to the form I want, that it doesn’t put much of a strain on the magic. Although it still bugs me after all this time to walk around in boots. Whenever I look at my feet and see these hooves. It always seems to mess up the way I walk for some reason.”

“Well then, all you need to do is not look at your feet and you'll be just fine. I wish I could just bring you straight here, but it would seem really suspicious if a hot young girl like you were to suddenly appear in town. Which is exactly why you're taking the train from Canterlot.”

“Hehe-Hehe-Hehe! Spending a few days with Fleur was actually pretty fun. The other two are staying up there for now at the manor. It's been quite some time since I got to have a girl’s day out. A little shopping, some coffee at an outdoor café.”

“I suppose it doesn't count when you're underground, even with the shops we got there back at HQ. Anyway, I should be back in town within the next forty minutes or so. Of course, that's if we don't get distracted by anything being stupid enough to attack us on the way.”

“Master, I doubt anything that could put two brain neurons together would take the chance of going after you while in there. They all pretty much know you're sent by now. Even the Timberwolves and Hydras know to steer clear of you. Even if you do appear to me a tempting target with Gilda there, I doubt they would do anything with you around. But still, it's rather inconvenient to have to keep holding back the knowledge from others that you have the ability to teleport. The only ones that know that you can do this are Rin, Lin and myself.”

“But I feel as though I can let you know that ever since I stepped out of Fancy Pants manor. I've been getting a lot more attention from the ponies on the streets, as well as those on the train. Even more so than normal.”

Brex gave a mental chuckle as he replied. “Well, can you blame them for looking? I got a smoking hot girlfriend who can literally rip monsters to shreds with her bare hands. Don't you remember in the beginning, how you would get invitations from not only the stallions, but the mare’s to join their herds?”

“Please Master, don't remind me of those times... It was all well and fun in the beginning, but a few of them turned into a real problem. It wasn't until that time that I understood what both you and Fleur went through when you kept getting all that attention. It can get rather annoying.”

“Well Rory, all that I ask is that you do not tar and feather Rainbow when you get there. And I'm not talking about just that either. No cutting off limbs or plucking each and every one of her primary feathers out. No attempting to poison, stabs, smash or otherwise cause any bodily harm that would result in permanent damage through the body and or mind.”

“But Master! Are you sure I can't rough her up, even a little bit? I mean, she'll be fine after some healing spells were applied afterwards.” This got Rory a stretch of silence before she continued. “Okay, okay. I promise I won't do anything like that Master. Oh, looks like the train is about to pull up to the station. I'll see you soon!”

*Point of view: Rarity*
*Location: Ponyville, Outdoor Café*

Rarity was at this moment, enjoying some tea after going out for a short break. She had been quite busy with extra orders. After just taking another small sip from her cup and placing it back down again onto the saucer provided. The fashionista had her eyes glued onto a magazine that featured the super model wearing a nice cocktail dress, known as Fleur De Lis on the front cover.

After several pages of reading into the magazine. She had come to a stop and was completely transfixed on a photo that contained the celebrity, along with an unknown Earth Pony wearing an outfit that she just could not stop herself from admiring and the beverage being forgotten.

The picture on the page was taken by one of the paparazzi and showing the pair to be sitting at a table for an outside diner. From under her breath, Rarity was mumbling to herself as she took in every detail that she could of the black and red fashionable outfit that the Earth Pony mare was wearing. There was even this adorable head ornament that lined up with her ears.

Although she had an inquisitive look that crossed her face when her attention was briefly drawn towards the object that was laying nearby that was covered in a purple cloth. Whatever it was, turned out to be flat and wide at one end and quickly turned into a long thin piece for most of it.

It only took less than a second before her attention was brought back to the girl, but it all came to an end when she heard Twilight calling out to all the ponies while standing on one of the short Bridges that was not far from where she sat. She informed them all about there being a Dragon that was producing a thick layer of black smoke that was just then creeping along the sky.

Rather reluctantly, Rarity had to put up a closed for the day sign on her shops front door after getting home. A short time later, she and her friends gathered together in order to head towards the mountain that the smoke was coming from. The white mare had packed a good assortment of traveling attire before double-checking the rapier that was slipped into its harness that was on her left hip.

There was even a small object that could barely be held in her grip, that was comprised of a blue gem in the center that was of the same color as her cutie mark. This was the second half of her weaponry. Which would float nearby and attach to the hilt of her sword in order to cast the long-range spells that she had in her possession as a Red Mage.

The group had barely made it out of town and were heading towards a tall mountain off in the distance because Twilight had been issued a command by Princess Celestia to see the Dragon and persuade it to leave their lands. But at the moment, all Rarity could think about was the mound of gold and precious gems that such a creature could possibly have in its lair. This led to a number of daydreams which consisted of Rarity holding up a diamond that was easily twice her size in her magical grip.

Rarity could just vaguely hear something going on between Twilight and Fluttershy while the purple Unicorn was going over their plans before finally leaving Ponyville. But before things could go much further, there was a voice that she did not recognize coming from the direction of the town. “Isnt this very interesting. I'm not even here for more than five minutes and there's already talks about there being a Dragon problem? Now there's no way I'm going to be left out of something as fun as this!”

Not only did Rarity turn to see who was talking, but so did all of those present. It only took a second before Rarity's eyes shot open and she had the hold in a gasp of surprise upon the site of the very mare that she had just been studying from her magazine only earlier. She was even wearing the exact same outfit and carrying the item that was in the picture. Only now, it was without its covering to reveal a stylish axe that was painted purple.

(Here is a picture of Rory along with her signature outfit and weapon. Just picture her with darker skin and as an anthro pony, with a black mane and tail.)

But before she could say anything. Rainbow had zipped over while slightly hovering off the ground to get into the mare’s face before talking in an accusatory tone. “I don't know who you think you are, but you should leave this to the professionals! We don't need some pony who isn't even old enough to even be holding onto a knife to come along with this out of the blue.

For Rarity, she didn't know much of anything in regards to this mare, aside from a small amount that was written in the article. Saying that she was randomly seen with Fleur De Lis only a few days ago in Canterlot. But due to her look and the style of her clothing, the mare has been getting a lot of attention just from that one photo alone.

But from Rarities point of view. She could not have been older than seventeen. This of course caused her to become somewhat worried and was just about to step into the conversation in an attempt to word out what Rainbow was saying in a better way.

However, just as Rarity had come forward and was about to open her mouth. The mare had pulled out from her pocket, what was undeniably a Adventures plate and held it between her thumb and index finger so that it was facing towards the group to be easily seen.

Name: Rory Mercury.

Age: Classified.

Level: Classified.

Race: Classified.

Gender: Female.

Class: Marauder.

weapon specialty: Great axe.

Adventuring Guild Rank: Rank D.

Applejack could be heard giving a long whistle before she spoke in an impressed tone and also tilting the front of her hat up slightly. “Well, I'll be! To think we got a rank “D” in our town! I don't know about the rest of y'all, but she's got me beat.” Rainbow had crossed her arms and gave a quick harrumph as she turned herself away, that easily showed off how much she was feeling annoyed.

As Twilight was leaning in to get a good look at the plate. Pinkie was jumping in place, but had not said much of anything due to the pink Pony covering her mouth and obviously hiding a grin. Twilight pulled away after a few seconds and was giving Rory a hard stare down and lifting an eyebrow before speaking. “Okay then Miss Mercury.” The purple Unicorn was quickly interrupted when Rory had spoken up. “I would prefer it if you would just call me Rory if it's all the same.”

Twilight had coughed into her right hand before going on with what she was about to say before. “I can't help but notice that a lot of the information is not showing up. I think you might have a defective plate on your hands. Anyhow, I don't think you should be coming along since this is an assignment given to us straight from Princess Celestia herself.

Twilight had placed a hand over her chest and had her eyes closed the show that she was proud to be given the assignment. Due to this, Rarity was the only one to catch the smallest of eye twitches to come from Rory when Princess Celestia’s name was mentioned. This of course was filed away in the back of her mind for the future.

The new pony then started whirling the axe in her fingers a few times without showing that it wasn’t all that heavy for her, before letting it rest on her right shoulder and giving them a confidence smirk. Then she spoke in a playful tone that had the effect of sending a chill to run up Rarity’s spine. “Oh, but I must insist. You're about to go against a fully grown Dragon judging by how much smoke there is. I’m honestly surprised that you would be sent alone, considering your current abilities.

“Would I be right to assume that the rest of your force is waiting just up ahead for you to rendezvous with?” This got a heavy silence from the group as they were all looking towards one another before glancing at Twilight for any answers.

The purple Unicorn then took a step forward in an attempt to look more confident before she replied. “Uh, no. It's just us. We're more than enough for this assignment. After all, we have the resident expert on animals in our group. With her, we will know exactly how to handle a Dragon.”

This had got Rory to give her a questionable look over, before giving a slight shrug. She then said, “It is always better to have more than you need, rather than not having it when the time comes. An extra weapon would be rather useful in case your first plan fails. But I promise I will not interfere unless I am needed. Twilight was scratching her chin and after a few moments, she relented and allowed Rory to join them as they went into the forest and in the direction of the tall mountain that a good amount of the smoke was spewing forth from.

When they had finally got into the base of the mountain and began their climb. The rate at which they were progressing had slowed down drastically, when Fluttershy was unable to fly due to the scare she had gotten from the Dragon’s roar that could be heard from high above. After getting across a small cliff that led to another ledge and coming to another section. They were informed by Twilight that this area was marked down on the map as an avalanche zone and that’s when things got a little dicey for them.

That was because not soon after, one had occurred and Rarity was nearly crushed by one of the larger boulders that came rolling down the side. But was saved at the last second by Rory, who had swung her axe from below and striking it. This caused it to be cut in half and the separate pieces to fall on either side of Rarity and continue down the mountain.

From there, it was another short walk until they were to finally get to the mouth of the cave where the smoke was coming out from. but during that time, Rarity began to talk with Rory now that they seem to have a moment of peace. “I am dreadfully sorry dear, but with all the commotion, I was neglectful in introducing myself. My name is Rarity. I am the proprietor of Carousel Boutique and I can't help but to admire your dress. Never have I seen such a design! Might I enquire as to where you came across such an ensemble?”

Rory gave a quick chuckle to the question, before replying. “I got this from my... Uh… Dear lover. This is a recreation of something that he saw quite some long time ago. My weapon was also made by him as well. Although I must confess that I have a habit of breaking these quite easily, so he's gotten quite adept at their creation thanks to the practice.”

Rarity was pretty much hanging off of every word as her eyes began to sparkle, while getting a closer look at the pattern and stitching. However, when Rory had gotten to the end, the white Unicorn could sense the hesitation at the beginning when she talked of her lover.

There was also this astonished expression, before Rarity replied in a disbelieving tone. “Pardon me my dear. But did you just say somewhere in there, that the one who made these is a stallion? I can quite understand making clothing, but to forge an axe... Is that not a dangerous profession?”

Rory gave another playful laugh as she picked up speed so that she was now in front of Rarity and walking backwards so that she was facing her. The axe-wielding mare then said, “Oh, you don't have to worry about my Mas-... My lover. He is extremely talented when it comes to crafting. I can proudly say that every outfit that I own is one that he himself has personally made for me.”

Rarity was clearly more excited at this point and began to release a barrage of questions on to Rory as to just who this stallion is. Along with trying to gleam any information incase she herself has ever heard of him. But no matter what happened, Rory was keeping the more important bits of information closely guarded. She would do this either from switching words around or sidestepping the question with one of her own that had anything to do with fashion.

Unfortunately for Rarity’s interrogation, the girl’s tactics were working extremely well. So well in fact, that she couldn't even get much at all by the time they had arrived and Twilight was beginning to go over the plan. At which point, Rory had walked away from the group and was sitting on top of a large rock that was at least four meters high after taking a single leap onto it without much trouble.

*Point of view: Brex Mith*

Brex had separated from Gilda after they had gotten back to ponyville, by giving a half-assed excuse about leaving an important item back at the campsite where they were just training and needed to go back before an animal got their paws onto it.

In reality, he had been getting regular updates from Rory and had caught up to them as they had gotten near the top of the mountain and watched as they got ready to go in for the first time with Twilight and Fluttershy. Thanks to their link, Rory had joined him and was now sitting near his legs, while watching from the top of the rock that they were both currently on.

Using their connection, the two began to converse with one another starting off with Brex. “I'm very proud of you Rory. You see, you don't always have to solve everything with physical violence. Otherwise, Rainbow wouldn't be here right now. There was this small part in the back of my head that said you might have chopped her head off the moment you met.”

“Well master.... I would be lying if I said everything was fine. Most of the trip up here was me imagining just what I could do to that Pegasus. One example is going over what I know about their anatomy and trying to come up with the number of how many times I can break her bones only a few inches apart. This also includes the total number that’s within her wings.”

Brex had released a mental sigh before going on. “Still, you did a great job in curbing your tendencies. But as for Twilight, she did two things today that really ticked me off...”

“Oh, is that so Master? Let me guess. Would it have to do with how she doesn't listen to Fluttershy when it comes to how scared she is of the Dragon and that whole comment about having an animal expert on hand, when dealing with a Dragon. When her own brother is one as well?”

“You know me so well. That would be a yes on both parts. I'm friends with Spike and she went and called him a wild animal with what she said before. Honestly, I can't really tell whether or not he took offense to it or was just oblivious. It's whenever she gets this inconsiderate that makes me want to bitch slap her to get some common sense. Anyhow, I was beginning to wonder when the Dragonshy episode was about the startup.”

“I'm going to hang back on this one. So far, this world is following the show close enough. So, our presence might not even be needed here and Fluttershy well gain some courage after her friends get hurt and talk the Dragon down after a little tussle.”

“And what if Fluttershy can't do that Master? Will I be able to have some fun with it?”

“Feel free to do whatever you want to the Dragon if it turns out to be hostile and the girls can't get it under control, but until then I suggest not interfering.” Rory then gave a barely noticeable slow nod as confirmation, as they both watched as Twilight being the only one to walk in through the mouth of the cave.”

*Point of view: Third person*
*Time: Two minutes later*

Brex had just given out a long yawn that he had to stifle with his mouth in order to not be heard by the others below. Rory gave a small smile upon hearing it right next to her, as she remained sitting on the rock and looking down at the group that was patiently waiting for the past few minutes.

There was then a large rumble that was accompanied by a Dragon's roar that caused the number of rocks along the side of the entrance to come falling down. Some of them happened to be the size of a person and had nearly hit Rainbow and Applejack.

But they managed to avoid it easily. This was followed with Twilight rushing out while screaming at the top of her lungs. But what really caught all of their attention, was how she was being followed by these strange bat-like creatures that had a set of arms and legs that were overall, just barely a third at most the size of a pony.

(Here is a picture of what is attacking Twilight.)

They were giving off a slight glow whenever they flapped their wings and it produced a noticeable burst of hot air. One had even shot a small fireball after opening its mouth for Twilight but miss buy a few inches as she outran where it was falling. There was another that took a deep breath and let loose a wave of fire that went out in a cone. Thankfully it came up short from hitting the swiftly running mare.

By now, she had finally got together with her friends and they took up their battle positions. However, Fluttershy was far too scared and was cowering behind one of the boulders at the very end of the area they were in, that was just large enough for a fight to occur.

Over with Rory. The girl had an awestruck expression as she carefully eyed the creatures flying about. Which were a grand total of six. For the briefest instants, her eyes went wide as she looked towards Brex and then back towards the fight as he quickly muttered. “Those are definitely not from Final Fantasy!”

Twilight launched her own fireball spell after pointing her staff in the direction of one of them, but it shrugged It off quite easily after the impact. It was just about to launch a fire attack of its own right back at Twilight in retaliation, but got an arrow shot into its skull from the back thanks to a well-timed shot from Pinkie.

Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to bring down one of those creatures, as it flailed about for but a moment, before writing itself with its wings and fired its attack back towards where the arrow had come from. Pinky had to jump out of the way and do a roll on the ground before getting herself back onto her left knee and taking another shot with their arrow. Which then finished off the target after getting it in the chest.

It had instantly gone limp and the wings were no longer flapping to keep it in the air. As soon as it hit the ground from the height it was at, the fiery creature had exploded upon contact and created a small crater. This was followed with it launching some molten magma a few feet away from itself. After seeing what the result was from killing them, Twilight frantically called out loud enough for all of her friends to hear. “OH, MY CELESTIA!!! They're made of lava! Girls! Don't let them touch you and don't be anywhere near them when they die!”

Having seen it for herself. Pinkie added to that by yelling in her usual cheery voice and bouncing around. “Yeah! They're like overfilled water balloons. But not without the water or the balloon. Instead, they have lava, very, very, hot lava! I don't know why anyone would want water balloons full of lava. That just sounds like a really bad idea.”

“Like, how would they even fill up the balloons without them popping?! Also, even if they could fill up the water balloons with lava, then it would be like playing hot potatoes! I don't think any would want to play a game that you can get really hurt like that!”

Oddly enough, with all the ramblings that she was doing. It had the effect of causing all of those present, to just stopped in place to look at her with strained faces. This also included the creatures that were now tilting their heads, while being stationary in place while in midair.

Seeing as all the girls had their own varying degrees of which they were used to the pink pony’s antics. It didn't take long before Rarity and Rainbow to snap free from their stupor and immediately went towards attacking the now stationary monsters.

As rainbow zoomed past and launched slash after slash to do damage to one or even both of their wings, the Pegasus had taken nearly half of them out. Some were already dead before hitting the ground. While others were finished thanks to the concussive force in which they landed on to the stone ground.

Rarity on the other hand, was casting a combination of non-elemental and lightning spells with the use of her weapon as a focal point, thanks to the gem that hooked onto the handle. As for the ones that were closer to the ground, the white mare used another skill that allowed her to close the gap to do a quick thrust and continue on with one of her melee skills which dispatch two, before jumping away in time to avoid the explosions.

The last one was clearly panicking, as it attempted to turn back in order to re-enter the cave. But was stopped when Applejack had snuck up on it and took it out with a clean sweep of her axe. Due to her close proximity of its death, she was not fast enough to avoid the impending explosion and was partly covered with lava that began to heat up the parts of her armor that had some on it. As a result, Applejack frantically went to work and threw off most of her protective gear to get away from being badly burnt.

The five of them began to cheer loudly at their victory, but this only lasted a few seconds before a bright light was being given off from the mouth of the cave. This was soon accompanied by the sound of roaring flames coming closer. As soon as they had all figured out what was coming, the entire group made a dive for either the sides or straight down onto the ground in order to evade the torrent of flames that erupted and pretty much covered the battle area that they were in for a few seconds.

Rarity was luckily able to avoid getting burned, but was now hurriedly dusting herself off after running out of the way. Rainbow had flown up and off to the side and was now patting herself due to a small bit of flame licking away near the tip of her tail. The rest look pretty beaten up with how they were completely covered in soot but appeared to have received no real damage.

When it came to Pinky, she had suddenly screamed and horror as she stood over the remains of what appeared to be a costume comprised of a birthday present, balloons and webbed flippers that were more than halfway burnt. Which was pretty weird because she didn't have them in view during their whole trip up the mountain in the first place. Brex, who was still in the shadows, clearly identified them as the get up that she was intending to use just like in the television show.

Pinkie did not have much time to mourn the loss of her party costume, due to a large red scale claw with four digits exiting the mouth of the cave on one side, only to be joined by another from the other side. This was then followed with a Dragon's head exiting that had a mouth big enough to swallow an entire person and just one bite. The sudden sight of the Dragon coming out, had made all of those present besides Rory and the one who was clearly hiding from view behind the rocks to pretty much fall over one another from panic.

The Dragon had let out another roar that was strong enough to knock the ponies into a nearby rock face. Clearly being stunned as they were pretty much tangled in each other's limbs. The group was now no longer in a position to put up much of a fight. Brex then gave Rory the command to intervene, in which she gladly had a devilish smirk on her face as a reaction.

Back with the group. Fluttershy had seen what it happened to them and was already up in the Dragon's face and giving it a stern talking-to. In the beginning, they all thought that she was really to get through to it. But as it turned out, the Dragon was not all that particularly weak against the yellow Pegasus and snorted a strong gust of hot air at her, which caused the mare to fall to the ground while coughing from the smoke.

The Dragon then got up onto its hind legs and exhibited signs that it was taking in a lung full of air in order to produce another one of its powerful breath attacks. Thanks to their current predicament, they were not going to be able to untangle themselves to get out of the way in time.

But Rory at jump high into the air and attack the Dragon’s face with her axe. This gave off a loud clang as the metal collided with the tough scales that was lining its head. But it did have the result of canceling its breath attack due to how hard Rory had struck with her large weapon.

She wasn't even halfway down from her fall, before she was struck with the backhand of its left arm in blind retaliation. This sent her flying at a much faster rate, but she had righted herself in the air with a well-timed flip and made a skidding stop along the ground as soon as her legs had touched down. There was some dirt rubbed onto her face that she had wiped off with her left hand, before gripping on to her axe with both once more to take on an aggressive stance to show that she was ready for another round.

By this point the others had freed themselves and were looking at Rory with dropped jaws that threatened to hit the ground. Even Rainbow seemed to have forgotten to flap her wings and dropped a foot or two before regaining her flying capabilities due to the shock of watching the girl taking a hit like that and not seeming phased.

Over with Brex who is watching all this unfurl from the shadow realm. he had this look of disbelief behind his own mask. But it was not because of what Rory had accomplished. No, it was for the simple fact that when he had brought up the information regarding the Dragon.

The whole screen had changed to something that he just couldn't believe. Instead of showing the usual text box or simply the health bar, along with the name of whoever he was checking. He instead got one that was designed to appear as though it had come from a Dungeons and Dragon's book.

(Here is a picture of the Dragon they are facing.)

He then quietly said to himself, while looking over the information displayed. “So, it says this is a large monster. I think he's a bit bigger than he’s supposed to be. It says that he’s a young Dragon. But he looks more like an adult dragon instead. I guess he's just big for his age.” After taking a quick glance at Rory, he continued with his musings. “She should be strong enough to be able to take this one on by herself. Although, I am worried with not getting an exact level on it.”

The fight then continued with Rory running towards the Dragon at full force and delivering swipe after swipe with her large axe. Although many of her blows barely grazed the scales and elicited a number of sparks to shower onto the field of battle. There were however a number that had gotten through its natural defenses and produced a myriad of gouges that it's dark blood would escape from.

The Red Dragon would thrash about wildly by using not only its fanged mouth to eat her whole, but its front power arms to try and swipe at Rory with claws that could cut into stone with ease. But it also used its tail to randomly sweep across the battlefield and even slammed down whenever Rory tried to get behind to avoid most of its razor-sharp appendages.

As this was going on, Twilight and her friends could do nothing but watch from what they believed was a safe distance. Among them was Fluttershy, who was clearly about to have a heart attack. What did surprise the others, was how Rainbow was holding onto Fluttershy and shaking like a leaf herself after every roar that escaped the dragon. The Pegasus had even made this scared sheep sound before falling over after a particularly loud one.

Whenever Rory seemed to have taken any damage at all, it would spontaneously begin to regenerate to leave not even a scar in its place even while in the midst of battle. Her movements were extremely hard to follow with the naked eye with how she was jumping from one rock spire to the next, that was being created due to the Dragon slamming into the ground and sending debris or large pieces of rock to come shooting out around where it's tail or claws had struck.

At one point, Rory had used one of its tail attacks to jump on to the appendage and run up along until she was pretty much on its back. She was just about to take a good swing at the base of the wings to cut them off, when the Dragon had suddenly started to roll on the ground. Which ended up throwing Rory off of its back and against the wall of the mountain as a result.

When that had happened. Brex could plainly here Rory giving a pained scream from being thrown off in such a way, that it made him take a single step forward before stopping in his tracks. From behind his mask, Brex had this look of fury that was slowly beginning to creep onto his face after hearing his girlfriend suffering such an injury, that could have killed any other. After letting out a grunt of annoyance, he closed his hands into fists and this created a few bones popping, thanks to the pressure he was creating due to his building anger.

The Dragon then unfurled its wings and took to the sky after giving a strong flap that pretty much knocked over all of the girls. Rory, who had gotten back up, ended up needing to stab the bottom of her axe handle into the ground in order to keep herself in place until the Dragon was fully airborne.

From there, the battle went on as the Dragon made numerous passes and launching a strong breath of fire that carved a solid line into the ground. There were even some rocks that got slung around because of this that had some glowing red parts to show that it was nearly turned into lava due to the extreme heat that was produced by the Dragon's breath.

Unlike before, Rory wasn't having much luck and doing any more damage to the Dragon, with the way it was staying in the air and she had no way of getting to it. Brex upon realizing the situation, had sent a message through their connection for just a moment, before the girl had a small smirk on her lips.

Just after the Dragon had done another pass. Rory spoke up loudly as she yelled to the Dragon after situating herself so that she was standing with her back towards the opening of the cave. “You're pretty good for a Copper Dragon!”

Saying such a thing, had obviously gotten a strong response from said Dragon. It had stopped in mid dive with the use of its strong wings and roared in a voice that was comparable to that of what the Royals would use. Most of the girls even had to cover their ears due to the volume. As for Brex, he was containing his mirth, while lightly giggling behind his mask after hearing the insult.

“You dare to insult me in such a fashion young welp! For I am a Red Dragon! NOT A COPPER DRAGON!! Such an insult cannot be allowed to pass! I shall feast from your body. All will know that my wrath is eternal! I will search out every town, every village within my domain and raise it to the ground with my flames! You shall be an example for what is to come for them all! I shall kill all ponies this day and sleep on a bed of their bones!”

From within the shadow Realm, all Brex did was to stand there and lifting both of his hands and moving them to like a set of sock puppet’s, along with bobbing left to right in a mocking gesture and timed it to be in line with the Dragon's own words. Between him and Rory, they had this quick conversation with one another as the Dragon went on with it’s over the top monologue

“Master, how did you know that was going to make it do that?”

“Oh, that's really easy! He's a Red Dragon, so they're extremely prideful and arrogant. They also have the shortest fuse that any living creature could have. Honestly, the best way to tick off a red Dragon like that, is to either insult him or take his items from right in front of his face.”

“Okay I understand that. But would you like to explain why you had me call him a copper Dragon?”

“That's simple Rory. The Red Dragon is a part of the Chromatic tribe of Dragon's in the D and D world. They want nothing more than to see the destruction of all and have themselves at the top of the food chain if you were to simplify it. Now, a Copper Dragon is from the Metallic tribe and they're pretty much the polar opposite from the Chromatics.”

“When it comes to the Copper Dragons, they're really hard to distinguish at a glance between it and a Red Dragon if you don't know what you're looking for and you could imagine how much this upsets a Red Dragon to be compared to them.”

Their little conversation had come to an abrupt end, when the Dragon was finished talking and was now making a straight on dive for Rory. Just before it had gotten to her, the Dragon had opened its mouth to try and swallow her whole. Seeing this, she jumped up and hooked her axe so that she would be thrown over its head and began to run along it's spine until she had gone across the length of its body and landed on to the ground outside. At the same time, she surprisingly looking ever so graceful while doing so.

However, when she was doing this, the Dragon ended up crashing into his cave as its hole form disappeared into the mouth of the opening. Because of that, there was a huge crash that shook the entire mountain and nearly caused a few of the ponies to stumble as a result.

Brex, who is still up on the rock, had to adjust his stance to prevent from slipping off. A huge dust cloud came pouring out of the cave not even a second later and the ground started to send cracks that were heading straight for where Rory was standing at an astounding rate.

This was then followed with it giving way and falling into an empty section of the mountain that was located directly below. Clearly not expecting such an outcome, Rory was caught up in the situation and had started to plummet into the darkness.

The girls had all saw this happening and had let out a collective gasp as most of them ran towards the edge to try and peek down to see if she was okay. Unfortunately for them, the cave below was so deep that they were unable to even tell when it ended. Even the large Dragon couldn't even be seen from where they stood.

In response to this, Brex had jumped down from his vantage point and ran past the girls before leaping into the darkness below without being noticed. As Brex was falling, he began to take note at just how long of a drop this was and counted the seconds. By the time his senses had alerted him that the ground was coming up fast and only had a second or two to brace himself. The Roegadyn had quickly gone over in his head about what he knew about falling speed.

“Okay let's see! Factoring in air resistance, the average fall speed for a human upon achieving terminal velocity. Which is one hundred and eighteen miles per hour! Now taking into account how long I've been traveling! Then I must be... What the fuck! Did we really go through the whole mountain and are now underground?! I'd have to guess we're nearly two hundred and eighty meters down from the base of the mountain!”

Right as he had collided with the ground, there was a large boom that came from his feet making an impact. This was then proceeded with it echoing off of the walls that indicated that they were inside of an underground chasm. Brex had to take a quick knee to recover from the sudden stop and could feel his body screaming in pain from every nerve. Just like in the game, fall damage couldn’t kill a player that was at full health. Instead, it would bring them to as low as one percent. In this case, he had the blessing from Daddy, so he didn’t take so much.

Unfortunately, thanks to the rough terrain, it was hard for Brex to be able to get a fix on everything. This was only further being complicated with how dark it was that he could not even see his own nose. It had taken several long moments until he could stand on his two legs and take in his surroundings.

After concentrating on his senses, the Roegadyn was able to use his situational awareness to give him a mental picture of the environment to a certain distance away from his body. He had even called out to Rory with their mental connection, but got nothing back other than silence.

This was the first time ever this had happened with how Rory never missed an opportunity to talk to him. But still, he wasn't too worried about her being dead, thanks to being able to feel out the connection that was still established. Which meant that she was most likely unconscious.

A few seconds later, the sound of rumbling rocks could be heard after there was a roar coming from none other than the Dragon itself, from within the darkness. A number of boulders must have been flung with the way that they were falling from above Brex, who only had a split second thanks to his limited detection range upon picking up their approach to get out of the way.

The Dragon then spoke in a very angry tone of voice that said retribution was an order. “I will take much joy in ending your life for this indignity! Show yourself!” The cave suddenly had a bright orange and red flame erupting from above to indicate that the Dragon was standing on its hind legs with its mouth blazing as it began to build.

After letting out another Roar, it had shot its flames until it had collided with the far wall, which was easily around ninety meters away and gave off a dim light thanks to the superheated rocks that were now formed from the Dragons attack.

It then yelled out as its form that was partially illuminated and thrashed about with both its wings and tail. Thereby sending the debris that came down along with them to shoot in random directions and come crashing into others. Some of which were nearly as big as a military tank as they came down.

As the Dragon was doing all of this. Brex was running around in search of Rory, as well as dodging the many debris. At one point, he had even gone and casted the night vision spell on himself. But even that had a limit to the distance that he could see and even after close to a minute of running around, he did not find Rory anywhere.

There was yet another fiery blast that had gone towards the other end of the cavern. Apparently, the Dragon was attempting to either hit Rory by chance or to give him some more light in which to continue his hate-filled search. Brex was just about to continue with searching where the Dragon currently had its back towards, but notice the way that it suddenly got quiet after a few seconds after making that last fire breath.

The Dragon was currently looking in some far-off direction and had not made any more aggressive movements for but a moment, before it began to walk on all fours in a predator, stacking it pray fashion. It was even giving off these small growls that echoed in an ominous way as its tail dragged on the ground.

The Dragon had stopped after taking a few long strides, this thanks to its large bodies size. It then craned its neck down so that it was nearing the cave floor and began to produce a light from its mouth that was clearly starting to build up for a far more powerful flame. It also gave off a menacing chuckle while doing so, that sent a chill the run-up the Roegadyn's spine.

Right there on the cave floor and laying on her right side. Turned out to be Rory and her clothing was pretty beat up with half of her skirt being torn off and her right shoulder being completely exposed. No doubt she had just recovered thanks to her auto healing, otherwise there might have been a large wound right there. Her weapon was halfway stuck into the ground by its bladed end, being only five meters or so away.

Brex used a mental connection once more and screamed in his mind as loud as he could to get her to reply. “Rory! You need to get up now, he found you!” However, there was no response from either her body making a move or the connection.

He then attempted once more. “Rory! No more playing around!” Again, this got nothing, so he tried once more, but with a slightly different tactic. “Rory, this is your Master speaking! I swear, if you do not get up right now, then I will not let you have sex with me for a whole month and I'll make sure you watch me doing it with our maids!!”

At this point, the Dragon had already reached down with its right claw and picked up Rory’s body before tossing her into the air so that she would fall into his open mouth. Almost as though someone had flipped the light switch, Rory had reacted to what Brex had said and immediately woken up with a startled expression. Which was right in time for her to grasp the situation and positioned herself with a well-timed twist of her body, so that her legs were pressing between the gaps of the Dragon's teeth on its lower jaw.

She had also brought up her left arm and had it bent at the elbow so that two sets of the teeth would collide with it and her other arm was underneath to brace it for support near the wrist. The Dragon was clearly trying to bite down on her but due to her strong unnatural strength, the girl was able to wedge his mouth open as its head thrashed about to dislodge her. Even with the heavy grunts that was escaping her lips, there was also this background noise of creaking that could be heard.

She then screamed as loudly as she could, along with beginning to give off this nearly imperceivable pulse of energy that went along with her voice for just one single word. “RELEASE!” The Dragon upon hearing that, had its eyes going wide as the slitted golden pupils close until they were nothing but tiny lines. from there, the Dragon eased up on its pressure just enough for Rory to push yourself out from between the teeth and began to fall until she landed on the ground with a light thud.

But while she was still in mid-air, she was frantically yelling through the mental link in a panic tone, that just said that she was about to lose her mind. “Master! Y-You wouldn't do that to me. Would you??!!! I only took a short nap! Please, oh please don't be so mean!”

Back with the Dragon, the eyes return to normal as it quickly slammed its jaw closed. Only to find that his prey was no longer within his mouth. As it went to look for Rory, the girl had ample time to get ahold of her axe and had jumped up high to land one of the taller pieces of debris in order to launch herself at the Dragon's head once more as it was facing away. The axe itself, was aimed directly in a spot on the back of the skull where it met the neck in order to get past at a weak point that she had noticed during their battle earlier outside.

Unfortunately for Rory, for a soon as she had gotten close enough that she can literally taste the Dragon blood on her lips. It had spun its head around so that the axe’s blade had ended up striking the hard section of its skull. This in turn, along with the amount of strength that Rory had put into the strike, was way more than enough to cause the weapon to shatter and rain down not only sparks.

But the many pieces that were scattered about and reflecting the light of the flames that were still lit within the cave. The last thing that Rory said before the Dragon swiped her out of the air with the use of its left claw was, “Oooh Fuuuuuuuuuck!”

Rory not only slammed into one of the rocks during her trip given by the Dragon. She had also shattered it and had gone through another, then another before coming to a halt after colliding with the fourth, only to slide and crumple down onto the rocky floor.

She had multiple cuts that were bleeding profusely and quite a bit of her clothing had been ripped off. This meaning she had hardly anything left of her old outfit, which left her with red lace panties and bra that was showing that the left strap for the shoulder had snapped off and was close to falling lower to show off her breast.

After Rolling onto her back and breathing heavily. Rory was barely able to keep her eyes open while staring straight up and using the connection to talk to Brex in a tired tone. “My… apologies Master. I believe I’ve finally hit my limit. Just promise me you'll fuck him up good...”

The Dragon had gotten down onto all fours and flared its wings. It then opened its mouth once again to show that it was building up its flames once more. However, unlike the rest, it was taking its time and even its body was starting to give off a faint glow to show that the heat within was building to a much higher degree than any of the previous fire attacks that had been revealed.

When the attack was released. It had outstretched its neck fully and the jaw was now opened wide. Instead of either a fireball or it shooting a jet of flame straight ahead of itself. The entire area in front of it, in a cone had been engulfed in flames that was so powerful that they not only scorched the Earth, but had been blasted all around till it covered every foot of the chasm that they are within and essentially turning it into a living representation of hell itself.

Nearly one side of their fighting area was now turning into puddles of molten rock and creating an out-cove in the process. The rocks melted down quickly and the far wall was now glowing orange and red. From there, it slowly ran down and joined the pooling mass of molten rock that was quickly growing.

Back on the surface and at the very top of the mountain, the girls had been listening to the fight down below and the numerous roars and crashing noises that echoed through the deep hole. But just then, they all had to jump away to take a safe position after noticing a bright orange light coming from the bottom and that is was quickly approaching. They had just barely jumped far enough to escape a raging geyser of fire that nearly singed the tips of their tails after turning to run.

Fluttershy was the furthest away due to how scared she was. It was because of this that she didn't feel the full force from the flames. Although it was enough to cause her to stumble and land on her butt. This had the result of jostling the Grimoire that she had securely fastened to a holder on her right hip. The book then fell onto its spine and opened to one of the many random pages that were written with him.

When that have happened, there was a small flash of light to indicate the summoning of a carbuncle. This being the unique green one that she had previously summon during the fight with the bugs and it immediately ran for the whole and jump within right as the flame ended.

Fluttershy was the only one to notice this going on as the rest of her friends were still in the middle of recovering and getting the dust out of their eyes after quickly getting away from the hole just moments before.

She was just about to get up to give chase, but ended up stumbling until she was now sitting back down with her knee’s underneath and a somewhat blank expression for about a moment as her eyes shifted between their normal color to that od green. Over with the green carbuncle that had dived into the hole. It was showing no worries as it adjusted its body to traverse the drop so that it did not collide with anything that was poking out along the walls down.

Even the thick black smoke that was following through the whole mountain as though it was some oversized chimney, had little to no effect on the creature as it shined a green glow that produced a strong wind barrier to protect it as the smoke got more heavier along with the increase in temperature.

It didn't take much time for it to enter the underground cavern and float down onto one of the taller rock formations that was the farthest away from the Dragon, as it was clearly seen through the flames that pretty much covered everything within sight. But just beyond where the Dragon was facing. Just happened to be a bright green and yellow light that stood out from everything else and this called the summons over. It then made its way closer in order to get a better view of the situation.

After a few seconds of jumping from one rock to the next, while avoiding the small rivers of lava. It had finally made it to a position to the far left of the Dragon and got a good look of a patch of ground that was in the shape of a perfect circle and had not been touched at all by the river of lava that was now surrounding it.

As the Carbuncles eyes reflected a shade of blue for a moment before returning to their usual black. It showed a reflection of two within a strange barrier made up of green energy that spanned the entire area that was untouched by anything.

The smallest was no doubt Rory, but the second was that of Brex while wearing his usual attire. Held within his left hand was a book similar to a Grimoire. Right next to him, was another small creature floating nearby that had a pair of butterfly wings and took on the shape of a small person that was covered in purple and yellow lines.

Both of which, also had another personal barrier that could be seen with a four-pointed diamond design that could be shown on the surface in the general direction of the Dragon. After a few seconds had passed, the diamond patterns faded to only leave a vague glow to show that a shield was still up.

It took a few seconds for the barrier to finally drop and allowed a better view of those within it. The reflection in the Carbuncle's eyes showed how he had turned around and pointed his right hand straight at Rory and she was enveloped in a glow that was similar to that of the magic that protected them.

A few seconds had passed and Rory could be seen getting back up and onto her legs and making the motion of dusting herself off and examining the current state of her clothing and giving an angry gesture of stomping the ground.

This was immediately preceded with an outfit appearing within his arms that was similar in design to what she was wearing before it had gotten destroyed. Some words were apparently exchanged between them both that could not be heard from where the Carbuncle was and watched as Rory soon after jumped to an unknown location away from Brex by using the still visible rocks that were above the lava as stepping stones. There were still the signs of the protection still being in effect as it kept her from being harmed by the heat that was radiating from the lava’s surface.

Going back over to the Roegadyn. He slowly turned towards the Dragon after sending Rory away to get redressed. That was when he started to talk to himself. “I'm all well and good when it comes to Rory being in a fight... And yes, she tends to get a little bloody at times... However, she always comes out on top... But you… You on another hand, ooh you just had to go and cross the line now, didn't you? If I hadn’t stepped in, then there would have been nothing left of her just now.”

His tone began to turn a little darker as he went on. “You could have killed her for good just now... I thought I was fine with her going into this fight, but I realized now that even that has a limit. I can clearly see that you are stronger than Nightmare Moon... Now having Rory fight you on her own was a mistake on my part and I will own up to it later. But as for you... You really hurt Rory today. There's a part of me that just wants to kill you here and now and as quickly as possible.”

That was when his mannerisms began to turn into something that was a little more manic, as he continued to speak. There was even this chilling laugh that escaped his lips. “Hahaha… But lucky you! You're most likely the strongest thing I've had to come across here in Equestria! Bravo, bravo! Where else am I going to find a perfect opportunity to conduct this little test... Oh I so very much hope that you don't die quickly!

“HAAHAAAAA-HAHAAAA-HAAAA! Anyone or anything that tries to take Rory away from me better have their affairs in order! Because the light of day will never be seen again by them!” If it wasn't for the mask covering his face, then it would be very easy for any who saw him to see a toothy smile that stretched from ear to ear as he gazed at the Dragon with pure killing intent. All the while, he was slightly giggling with anticipation for what was about to happen.