Canterlot Academy Trials

Everyone looked in Grimrose’s direction and watched as the pegasus’ body morphed and changed from her default pony form into a shape that looked a bit more like her mother’s albeit a tad shorter.

She had now tapped into her krampus blood that she had inherited from her mother. Now standing at five feet, nine inches tall, her pegasus wings had turned black to match her new fur color. There were a pair of upward-facing horns on her head, and her face was a fully-exposed skull akin to the imagery found in the Book of Baphomet.

“Well now…this is interesting,” Bonetail commented as he looked at the demonic, winged goat woman, “I didn’t even think your kind still existed. This might be a worthy matchup after all…”

“Rrrgh…” Rose growled and hissed with a voice that didn’t even sound like it was of this world. “Let them go! People like you who abuse your power have no place in this world!”

“Big talk for someone with demon blood in their veins,” Bonetail threw her words back at her, and snapped his fingers.

All of the kobolds in the room had turned hostile and were prepared to attack. The lich dragon truly did have the entire population under his thumb.

“Control their leaders, control their life,” he faux-yawned and took a seat on a nearby stool. “Tear them limb from limb, everyone.”

“Youuuuu!” Grimrose was prepared to charge at the dragon, but she was short-stopped by Escala who had come between her and him. The crocodilian kobold had a short sword in her claw at the read.

“...you wanna get to him, you’ll have to go through--”

But before that could go any further…

CHING!

“I don’t think so, ya whippersnapper,” Geki called out as she approached them all. Her cane had now turned into an energy weapon with two blades jutting out from the top and bottom to make a double-sided spear. “You’re dealin’ with me!”

Abra had joined her moments later, cracking his knuckles as he glanced at the mind-controlled kobolds. “I’ve been waiting for a chance to do this and now I get to do so without hesitation or remorse.”

“Hmph…” Escala turned her attention to the elderly lizard and scoffed. “Fine then. This won’t take me much time at all.”

“Outta my way!” Grimrose flew around them and tackled Bonetail through to the other side of the building where Nebula would join her.

“Hey wait--shit!” Nebula looked at Mei and Blue, “Operating positions, now!”

Blue had already generated his flame lance. “Don’t gotta tell me twice!”

“Way ahead of you!” Mei yelled out in her nirik form.

As soon as Bonetail was tackled, the kobolds had begun to swarm everyone in the building. They charged everyone and it was an all-out brawl amidst what was previously an extravagant party.

Blue had stabbed and slashed a few kobolds, burning them since he knew that their lives were already forfeit due to being under Bonetail’s control. One of them tried to jump him from behind and slit his throat with a knife, but he was able to flip them over his head and spin them around, throwing them into some other kobolds to bowl them over.

Mei had stomped her hooves and generated a firewall in front of herself. When they got too close, she forced the multi-colored flames to fan out all around herself to burn them all. Once of them managed to overcome this though and tackled her to the floor where she raised her hoof and kicked them in the face hard enough to knock teeth loose as she rose up and evaded the wild punches of another.

“Grrrgh!” the nirik mare hissed as she avoided a punch and retaliated with a flaming uppercut that burned the air around the kobold’s body. “These fuckers mean business!”

“No shit!” Blue yelled back as he leapt over Mei’s body to dropkick another insane lizardman that had almost ambushed her, “They’re all drones powered by some lich bastard’s sick fantasies!”

Nearby, Abraxas had been engaging several kobolds in battle at once with aggressive kickboxing techniques that required only one or two strikes at most to subdue them.

“You’re pissing me off!” he screamed as he punched one of them in the gut, and carried them on his fist as he ran them into a group of other kobolds that would all be driven into the nearest wall with their skulls cracked.

Lastly, Escala and Dengeki had been locked in a fierce battle. As their weapons clashed, the beefier lady kobold would scoff.

“Hmph…you’re much more spry than I would’ve expected from a geriatric that likely uses dentures!”

“With all the nasty malarkey you’re doing, your vagina won’t even last once you reach my age--assuming you even make it there!”

“...!” Such a response visibly annoyed Escala, causing her eyes to widen as she broke the clash and attempted to punch Geki dead in the face…

Only for the elderly kobold to not only avoid it to break through her attack, but leap onto Escala’s head, lock her feet around her neck, and twist hard to the right, causing the larger kobold to topple to the floor where she’d keep her neck in a fierce leglock.

“...I may look like I’ve got one foot in the grave, little missy…but you? You’re about to be the grave.”