Castlevania: Magic of Friendship
Chapter 14(real): Castlemania's mistress' second fall
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Year: 1798
Scootaloo and Twilight stepped out onto the giant staircase leading to the top, Twilight looked down and saw her friends waiting at the exit of the castle. Scootaloo beckoned her up the staircase and Twilight followed her up.
Sweetie Belle took a sip from her glass as Scootaloo and Twilight entered the throne room, "So you both have arrived, wonderful. After all the pain Apple Bloom went through... it still did nothing. You two are assholes you know? I had hoped that she could have proven able to flip this mistake of a situation... but she failed. Fabricator changed sides, Estella was worthless, even the demons made for this castle from Equestrian history weren't good enough. You two have proven how much of a pain in the ass you are. And now? You both are here to defeat me, Vampire Lady Sweetie Belle. Shame, I thought you'd both listen to reason, guess that was too much."
"Reason?! What makes you a voice of reason?! If anything Scootaloo is more of a voice of reason than you! Scootaloo's a filly, a reckless one at that, and yet she didn't become a monster like you who desires to kill the world!" Twilight spoke with a vigorousity that Scootaloo, nigh, anypony or anyone, hadn't seen before. She put emphasis on words that normally she wouldn't have emphasized and yet... Scootaloo knew she meant every word.
"Is that so? What's saying she won't? She and Alucard are counterparts now. Both are half vampire so given the right... motivation... she could become just as bad, if not worse than me."
"You fail to see her point. Yes, if I was given the right motive I could be as bad as you, but I also know better than to let the darkness control me. Sweetie Belle, you fell into the darkness out of desire, I'd fall into darkness out of neccessity, we are not the same. I use the darkness as a tool for good, you use it as a force for evil, we will never be the same."
"Then I guess I have nothing more to say to you. Have at you!" She said as she threw her wine glass to the floor and teleported.
That caused the fight to start properly. Scootaloo grabbed Fatal Wind as Twilight started preparing a fire ball spell. When Sweetie laughed and appeared again Scootaloo attacked her head while Twilight fired the fire ball spell that Sweetie Belle reflected back.
"What the hay? She can use your Reflect spell?" Twilight said quizzingly as Scootaloo nodded.
"Duh, she's a unicorn, a reflect spell should be simple for her, I wasn't the first to make one, you know," Scootaloo Responded as she dodged being slashed by Sweetie's magic claw.
Twilight now felt stupid for not realizing how stupid that question was. Twilight threw a flask of holy water down as the sparks spread out making her holy water good at area control. Only disadvantage was that the flask had to touch the ground to spread the sparks.
Sweetie laughed again as she appeared behind Twilight and cast three hellfires from behind her in a pattern the reminded Scootaloo of Dracula's hellfire. Twilight did get burned by it, although it wasn't too damaging for her due to her high MND stat.
In fact, the only really damaging attack for Twilight was the magic slash since Twilight's DEF was low. Turns out cloaks aren't the best defensively, who the hell knew.
Sweetie Belle even used some new tricks, when she turned into the bats she sometimes dashed once, just forwards, or twice, forwards and the backwards. She sometimes sang a song which, while doing nothing to Scootaloo, put Twilight right to sleep, probably because the book worm stayed awake all night far more often than was healthy. Scootaloo kept fighting, using a mix of magic and Fatal Wind.
Sweetie Belle wasn't even showing signs of wear and tear as if she was just regenerating... regenerating... Scootaloo thought... as she noticed something, she attacked Sweetie Belle in the head and she didn't even react nor focus on Scootaloo. A single dash attack proved her right... "It was a god damn fake, she tricked us," Scootaloo shook Twilight awake.
"Wha huh? Did we defeat Sweetie Belle?"
"No, we were fighting a fake. Chances are I know where the real one is," Scootaloo teleported Twilight to a location invertor before entering... The invertation.
Area: Harmony Garden
Year: 1798
Twilight and Scootaloo looked around as the lack of monsters in the Harmony Gardens was... kinda unsettling, not gonna lie.
The group moved to see all pathways were now open, "Let's pay a visit to the rest of our inverted friends," Scootaloo said as she entered the library, Twilight nodding and following afterwards.
Area: Lost Library
Year: 1798
In the Lost Library there were a massive amount of new enemies with some familiar faces like Final Guards. Twilight went towards where Estella Moon should be located while Scootaloo went towards the Inverted Applejack.
Twilight going solo wasn't the best idea but she eventually found Estella's room was blocked by a boss door... meaning Estella Moon's a boss in the invertation. Twilight felt strong enough to deal with it.
Upon entering the boss room, the inverted Estella Moon was busy making a brew, "Oh? A mortal has entered my room while I was in the middle of my brew? Perfect! I'm just missing a heart to perfect it. A pony heart." Estella grabbed a potion and threw it towards Twilight as it broke on the ground and left fire on the ground.
"An alchemical brew... interesting..." Twilight said to herself as she coughed out a page that actually reminded her that alchemical brews are nothing to be cocky about. She knew... just knew... that fire brews weren't the end of the picture.
Twilight opened her wings and launched many mini spheres at the Inverted Estella Moon. While Estella took many of the hits, she didn't even seem to flinch as she threw a brew that released a small amount of poison gas.
Twilight used the Tome of Shadows to attack Estella and while it didn't do amazing damage, it was fast and spammable so... it was good enough for now.
Estella eventually got desperate after being damaged enough and drank a brew which made her much stronger. It didn't help. Twilight grabbed and drank the HP up and moved on.
Twilight exited the boss room as Scootaloo got back, "Turns out, Orange Fool, which is the inverted Applejack, had the last ingredient we needed. I'm guessing you fought an easy boss?" she said as Twilight nodded. Scootaloo went to find a location invertor for the library to give the last ingredients to Estella Moon(The normal one).
It took Scootaloo a couple moments but she returned with a witch's hat that she gave to Twilight, "Estella gave me that for helping her, figured you'd get more use from it than I would," Scootaloo explained as they went to the next unexplored area of the inverted castle.
Area: Falling Graveyard
Year: 1798
When Scootaloo and Twilight saw the upside down graves on what ceiling of the inverted castle, they didn't bother asking questions. They went through the short area and reached the top where they just moved on to the Castle Drop(Inverted Castle Keep).
Area: Castle Drop
Year:1798
Scootaloo went in and found the inverted Rainbow Dash(Blue Fast) just roaming the halls with a stern look on her face. Twilight and Scootaloo just went to where the final battle was to happen. The inverted throne room.
The entry was more difficult... if they didn't have the ability to teleport that is.
Within the Throne Room, Sweetie Belle awaited, and now, it was time to finish what was started in Castlevania.
Sweetie Belle started the fight with a double bat dash and teleported to use Magic Claw on Twilight. Scootaloo used the brief moments to attack Sweetie Belle who did react to being attacked this time. She sang a lullaby and put Twilight to sleep but wasn't expecting Scootaloo to use Rushing Darkness which dealt hefty damage.
Sweetie Belle literally didn't see most of this fight coming but then, suddenly, she healed up all of the damage she'd taken. "There's... you gotta be kidding me... you have a healing spell?" Scootaloo said in annoyence.
"I wanted to avoid using my second form too early because that was mine and Dracula's downfall last time, we hadn't prepared for loss so we didn't have a way to postpone using our second forms. This time I do. You will lose tonight Scootaloo. Either by joining me or by death, you'll lose the battle." Sweetie Belle started attacking again, this time with a new form of vigor and Twilight awoke just in time to see it... Twilight immediately used a light orb to attack and the attack hit and stunned Sweetie Belle.
"Ha! Got you with my light magic!" Twilight said just proving to anger Sweetie Belle, "Insolent Alicorn! You want to fight, I'll show you a god forsaken fight!" The vampire filly said as she gathered her magic to use Magic Claw... only to be attacked by Scootaloo.
"First rule of combat: never take your eyes off the biggest threat," Scootaloo commented. Sweetie Belle couldn't believe that she thought Twilight had actually gotten cocky and let her eyes moves from Scootaloo so she could attack... Sweetie Belle chuckled.
"Hehehehe... you insolent fools think you've won? No no no no.. you see... the battle has only just begun.
YOU WILL SEE WHAT YOUR INSOLENCE HAST BRED IN YOUR FATES!" She announced as she transformed into her giant Alicorn Dragon Demon form thing. Her fire and soul based attacks had definitely grown stronger as Scootaloo and Twilight had a hard time dodging them. Scootaloo turned into a bat and did a Wing Smash to attempt to be victorious. It did next to nothing.
"Ugh damn, she is not making this easy. Why doesn't she just die?" Scootaloo commented after being untransformed. She also get slashed after that comment by Sweetie Belle's claw.
Twilight fired a beam of light at Sweetie Belle... it did next to nothing. Scootaloo embued her weapon with light, next to nothing. They did a Dual Crush of holy water. Next to nothing. It was as if Sweetie Belle didn't want to die... well, she doesn't but it's like she has no honor in lettung herself lose in a quick manner. Scootaloo jumped over flamethrower like flames and attacked again.
After the attack, Sweetie's eyes went from deep red to deep green and Twilight took the chance to see... the beam of light fired actually hit and damaged her for a huge chunk! Scootaloo followed along and realized... "Oh god damn it, it's a survival boss so we wait for the opening..." Scootaloo said aloud having heard of such a thing through Alucard mentioning them at the party "If you run into the case where most of your attacks do next to nothing, wait for something to change then attack, it could be a survival boss."
After realizing that, the fight was really easy. Just dodge how hard- and Twilight's been struck again.
... maybe Scootaloo needs to work a bit on her estimating skills.
Everything Sweetie gave the opening, Scootaloo and Twilight rushed to deal as much damage as possible and after 5 DAMN CYCLES, Sweetie Belle fell as the castle started to crumble.
Area: Ponyville
Year: 1798
Scootaloo teleported herself and Twilight out of the castle and back to Ponyville... she'd done it again. "Did we... did we actually do that?" Twilight asked as the other hybridized mane 6 members came close to them. Twilight went out of her way to undo the hybridization... except Rainbow who had objections, "Woah, uh, Twi, chill, I'm... I'm fine like this. I... I think being this... thing... ain't bad. I... hope you don't mind keeping me this way," she spoke in nothing but... calm acceptence. Rainbow, normally bashful and fast, spoke slowly and calmly, "Plus, I'm pretty sure I was going to die with how often I crash into things anyways, and yes I'm aware of what I'll lose but... it doesn't really matter because in the end, I'll be there when you or Scoots needs it," Dash added as Twilight nodded understandingly.
Scootaloo smiled as she flew off... she'll need to finish school before her next adventure in Europe.
Author's Note
Bosses Beaten: Inverted Estella, Sweetie Belle
Arc 2 complete!
So... you all enjoyed this arc finale did you, did you?! Well, for those who saw the fake chapter 14 with Nobody Orange Wonder and Heartless Black Heart, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN STORY IN KINGDOM HEARTS! Find it here. And expect many things to make little sense, especially considering Roxas is there to try and calm the nightmares. Shame the Heartless won't lay down and die while the group deals with the other major threat. Now while that story isn't entirely canon(Meaning you do not have to read it unless you want KH stuff) to this one aside from staring the Invertation version of Scootaloo, I wanted to share it. Now... for the big question...
When it comes to official Castlevania plotlines, should I change how they work so I don't have to read plot summaries or watch long plays or do you want the official plot changes to only happen because of the existence of Scoots? The only reason I ask is because the next game in the timeline in this story is OoC which I've never even made it halfway in so most of it's plot is completely unknown to me. (Stupid crab boss sucks ass.)
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