Not a minute Later Stella shoot forward to keep her barrage, or would have had if Crown didn't grab her hand keeping her in place. Before she could protest however, she quickly noticed she was about to step on one of the dozens of barely visible spikes on the ground, similar to small pikes that would have pierced her feet to the bone, no doubt. making her gasp.

"The same trick, rarely works twice on him, Stella. If you are going to attack, never forget to see your surroundings" Crown said

"Sure, whatever! But I fail to see when he-" Stella tried to quesition

"When you crashed into his shield. Your back was exposed so as you dodged backwards he hide some of those below the cloud debris caused by his attacks" he simply said

Stella gulped. She barely noticed those. Perhaps because in her retreat she mostly was "on air" and not touching land.

"Fuck" she realized what happened. As each spike was dodged by her and hit the ground. Fragments of the spikes reformed and hit under the debri in forms of piercing spikes. So when she came running mindlessly at him she would be locked in place, feet pierced and locked in plave for a moment..and then....well...

"Splurt" Fortress spat blood on the ground. "I thought this was supposed to be among us, "brother"

"Well, no matter. 1 enemy, 2, makes no difference..!". He then took one shard of the magically created cement spikes, molding it to a sharp blade likena scalpel but bigger and cut the carbonized part of his Abomen out, first the one caused by Crown and the other of Stella. He cut those like you would take out the crust of a bread, all the while grunting in pain as blood splurted on the icy dust.

Making hid Enemies pause for a moment.

No sooner he finished his butchery however , almost instantaneusly new tissiue covered the wound and just like it never happened his abdomen was a new.

Stella: "Huh?!, Crown what the!?-"

Crown: " I dont know!, Never before had I ever seen Fortress use regenerative magic, let alone to this unhinged decree!, you saw him too in the past right?!, being tended by Serene, so he clearly could not do this before right?!"

Stella: "Well-" but her debating was cut short since both of them retreated backward before what looked like a giant claws made of cement flatenned them to the ground, that tried to flatten them again, and again causing intentionally big clouds of dust and icy blockinh partially their vision to his actions.

"ENOUGH TALKING!" Screamed Fortress "well then, Clearly you are going to be nuissances even now arent you, so I have to finish this NOW..." he said.

Music for the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4zh8RwhjZ0

After he did hundreds of tentacle like forms made of Cement burst from the ground, this time however soft and flexible instead of hard and shoot towards the vicinities, reaching to Lancelot... in which they tied around necks, feet, wings, you name it of either unconsciouss, half dead or any body or tissue it could grasp and like a toads toungue shoot backwards with its "prey" bringing bodies upom bodies of the citizens. Colts, filies, mares, stallions, yacks, gryphons. All that it was minus some exceptions, mainly those that were "too far away" of his effective radius, like the castle of lancelot.

And like it was bubblegum all bodies trapped by the magical cement tendrils collided. The bodies crashed and mashed into a paste, along with what used to be at one poiny his Adoptive Brother and Teacher's body. As the mass was molded again and agaim violently as the distraction against Crow and Stella stopped, both still dripping blood on the cold dust as the dust, quickly settled and were met with a show of nightmares before them.

"Blurt", "crack", "blegh" the tissue grew bigger and Homogeneus. They took steps back to what was forming between them.

"What the-?!, what is that?!, what is happening?!" Stella said

"Huh?!" Crown was equally scared and shocked, but he remembered

In the midst of the Snow storm-lit wasteland, under a sky torn asunder by violent, roiling clouds, the birth of a monstrosity unlike any seen before by them began. From a crater of snowy earth now blackened with what could be assumed to be blood, tendrils of dark energy crackled like whips of pure malice, exuding from a grotesque amalgamation of flesh stirred.

At first, there was nothing but a pulsing mound of viscera, twisted sinews, and mangled bones. The scent of decay and charred life filled the air, as if the battlefield itself was exhaling its final breath. From this mass, the tortured remains of perhaps hundred of creatures, hard to say. Were torn and fused together and began to writhe. A sickening, wet sound accompanied the growth, like muscle and sinew knitting themselves into place with unnatural speed.

Suddenly, a monstrous roar tore through the sky, a sound so deafening it felt like the earth itself recoiled in horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQPuRzzoGZQ

Out of the shifting mass, three heads emerged each with a evident Unicorn esque Horn on the middle one — each head however was long and serpentine, its jaws filled with fangs gleamed like daggers, dripping with the stench of death. The body filled golden scales that glistened like molten metal under the now created by the chaos storm’s lightning, reflecting an aura of malevolent power. Eyes the color of burning embers opened, surveying the world with clear intelligence, each head moving independently yet connected by a singular, dark purpose.

The creature’s bodies fully formed, revealing a colossal, hydra-like beast perhaps at about 30 to 35 meters of height and about 15 to 18 meters in Diameters, each neck towering them both and rising high looking at the storm, the bodies merging into a single, powerful trunk. Its wings, vast and leathery, unfurled from the base, casting an immense shadow across the land as they stretched out with a thunderous crack, as though the atmosphere itself rebelled against their presence.

The flesh from which it was born still pulsed and writhed across its form, as if it had not yet finished consuming the life essence of the creatures sacrificed to bring it into being. The scent of burnt ozone and rotting flesh permeated the air as the ground beneath the beast cracked and buckled under its weight.

Its very presence exuded a primal terror — a force of nature so incomprehensible that even brave warriors like them could feel their blood run cold. Lightning struck the ground around it, feeding its energy, the storm above it seemingly birthed from its own awakening.

It did not speak, but the shrill shrieks from each of its three heads echoed with the tormented screams of the countless souls it had consumed. Its enemies, watching from afar, could only tremble, knowing they faced not a mere creature but an UNKWON ENTITY...an UCE. UCE as their Acronym: Unidentified Corrupted Entitie's were instances were the Parasite, reached forms and force beyond normal comprehension. The UCE's were the embodiment of fear and they were rare — but they knew that this one however was an apex among them, born from the twisted remains of the living and powered by the relentless hunger for domination.

Those in Lancelot who saw it would speak of this day in hushed tones, if they survived at all. The birth of this nightmarish entity marked the beginning of an age of terror, for no average army could stand against it, and the weapon could pierce its amalgamated flesh with difficulty, even more so due to its size and If Crown Learned anything from His encounter with its Main Host, Fortress, it had magic to spare, and a unhinged regenerative ability. It was death, destruction, and chaos given form — a living apocalypse.

"...So this is an UCE huh?, Princess moon talked me about what they could be like, given the ocassional time the princesses faced this... but this is..." Stella was completely

"...yeah....magic to spare, Horned heads able of magic, a massive body, regeneration...we are fu-" Crown was about to say but he noticed something "no, wait....Look!" he pointed to the still forming creature's stomach were him and Stella Attacked, in which unlike the rest of the creature's body the formation of new tissue and or regeneration was Way slower and it seems like it had trouble to keep up.

"OF COURSE, IT CARBONIZED!" they realized. No matter how much creatures were meshed into this thing, it had a core. A main body if you would, and it was having a hard time keeping up cause the tissue was not just cut But carbonized, this being the reason for fortress to take out as much carbonized tissue as he could for carbonated tissue could not regrow obviously!, the quicker they acted the higher the chances!

"Hey, Stella..." Crown said

"Yeah?..." she answered as the almost completely formed creature roared again.

--End of scene---

--------Meanwhile with the others in the castle grounds------------------

The girls were being more and more cornered to a wall were Dawn's and Abundance's (in a lesser part) shield who contained Her, Serene and Pillows was getting slimmer and smaller but due to it being smaller as being close to a wall it helped thicken the layer somewhat. Serene was helping with her ability to keep Amber and Dawn the best tip top condition she could in terms of awareness and pain nullifing but even she was starting to black out.

Amber on her part had reduced their enemies considerably but they were still more of them, but she was not goint to last much Longer, and Amber was getting irate at Abundance's insistance on using the damn thing that according to Possesed fortress allowed a slip of intelligence who help cause this mess, to call the princesses, what was it called Radio?!

"Abby, stop with that toy of yers and focus on the bucking shield!" she screamed as the Voice of Abby calling for backup could be heard in the background.

But before they could continue their tirade the roar of the beast reached their ears and that of the remaining say 20% of their enemies who all stood at attention and stopped dead on their tracks.

Instinctually the heroine's body shivered in terror but their body stood their ground.

"What was that?!" the one's that were consciouss screamed, they knew were it came from too.

-Music for the scene 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D71rLY0fUS8

After a moment of Silence and peace the horde turned to them again and continued as if re-invigorated or they would have if in that moment a blinding light from a fire esque burst infront of them covered the arena making both the heroine's and their enemies cover their eyes at the blinding sight, momentarily.

"Abby, what the fuck?!" they all screamed to Abundance assuming she used a cluster of flash grenades or something "I didn't do anything!" she could barely scream back.

But in the midst of the confussion and light two voices broke the silence and acted like a beacon of light and hope for the girls.

"We.." huff "heard your..." huff "calling..." huff . Sounded the clear exhausted Voice of Princess Sol, clearly indicating they heard Abundance's call. "Oh, that explains that!" they tought, the princess came from who knows how long with a teleport, but she was no Crown...so of course she was exhausted and While she could recover however...

"I Should have been harsher on all of your trainnings..." said a cold voice. Making the Girls get a full body shiver, for hat was none other than Moon, their princess, their teacher, their trainer and their (hopefully) Aunt in law one day.

In a second a massive whist of Wind flew through the arena from the inside out clearing any fog or vapor after the teleport, that Like Crown seemed to be based on Heat, Typical from Sol, like Mother, Like son. However if the Sun's virtue is The heat . then the Moon is...///

"Crawl" Moon uttered without hestitation, as just as the girls and their enemies could regain a semblance of Vision, the first thing they could see was the gravity of the arena shifting, and the Bodies of their enemies collapsing to the ground in a 4 extremity position, like crawling bugs,

///Then the moon's virtue is... gravity.

The bodies of their enemies were pushed further and further to the ground making indentations, the sounds of bones fracturing and some even breaking resounded on the arena, until all their enemies laid uncapable of harming them anymore did Moon Stop, not that it took long but a mere moment.

However the pest was persistent for it seemed some Capable earth Ponies remained as well as a couple of Unicorns for as they Remained stomped to the ground, regardless in the matter of earth ponies did a new series of spikes of stone that were thrown at the princesses as well as being thrown all the available arrows that were in condition on the ground and after covering them in energy from the unicorns, were thrown to them as well.

"Tch" was all the reward from their efforts as all projectiles stopped suspeended mid air before they could ever reach Moon or Sol, the former after a flick of her hand turned the projectile heads oposite to her and without mercy pierced the guilty with their own weapons.

then for a moment there was silence, Sol was dripping with sweat and holding onto Moon for balance.

"Princesses, thank faust!, Crown and Stella are-!"dawn started, but.

"GROAAAAWWWWHHHHH" Another lowkey demonic roar vibrated in the air.

The princesses eyes widened at that.

"what the-!?

But they had no time to react to something else, for the "Hive" realizing the attention was going to the "core" instead using the poor bodies of the posseed and ignoring broken bones or the cry of muscle got up again despite everything, in a last attempt to stop them for as much time as posible in a final barrage of attacks.

--------------------------------------Back to Crown and Stella-------------------

-Music for the scene 3: --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzBpkVXc

"Remember when I said you were going to be my shield....?" he said exhausted

"Yeah?" she said

"...yeah...well i need you to be "my legs" if you would". he said

"...we are likely gonna die now trying to stop this thing arent we?" she answered sigh "Well, fuck" she said as she cracked her neck "Promises are Promises"

She then, using the fact that due to his current age he was smaller she could carry him somewhat "easily" with a grunt on the additional pain strain on her leg.

Then the UCE'S heads channeled energy channeled the thunder from the clouds that it made appear and charged for a moment, in wich dozens of big spikes from the ground appeared again in their direction, as Stella Carried Crown dodging all of them forcing her practiced Ability Again and again, dodging the best she could. As she did, the creature's heads blasted 3 different angled rays of thunder at them who they barely dodged again, this time recurring to fly to the sky to dodge, this last ones.

The rays for their part Destroyed a series of buldings left of the city in a straight line behind them leaving behind a trail of steam and debris, as the intense heat of the thunder melted the ice, and evaporated the water of the near vicinity and destroyed the infraestructure like a knife cuts butter.

"Any Ideas?!" Crown Showed a series of lefotver "charge" cards from their last opperation but this one's had a flame drawn on top of the grenade. "Incendiary grenades" Stella thought in realization, he saved his last card of his sleeve.

"we are going all in to burn the fucker's nucleus to a crisp. If what we tought was right" he pointed to the still healing spot in the creature's stomach near the hear that was still not "properly formed" "He", "is there. And if the head dies or gets carbonized the body dies"

"...fucking suicide missions with you always, I swear!" she complained but compelled "Then hold tight cause we have likely one only shot!"

"Shut up and help me create an opening!" he then grabbed her body tight as she hold him tight with one arm and in the other charged the sword, and like an eagle flied straight Up dodgint the few spikes that did follow them up, like targeted missils.

And as they fell faster and faster she cut through the new row of spikes by rotatting their bodies with a spin move with the help of her wings.

Shortly after, as the spin slowed down she threw her Sword at hight speed charged with thunder in the direction of the beast's heart not a second latter still in mid spin she dropped Crown who instead of falling using the momentum of the spin took her hands and spun her around finally adding his extra strength and that of his own still not developed wings threw her at an even higher speed before taking the falling sword's hilt at the second before colliding with the monsters abdomen were a shield of magic like before blocked the atack as the red hot steel sword propelled by speed and weight impacted doing a sound of sizzling.

The shield didnt broke but it cracked more and more as for second she kept the impact as her own hand's bones cracked with that strong of an impact.

The creature's heads though having a hard time with the shield (thanks to its massive appearance adding difficulty coordinating the shield, and due to the size of it, plus the new body) still displayed confidence.

That is before Crown fell a moment Later, inhaling a deep air and exhaling a stream of fire at the breaking point of it making it weaker and pulsate stopping his fall by mere vector force.

Then colliding with the shield he bited it like a rabbid dog finally making a opening that could fit his Knife that pierced a bigger hole of the shield and connect to the tissue of the beast to have a hold too, making it scream, allowing a big enough hole for the incendiary cards acces.

"And 3..." he tought as he looked to stella and gave a telling nod.

"2...." they stop their attack and retrieved their weapons or what was left of them and dropped of. Hugging each other and using their combined weights and wings fell in a fast dive out of there

"1..." a distance of about 10 meters away before the ground was near...

BOOOM!!!!

Author's Note

im still alive, it seems its gonna be a long chapter so in order to deliver with what I told in the past author notes I think Im going to divide it into 2, maximum 3 parts.

Hope you all still enjoy this.