A Colt's Darkness
Fighting the queen part 1
Previous ChapterNext ChapterHer room, it looked much different. There were blood bags and animal parts scattered everywhere. It was very messy compared to the last time he came in here, but he liked it like this. Sweetie Belle grabbed one of the many packs of blood with her magic and threw it to Spirit.
"Catch!" She shouted. Spirit had no intention of catching this, but he caught it. It felt odd to him that he wasn't even going to react to it., but he caught it instead. "Now toss it back." she commanded. Spirit tossed it back, despite not wanting to. "Now, catch!" She shouted as she hurled the blood pack at Spirit. He caught it again, as if something forced him to. "Yes! It worked!" Sweetie yelled out of excitement.
"What worked?" Spirit asked.
"I can't believe I forgot about this!" She shouted.
"Sweetie, what are you talking about?" Spirit asked again as he drank some of the blood.
"When vampires turn somepony, that pony becomes the servant! I turned you so you are my servant!" Sweetie Belle yelled as she jumped around the room. Spirit groaned.
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier!?" He yelled
"I never thought that I would turn somepony, so I just put it out of my mind." She said as she opened a bag of blood. "Besides, there is a way to get out of it. But I'm not telling you!"
"Of course you wouldn't. If you had someone who would do anything you said, would you honestly want to release them?" Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes, but agreed. Spirit finished the pack of blood and bit down on a piece of hanging meat. "Does anypony know that you did some redecorating?"
"No, I don't let anypony in here any more. No pony keeps their room this messy."
"Well, should I take this and leave?" Spirit asked as he held up the large piece of meat.
"Sure, you can go." Sweetie Belle said happily.
"Wait, what meat is this?" Spirit asked as the door opened.
"Manticore meat. Why do you ask?" Spirit shrugged and left the room. He continued to eat as he walked through the now empty halls. He was nearing his room, but was stopped by Vinyl.
"Where'd you get the meat? Octavia has been craving it and I don't want to kill Fluttershy's animals." She stated bluntly.
"Sweetie Belle gave it to me, but I don't know if she'll even let you into her room." Spirit said as he walked into his bedroom and finished the meat. When he entered, he noticed that his bed was gone. In its place, was a coffin with a note on it.
"Dear Spirit,
I got rid of your bed since you are a vampire now. You will be sleeping in a coffin like a true vampire from now on.
From, Sweetie Belle"
Spirit placed the note on the floor and opened the coffin to find that it had several blood packets in side of it. He inspected the coffin for a little longer before climbing into it. It was, to his surprise, very comforting. He found the inside to be very soft and relaxing, but the overall design of the outside made it look intimidating. Spirit quickly fell asleep, and had no dream. It was only darkness. Just like the dreams in his coma. He decided to think about his coma. He played out scenarios that would lead to his coma, but none of them seemed logical. He also remembered that he didn't know much about friendship, despite him having many friends now. He actually enjoyed his solitude, but didn't mind interacting with other ponies. He continued to trek through the darkness that was apparently his dream, only to find more darkness. He didn't even find his other forms. As he walked, he started to see grass, a few trees, and the moon. More trees began to appear, it became so thick and dense that he had trouble seeing. He couldn't feel his powers so much. He eventually came upon a very tall figure wearing incredible armor, an enormous scythe clinging to his armor, eyes that could pierce anypony's soul, had patches of fur, bat wings, long teeth, a silver mane and tail, and purple wisps flowing from his eyes.
"Hello?" Spirit said in a somewhat worried tone. The pony turned and gave Spirit a stare that would have killed him on the spot if it wasn't a dream.
"Hello. Do you know who we are?" He asked. Spirit felt he knew this pony, but he was almost certain that he didn't exist. This was only a dream to him.
"No, I don't know who you are. Should I?" He questioned.
"Yes, you should. We are your powers." he said. Spirit stepped back out of surprise.
This pony can't really be the source of all of my powers, can he? Last I checked, there were three separate forms... Spirit began to play out several scenarios in his head.
"How are you the source? I thought the sources were in three different forms?" Spirit asked.
"All we did was merge. We will soon die out into your subconscious. Then you will be the source of your power instead of us being the source."
"Define 'soon'."
"A week. Time for you to wake up now."
As his new form finished his sentence, a flash of light blinded Spirit and brought him back to reality. His coffin swung open. He was panting, and sweating.
Spirit slowly exited his coffin and immediately began gathering his supplies. He grabbed his sword, he got some knives so he could use the trick that he used on Celestia on Chrysalis, he did some last minute experimentation with his powers, and he got a glass of lemonade. He left his room to find everypony else only half ready for the fight. He swiftly made his way to the Mess Hall, he was able to find Gunner polishing one of his many guns, Lightning who was sharpening pieces of his armor, and Blade who was reading what appeared to be a spell book.
"Hey, hows it going Spirit?" Lightning called. Spirit quickly searched for a false answer.
"Yeah, you guys prepping for the battle?" Spirit asked.
"Yes, we are. We have been working on our combat skills for this battle specifically." Blade answered.
"So, you ready?" Gunner asked.
"Yeah, I think so." Spirit replied. "I'm gonna go check on everypony, I'll probably meet you all back here." He said as he made his way to the door. He entered the hall and saw that most of the others were now ready. He didn't see Sweetie Belle, so he went to find her. Everypony was very active, as they should be, but they seemed unnaturally calm about going into battle. He quickly came up on Sweetie Belle's room and found that she had just finished prepping. They had decided to talk on their way back to the others. "Hey, Sweetie Belle."
"What?"
"Is there anything else I should know about my powers?"
"The only other thing I know is that blood keeps vampires going along with sleeping in a coffin, but I don't know much on Lycans. Despite being one."
"Well, that was disappointing." Spirit said.
"How so?"
"I thought that there would be more, you know?"
"Well, Luna thought it would be best for me to learn how to use my powers on my own. So I don't know a lot about these powers." Sweetie said. They both fell silent, but Spirit was rapidly searching for a way to keep the conversation going.
"So, did you do any kind of special preparation for the fight?" Spirit asked. That was a probably a really bad way to keep the conversation going... He thought to himself.
"Yeah, I've been trying to connect with my other forms so that we are just as capable as any other pony here. What about you?" She asked.
"I haven't really done much training since that fight with Celestia, so I am still around that level of power. I just hope that Chrysalis isn't much stronger than Celestia, or we will all be in trouble." Spirit stated grimly. "I think we should hurry, we need to make a plan." They both ran through the halls and made it to the conference room. Everypony else was already there. They were all talking, but quickly grew silent as Sweetie Belle and Spirit entered the room. Sweetie Belle sat next to Scootaloo and Applebloom, and Brawny Spirit sat next to Luna and Twilight.
"So, let us begin." Luna said as she motioned for Twilight to speak.
"We will first talk about what we know of the enemy's forces. Applbloom and Scootaloo, do you two know anything?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, we do. We have discovered that Queen Chrysalis is emitting power greater than Celestia's, but it is just barely greater than Celestia's power. So we may have a chance if we get to her in good shape. We also suspect that there are at least four thousand changeling warriors guarding the perimeter of Chrysalis' castle. We have also detected a spell that guards her and her minions from Discord's magic."Scootaloo said as she let Applebloom talk.
"We think that if we were sendin' everypony in there, we would need ta hit'em hard with one of Gunner's cannons." Upon hearing this, Gunner had a maniacal smile spread across his face.
"Now, Applebloom and I think that it would be a good idea to strike from the north and strike from the south. It would catch them off guard and we could also spread her forces a little thinner." Scootaloo said.
"It sounds good." Spirit said. "Now, lets get the teams together. Princess Twilight, Princess Cadence, Shining Armor, Big Macintosh, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash will strike from the South. Sweetie Belle, Luna, Gunner, Blade, Lightning, Vinyl, Octavia, and I will strike from the North."
"No." Twilight said. "We will take Vinyl Scratch with us, we need our own heavy hitter you know." Spirit thought for a moment, but nodded in agreement.
"Fine. I don't know how she is a heavy hitter, but whatever. So, what do we have for medical supplies?"
"We have several emergency blood packs for you, pain killers, medical herbs, many bandages, syringes, scalpels, emergency body fluid, and some extra food and water." Doctor Pill said as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Sweetie Belle all grabbed some emergency kits.
"Good, that will help greatly. What will everypony else do?" Spirit asked.
"We will send you messages with my magic when we have an update on the battle." Discord replied. Spirit smiled and nodded to him.
"Good. Now, do we know anything else on Chrysalis? Like, attacks or something?" Spirit asked.
"Moves similar to Celestia's, but that is all we know. Obviously they can transform, but we already knew that..." Scootaloo said.
"So, now that we have finished that, shall we go?" Luna asked. They all nodded, got their things, and left for the battle. They all flew to the Badlands, where Chrysalis sits, waiting for the enemy. They didn't use chariots. Luna, Twilight, Spirit, and anypony else who could fly lifted the others to their destination. They had to be slow and quiet, they couldn't afford to have any changelings see them, despite being only half way to the objective. As they got closer to the changeling hive, the sky began to darken. It was only 9 in the morning. They decided to double their pace. The views of the towns they flew over, the animals, the overall landscape was very impressive. It made him feel calmer. They then arrived at the Macintosh Hills, which acted as a wall that protected the hive that lay beyond it. They then split of into their specafied groups, and prepared for their attack.
Author's Note
Yeah, I know the letter from Sweetie Belle was horribly made. Just try to cut me some slack on that one. I will also try to do better on my grammar, mainly the "Your and You're" thing. I really messed up there. I am not going back to fix the problems in previous chapters. I want to focus on the new ones. When I finish, I might go back and change it. Despite it not really being important at that point. Also, Cades the Sharkbear is like, the second person to really say how my story should improve. I will say this, most of the problems that you guys see were intended. I will fix some of them. The one that I get a lot is "He is a Gary Stu." He really is, I will show why he isn't in future chapters. I hope you enjoyed it, sorry for the long wait, and sorry for this long message.
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