The Newcomer

Scourge witnessed a flurry of movement, a bright light, and then they stood before him.

Six alicorns had arrived in the clearing. Scourge had to shield his eyes as one of them seemed to give off a bright light. The six of them, all appearing to be comprised completely of a single element, each had a gem of some sort reside below their horns. They appeared to be created from pure light, darkness, fire, ice, stone, and wind and from what Scourge could make out, their jewels were diamond, a piece of obsidian, ruby, sapphire, a shiny brown rock, and an emerald. None of them were seemed armed, but then, neither was he.

Scourge took a step back, this was not what he had been expecting. Each one of them must have been twice his size.

Without warning, the stone elemental rushed towards him, both front hooves raised, prepared to crush Scourge into dust.

Scourge ducked out of the way a split second before the mighty hooves struck the ground. He looked back to see that the stone elemental was now stuck in the ground, trying furiously to wrench it's front hooves free.

Scourge took his chance.

He clambered up onto the back of the monster, wrapped his front hooves around it's head and quickly wrenched it to the side, producing a satisfying crunch.It instantly went limp and fell to the ground. Scourge blinked twice before cracking a smile.

"That's it?" He yelled at the other elementals who had strangely stood unmoving the whole time.

The ice and fire elementals immediately sprung into action, the first unsheathing two blades from within its hooves, and charged as the second prepared for the same.

Scourge jumped backwards to avoid being sliced in half before firing a blast of dark energy that severed the ice elemental's right hoof at it's shoulder, as well as knocking it over.

He sprinted forward, grabbing the blade as he went. He swung the sword in an attempt to behead his fiery opponent, but the blade simply passed right through.

It responded by shooting a fireball that hit Scourge in the shoulder, causing him to cry out in pain. He managed to bring his sword up as he backed away, but it didn't let up. The fire elemental continued launching fireballs at him, but his stolen sword seemed to deflect them pretty well.

Suddenly he heard a scream. He looked up to see a familiar grey pegasus plummeting from the sky, a trail of fire and smoke behind her.

His eyes went wide.

"Derpy!" He exclaimed before he teleported.

Derpy Hooves had absolutely no idea what was going on. One second she was making a delivery, then she was plummeting from the sky, her wing ablaze, and now she was in the arms of some strange stallion.

Suddenly, she was on the ground, her savior leaning over her.

He tapped his hoof on her forehead.

"Look at me." He commanded.

She strained to focus her eyes on this stallion and after a moment or so of concentration, she was staring into what use to be  a familiar pair of eyes. Now the irises were almost completely gray.

"Okay, you're fine." He said. "Stay here. don't move."

Then he was gone.

Derpy looked to the group where he had been standing and noticed that the earth looked almost... dead.

Something was wrong. That she was sure of.

Scourge was now back in the clearing. Those three long distance teleports had left his magic energy rather low, so he would have to be careful from now on.

He ducked behind the corpse of the stone elemental to avoid being blasted by the fireballs now being hurled his way.

Suddenly, an idea came to him. He could easily suffocate a fire, and he was hiding behind something that would surely do the job.

He coated the corpse in magic and slowly pushed it forward until he was a mere five feet from his target. Then he pulled it apart to grains of sand, before covering his enemy from head to hoof in stone.

He heard something behind him and turned to face the danger. The ice elemental, minus one hoof and sword and rose to it's back hooves. It slashed the air angrily and charged.

Scourge ducked beneath a slash that surely would have taken off his head and delivered a powerful kick to his opponent's midsection. His enemy fell to the earth. Before it could react, He stomped on it's rear left leg as hard as he could, shattering it.

But the monster didn't give up. It stabbed one of it's swords into the earth and attempted to push itself back up. Scourge kicked it with all the strength he could muster, sending huge cracks up It's head.

It fell to the earth, unmoving.

Scourge was panting. He was nearly exhausted, both physically and in terms of magic but he was optimistic. He could win this.

Before the wind elemental could react, it too was coated in stone. Only Light and Darkness remained.

Speed had never been one of Scourge's strengths. He had never won a race in his life, he had always emerged victorious in battle because he was strong and brutal when he fought.

He had witnessed fast before. Rainbow Dash was fast. The Wonderbolts were fast. But these things they moved with absolutely incredible speed and grace. Before he could even blink. Light had pinned his front hooves behind his back and Dark had punched him in the stomach so hard the breath was forced from his lungs.

Light dropped him and he crumpled like a leaf. Dark grabbed him by the mane and held him up before Light. This creature actually appeared to be capable of changing it's expression. It gave him a look that was part distain, part respect. It was clear that it eyed him as a fellow warrior.

Light unsheathed a sword that seemed to glow in the darkness. It strangely held it in it's front hooves, raised to decapitate Scourge. A painless death, which was not what he deserved.

Scourge had managed to regain enough of his breath so that he could think straight. He had one chance, only one thing he could do that came to mind.

A blast of concussive energy left him, throwing both his assailants to the ground, but they were already rising once again. Scourge grabbed Light and Dark with magic and pushed them against each other.  Light and Dark don't mix, everypony knows that. The reaction was immediate. He held them together as hard as he could, they both started to expand slightly, energy building within them.

Suddenly, both of his adversaries went critical. The blast threw him to the ground as he screamed.

He slowly got to his hooves and surveyed the clearing. All that remained of the elementals were their gems, nothing more. Actually, that was inaccurate. The sapphire was nowhere to be found. Scourge looked around, holding his side.

He gasped.

Pain.

No.

Agony surged through him. He looked down to see a blade piercing his chest. It lifted him up, then twisted. Scourge coughed, sending a torrent of something warm down his chin and coat.

The blade was withdrawn, and he fell to the earth.

The last thing he saw before the world faded was his own hoof and a growing pool of blood.

Notes of the Author

I know that this is long overdue. I will try my best to get the next chapters out as quickly as I can. As always I would love to hear your feedback! Comments and likes are much appreciated.