Chapters Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Present Day, 396 days since the Void crisis, 164 days since magic failed, 295 days since 'the twilight times'.
The brown coated, grey maned Earth pony that ponies simply called just; Dust, trotted quietly through darkness which was the Everfree Forest with his small squad of ten ponies, recruits really, each younger than himself but each had their own skills, they were all armed and armoured in Equestrian-Canterlot gear, a bluish colour iron and steel plating and everypony were all wearing a gold-brown coloured leather saddle which held some sort of weapon. They were after a group of humans reported to have been camping in the area, Dust and his team were part of the EHCG, or Equestrian Human Clean-up Group. It was their job to find and capture, or kill any human renegades hidden in Equestria.
The group were closing in on where the encampment was, slowly drawing closer. One green Pegasus, Tye Lin, shot into the air to scout the surrounding area in hopes of spotting something, anything that could speed the day up.. The flying Pegasus could see smoke from a fire lifting into the air not to far away, these humans weren't hiding very well and would soon be either dead, in prison or with the over humans in the compound Princess Celestia had built for them as a place they could survive, even after they came to kill everypony.
Tye landed and nodded to Dust, who lowered the gun saddle, aiming straight ahead. Equestria had changed since the human battle, both in good terms and bad. But magic had been failing and despite what unicorns may say, it is dying. The land had been in twilight for over seven months now and the world was suffering. The humans had obviously left most of their weapons when the portal closed over a year ago and pony engineers had attached the human guns to saddles, much like the spear or sword. So ponies could now use human weapons against them. Equestria had certainly changed. And not for the better.
"Dust!" A pony shouted, the colt ran instinctively into a clearing from where the fire had been and the pony had called. Around the campfire was a sight worse than death. The entire encampment was covered in blood and gore was splashed everywhere, torn limbs and bones scattered around, the few humans that were recognizable were covered in blood. One had what looked to be a gun shot wound to the head, a decay pistol lay at the dead mans side. Something had come here and killed the encampment. Something big. It had just torn through these humans like nothing, killing everyone in sight.
"What do you suppose it is?" Tye asked. Dust bowed his head and released the gun aim with his hoof, the weapon tilted upwards again, no humans to kill, but possibly some sort of Everfree spawn, either way, lunch was ruined.
"I don't know Tye." Dust replied, he wasn't very good with Equestrian monsters but Dust was smart enough to know no Hydra could've done all this death and destruction.
"Couldn't have been. Ponies?" Tye asked, a stupid question really, but the young pony meant well.
"Ponies? No, it wasn't any of us, we are the only ones out here. Even the Changelings aren't that brutal." Dust said. There was a loud roar suddenly, long, and deep, everypony went dead quiet, some began to twitch and even a gun went off through misfire, a single tree was hit and the quick decay meant the rather large black wood tree fell whilst the shot continued to burn through, much like a brown acid.
"Never heard that kind of noise before." Dixy said, the group mage, she couldn't use magic, like any other unicorn at the moment, but was brought along because she knew about the monsters of the Everfree, and if she didn't know what that noise was from. It would have to be bad.
A pony screamed out and vanished into the forest suddenly, there was a quick ripping sound and cries of agony before. Silence. Whatever made that noise wasn't discriminating against humans.
"Run!" Dust shouted, bringing the gun down and firing at random, trees began to decay and everypony began to panic and run. More and more ponies suddenly screamed out and more ripping or crunching.
Dust soon found himself trapped, Dixy ran out of the forest and stood with Dust, bringing her gun down.
"We will fight it then." Dust muttered, aiming down the gun, hoof on trigger.
"Its been an honour sir." Dixy muttered, crying slightly, this unicorn was just a filly. Really. Barely above a novice level mage when the magic stopped working. Too young to be fighting. The poor mare.
"Same Dixy." Dust replied slowly, they were going to die. A pony screamed out and then silence.
The pair stood ready in front of a rock for almost ten minutes, the pair debated whether to run for it or not. Then footsteps could be heard, giant, loud footsteps. A tree feel nearby and suddenly, the attacker was seen. A huge red, glowing bull man stood still. It had a pointed purple tail and two white horns, veined wings were attached to its back and the thing held a huge fiery mace. The spare hand was all claws. It roared again and began to walk toward the two ponies. They shot with their weapons to no effect, Dixy screamed out and shot wildly.
"What the fuck is it Dixy!" Dust shouted, the figure got closer and prepared to swing its weapon.
"Dust!" Dixy shouted, noticing the attacker prepare a blow.
"What. The. Fuck. Is. It?" Dust repeated, generally scared, this was it, the end of Dust. It had been a good life.
"Demon!" Dixy shouted. And with that, pain overtook Dust and he died crying.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Two Days Later
Celestia stood at the head of the table at Canterlot tower, everypony sat in front of her. Rainbow Speed, Steven the Serpent and the others who had been Equestria's knights and heroes for years now. It had been nearly a year exactly since the Void had been destroyed by Sir Bright Haze and the defeat of the humans, but all was not well in Equestria and the surrounding kingdoms. Celestia had now gathered everypony to discuss these matters.
"So, why are we here Celestia?" The Pegasus husband of Rainbow and friend to Haze asked.
"Equestria is in trouble." Celestia replied, with that the magically powered talking Knife, sir Knifely the sharp, or Nick got up and walked toward the door.
"Well you can get somepony else to do it. Because I have retired, we all fucking have. This is the second time you have brought us back and this time you can fix it. Your Highness." Nick said, but quickly sat down when his best friend, the giant serpent from the Everfree forest, Steven, gave the knife a cruel look.
"Look it is not to help with the twilight state, I have mages and myself looking into that and many in your number are not even unicorns. Or ponies for that matter." Celestia replied, looking to the serpent, Nick and the human made alicorn; Heart Breaker.
"Then what?" The Siren Pegasus Dari, who could now speak and practically fully recovered from her rebirth asked.
"Well, with our human clean-up teams, I always assign a unicorn who, due to the limited magic we seem to have right now, will record everything that happens in case the humans ever grow strong enough to fight, and defeat a team. But one team hasn't returned from a mission into the Everfree in two days now." Celestia answered, everypony went quiet.
"Hydra? Or other spawn of Everfree? How could that cause an entire team to not return, or even, I presume call in to say they are trapped or wounded. They have guns now!" Rainbow called out.
"No, they haven't called in. And no, it isn't any sort of creature I have seen before. Just watch the recording that I received earlier today, it takes a while to get here due to little magic." Celestia muttered. Then her horn began to glow and a picture could be seen on the wall of the tower, everypony fell silent and watched as the image became a movie. Ponies moved slowly, silently through the Everfree, there was some quick discussion and the moved into the clearly. The camp had been massacred. A few ponies made upset groans at this, Fluttershy nearly throw up. The video played more with some conversation and then panic began to spread as an unknown beast cried out in anger. After a second the unicorn and some other pony began to run, gunfire and disgruntled screams from ponies dying soon followed. The screams stopped and the two ponies stopped.
"What in Equestria was that?" Rarity asked.
"Just wait." Celestia replied, clearly upset. The roar came again and some huge red figure bounded out of the forest and promptly killed the two ponies, the video stopped.
Everypony sat in silence for what seemed like an eternity.
"What in Equestria-?" Rainbow Speed began.
"Demon. And its not of Equestria, or this world." Dari interrupted. She sat staring at the fixated image of the red figure. Leaning forward a bit glowing with magic.
"Dari?" Rainbow asked, the magic cut out and all colour drained from her blue face.
"It would seem. The Void is far from dead." Dari muttered quietly. "And if the demon has the magic I believe it to have, the Multiverse is collapsing."
"What does that mean?" Rainbow asked, slowly, choosing her words carefully.
"That not only may this demon be the least of our worries, but we may be getting more 'visitors', some not very friendly." Dari replied, the room went quiet again.
"What do you suppose is behind this?" Nick asked after a while.
"Either the Mo'ka are far from dead, or something worse. Much worse."
"What could be worse then the Mo'ka? Anyway Haze killed them." Spectra grunted.
"The Mo'ka are children compared to some races of the Multiverse, and Haze may have only destroyed part of the Void, leaving them wounded, and pissed."
"What do we do?" Celestia asked, despite her age apparently Dari knew more on this matter than the goddess herself.
"Well we have no choice, first, we need magic, and I know just where to get it. Next, we recruit from other, universes, and finally. We go to war."
"With who?" Rarity asked.
"Who do you think? Mo'ka and their allies, because if they are the cause of this, we will have a hell of a run."
"Well then. One thing at a time, how do we restart Equestria's magic?" Nick asked.
"We go into the old ice lands and recover the thing the unicorns used for their magic. The Heart of the World. It can store unlimited magic energy." Dari muttered, everypony nodded.
"When do we leave?" Twilight asked.
"Now. Get ready, it'll be a long trip."
"Into the valley of death we go." Nick muttered.
"We are so fucked." Rainbow added.
"So, drinks are on me." Spectra added and everypony prepared for the trip.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Sky Dwellers filled the space which was once the marketplace, all gathering to listen to the ex advisor of the old king, then fired by the new one, he had called that every Dweller to go to the market as he had something important to share. Everypony had come, only a few Equestrians stood guard but were soon dismissed from duties as Luna needed them. Everypony stood around, wearing mining equipment and holding pickaxes. The figure of the advisor stood on a platform above the rest, his mane was a mess and his royal clothes had lost colour and were now ripped and ruined, his left eye kept twitching and scars covered most of his body.
"Dwellers!" He cried into the crowd. "I brought you all here today to tell you all, our king. Bright Haze of Equestria, is dead, he fell due to his own stupidity in trusting the Equestrians. He banned our weapons and took our lineage and history away from us, we were once the master race! Now we have fallen to the weaklings of the Equestrians. But no more my ponies. I have a way out!" The advisor shouted, some ponies began to ask questions.
"Our way of survival is to join our dead, in the promised land! We must pass through the Void and be with our brethren of the dead! We must take away our bodies from Equestria! My friends, we must die so our once glorious name lives on! Forge weapons, kill yourselves and the Sky Dweller name shall live on as something of glory, not defeat!" A few ponies actually began to cheer, some began to stab themselves and bleed out where they stood.
"Go and spread the word to any who couldn't be here today, find ways and pass on to the promised land!" The advisor said and ran into the crowd, grabbing up a pick as he did. He ran through the cheering crowd, not one stopped to think or question him, just continued the mass suicide. Equestrian guards were now appearing including the Princess herself, Luna.
"Luna!" The advisor shouted, blood was filling the air and the cloud layer became red and stained. "Let this be the day of the fall of the weak. We are the strong and the master race and will not let some Equestrian rob us of our rights! To the promised lands my ponies!" And with that, the advisor stabbed himself, letting blood and guts flow freely onto the floor. The pony began to laugh, feeling no pain. Then died, laughing. Guards ran into action, taking weapons away from ponies and dropping them from killing themselves. Luna stood and watched. Unsure what to do, she just. Watched.
Back in Canterlot everypony was ready to lead, with Dari elected to be in charge she had been ready for over an hour. It was near on nightfall now but they couldn't afford to waste any time. There was a demon about and a war to win. Dari wore some thick coat for the snowy conditions of old Equestria, white and and grey in camo colour. Dari had a thick saddle on with a mini crossbow attachment with an iron hoof garment with some long knife blade hidden from view. She had googles over her forehead and looked to be ready for the artic. Everypony else worse similar ware, except Steven of course, he had the spare bags, and a long cape made from various furs ready if he needed it. Everypony was sweating all ready but the cold was near on unpreparable, and here they were, prepared.They had enough food for decent rations to last nearly two months, the trip should only take about a week, two weeks. Exciting.
Everypony was ready and they all stood at the new gates of Canterlot. Luckily it was becoming winter in Equestria so they wouldn't melt in their thick gear. Dari stood at the front of the group staring of into the distance, the moon was beginning to rise and the stars shone, catching on the snow of the mountains and causing colourful lights to appear in the sky. Mainly green, but it would sometimes change to red or purple.
"We ready?" Rainbow asked, pissing about with her crossbows firing mechanism.
"No, but lets go. Sooner we go sooner we can get back." Nick replied.
"How do you suppose we get this Heart back once we find it?" Spectra asked, holding a double bladed axe in one hoof, leaning it against his neck and back.
"We can't carry the fucking thing, it would weigh a ton." Rainbow said.
"Steven will need to carry it." Dari muttered, not looking away from the north
"Well it might not be that heavy, being magical and that crap." Heart Breaker added.
"Who knows?" Rainbow asked.
"Let's just fucking get there first." Nick said, the group nodded and began to trot on.
The trip would be hard and boring, everypony knew that, in case they ran into this Demon the group decided to go round the Everfree, putting on an added few days to their already long trip, but everypony agreed it was worth it. Just because they weren't in the Everfree however, didn't mean they were all safe, everypony was on high alert, watching the darkness and preparing for a fight everytime a noise of some unknown monster screamed out.
"Just keep moving." Dari said at one point, where everypony had stopped, a human scream had filled the air, followed by a few gunshots, then. Nothing. The noise was loud, but not very far, well, as far away as anypony would've liked. The group pushed on, hopeful to just get the trip over with. But everypony knew this was just the first leg of their journey and had far to go even after getting this Heart back for the magic.
They walked for nearly the entire night and much of the day, Canterlot couldn't be seen anymore and they had cleared the mountain on which it stood. Everypony was tired and worn out already, all except Dari maybe. She refused to stop.
Everypony suddenly slumped to the ground getting sleeping gear out to sleep finally, only Dari continued to walk.
"Dari. Hold up, we should camp here." Spectra called out, the land here was near on empty, a few hills and trees, but nothing exciting. The Siren Pegasus turned her head but otherwise kept walking
"Dari!" Rainbow shouted. The Pegasus stopped and turned around.
"We need to keep moving." Dari replied.
"Why? I know we are in a rush but we need sleep." Rainbow asked, then her stomach growled. "And food." Everypony nodded.
"We are being followed, we have been since we left Canterlot." Dari muttered, more quiet now.
"What do you mean? By what? Demon?" Nick asked.
"No, somepony I don't know who, I have seen them a few times today, watching us from a distance." Dari replied.
"What should we do, we can't keep moving, even this pony needs rest, we need it as well." Rainbow muttered.
"Fine, we camp here then. But we should keep guards, I'll go first." Dari grunted in defeat. Everypony sat down and prepared for sleep, out of the darkness Dari could see the groups follower, watching from atop a hill. It ran away and disappeared into the night as Dari looked to it.
"What are you?" Dari asked to herself. Then grabbed up a spear and waited.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
The next morning Dari awoke to the sun, everypony had slept all through the night, she stood up to prepare herself and put on her snow clad armour, the Siren streched a little and gave a yawn, still tired but ready to go. Nick, who was on guard noticed her up and walked over.
"Morning Siren." He greeted, also pulling his arms away from his knife body and making the sound of a yawn
"Morning Knife." Dari replied more tired then she was meant to be.
"Its Sir Knife to you." Nick joked, he bowed slightly and laughed.
"I would've been knighted to you know." Dari replied, bringing a hoof up and waving it in a circle.
"Yeah well you were. Dead." Nick said, slow, regretting his words.
"Ha, don't remind me." Dari replied smiling for once.
"Sorry."
"Its okay Nick, come on. Lets wake everypony up." Dari muttered and walked up to Rainbow and Spectra, the two were sleeping soundly together, hugging. Rainbow was smiling in her sleep and cuddled up to Spectra more.
"How adorable." Nick muttered standing over the pair.
"Yeah." Dari replied quietly.
"SUN'S UP LOVE BIRDS, WAKE THE FUCK UP!" Nick shouted, proud of himself. The two jumped up very quickly. Figuratively shit themselves. Rainbow just gave an evil glare at the knife and Spectra punched the knife, nearly cutting himself.
"Fuck you Nick." Spectra muttered, the knife was smiling, well would if he could.
"What?" Nick asked. Dari just laughed and watched as everypony else slowly began to wake up. The group had a small breakfast and moved on, Steven however had to go into the Everfree and kill some animals to eat, he was getting to be a large dragon rather than the smallish serpent they once knew him as.
"Keep growing like this Steven and we will be able to ride you." Rarity shouted up, dwarfed by the serpent.
"Ha. Well until then, its only Nick." Steven replied. The knife however was actually on foot, having to run to catch up to everypony. Dari and Spectra were at the front of the group and Heart Breaker stood at the back, walking slow.
"Poor Heart Breaker." Spectra muttered.
"What do you mean?" Dari asked.
"I think he is still mourning Haze, well we all are, but they were both human most of their lives." Spectra replied.
"Ah of course, did they know each other? Sorry since Rebirth my memory isn't so good." Dari grunted.
"No. Well not that they have said anyway."
"I see."
"How is Treeborn?" Spectra asked after a short silence.
"For a four year old filly. She drives me insane." Dari replied.
"You're telling me, try to kids whose mother is Rainbow Speed." Spectra laughed.
"Well yours were planned, mine.-" Dari muttered. "-Treeborn is just the after effects of the Rebirth. She shouldn't excist."
"Well Dari, she is. You shouldn't feel bad, having a child is the best thing in the world."
"What about losing one?" She asked, talking about Haze having to watch his filly Tage die.
"Well." Spectra started not really sure how to handle that, eventually he gave up. "I don't know." Spectra muttered, must be horrible, worse than anything.
"Well I am sure Canterlot nursery will look after all our children til we return."
"Yeah. I guess." Dari grunted. Heart Breaker suddenly rushed forward to the front.
"What we talking about?" He asked.
"Nothing Heart Breaker." Spectra replied quickly. Dari looked confused but said nothing.
"Good, so how far we got?" Heart Breaker asked.
"We are only in our second day Heart." Dari muttered.
"I know that. I meant how long we got of, this.-" He replied pointing his hoof around the bare and boring landscape, even the Everfree was beginning to disappear into the distance. "I wanna kill something." He added.
"No idea Heart. We should be close to the mountains by tomorrow, then over and across a small ocean and straight up north for about four days." Dari answered.
"How do you suppose we cross an ocean with no boats?"
"Well hopefully some stable boats from Old Equestria are still there, or, we ride Steven across." Dari replied. Heart Breaker was going to question it but decided against it.
"Well, we got a very long trip then. How long over the mountains?" Spectra asked.
"About two or three days, most likely four with our numbers." Dari replied.
"How come you know so much about this trip?" Heart Breaker asked.
"Back in Elwood, my home.-" Dari began, she sobbed a bit at painful memories quickly but the continued. "-We had to make the trip, on foot to Old Equestria to get enough magic from the Heart to become true Sirens. Without it, we are just normal ponies, everypony could take the test, many died, we may even see some old bones still there, but even crippled unicorns would go just to regain their magical ability."
"Do you think it would work. On me?" Heart Breaker asked sheepishly.
"Maybe, I have never seen a Siren Alicorn, let alone a human try it. It could work." Dari replied, Heart Breaker smiled slightly and laughed.
"Come on, we still got miles to go." Spectra muttered, also smiling.
"Of course we do. And I am going to complain every minute." Nick said, suddenly appearing on Heart Breaker's back.
"Piss off. You ride Spectra." Heart Breaker laughed, bucking the knife off who fell to the ground.
"Spectra?" Nick asked.
"No, fuck ya. You woke me up." Spectra laughed, then knelt down to let Nick climb on.
"You need a shave mate." Nick said, copying Spectra's accent.
"Don't push it." Spectra replied then put a hoof to his face, small hairs were growing, soon to form a beard.
"Bullocks. Hey Nick. Can I borrow you?" Spectra asked.
"Wait til we get back Speed." Nick replied quickly, folding his arms.
"Fine." Spectra said. "Tiny bastard." The Pegasus muttered, smiling.
"I heard that." Nick replied, talking into Spectra's ear.
"I said don't push your luck. I'll go Red."
"You know you can't control it like that."
"Not yet." Spectra grunted. Not yet. The group kept walking.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
The Next Day
The small band of ponies wondered through the empty lands in silence, they had been at it all of yesterday and much of today, it was near on midday now and Dari suddenly came to a stop. Everypony slowly caught up to her. She stood just short of a hoof dug trench spanning as far as any pony could see. Some black paint or tar or something filled it and the black line spread for miles in both directions.
"What it is?" Spectra asked.
"Past this line, we are out of Equestrian borders." Dari muttered. Spectra nodded and the group moved on. Nick was the last to cross the line.
They walked for another hour or so, then finally. The mountains appeared, tall, much larger than most in Equestria, but Canterlot and the Tip of the World was still on top.
"We have to climb those?" Rainbow grunted.
"Not up and over, there is a cave system through the middle mountain about a quarter of the way up. But it hasn't been used in years. Since the Siren Fall and before." Dari replied.
"Well I vowed to never climb another damn mountain again." Spectra muttered.
"You're going up there." Rainbow replied.
"Yes ma'am." Spectra replied, Rainbow just laughed and kissed him. They moved on in silence, everypony would talk now and again but they were mainly focused on getting through the trip. Dari staying in front next to Steven, Nick was on the Serpent's back as usual, no pony would've noticed the knife if not told, almost a dot compared to the giant.
"Holy Celestia I am pooped." Nick suddenly declared.
"You haven't actually done any exercise since we started, well except the four minutes of running yesterday." Steven replied.
"Well one; that wore me out, and two; it was four minutes and eight seconds." Nick muttered, proud of that fact.
"So four minutes of running will ware you out, but hours of battle you are fine?"
"Yeah something like that." Nick replied. Suddenly Steven stopped. "What?" Nick asked. Steven kicked Dari gently who also stopped. Steven felt something walk into him and turned around, behind him stood Spectra.
"I walked into you fucking ass mate, why did you stop?" Spectra asked. Then saw, far ahead was a lone figure, limping and slow, but heading toward them.
"Human." Spectra muttered and walked round Steven. Toward the enemy.
"Spectra." Rainbow muttered, the Pegasus pony released the safety on his gun saddle and aimed.
"I have a shot." Spectra muttered looking down the sight.
"Wait." Fluttershy muttered, everypony looked to her. "He looks hurt." She muttered, blushing at all this attention.
"He is an invader. That right there is the reason Haze is dead." Spectra replied, not taking his aim off the advancing human.
"But." Fluttershy muttered.
"Besides, he has a gun." Spectra muttered.
"Wait. Maybe we should spare him. It the most honourable thing." Heart Breaker said. Spectra didn't look away.
"Spectra Speed. Let go of the trigger." Rainbow said rather sternly. Spectra let go and put the gun back.
"Fine." He grunted.
"Thank you." Rainbow replied. "Anyway, if he tries anything then we can kill him. He can't do any damage alone." She added.
"Fine. We will regret this." Spectra muttered.
"Lets just go greet the man." Heart Breaker replied. "Remember Spectra, one of your best friends is human." He added, winking. The group moved forward to get closer to the human Applejack ran in front and waved her hat into the air.
"Howdey partner!" She yelled, the human practically shit himself and jumped, lifting his gun up as he did. Everypony got weapons ready.
"Calm down, lower your weapons!" Heart Breaker asked, running between everypony and the human. The human lowered his decay rifle first.
"I'm friendly." He shouted, throwing his gun to the ponies and raising his hands into the air.
"What the fuck does that mean?" Spectra grunted.
"I won't shoot. I, I am a friendly. I betray the UNOSE and they tried to kill me. I ran. Please, I am friendly." The human replied. He had army clothes on, like that of those who had invaded in the pods first, a small backpack on and a black beard beginning to grow. His UNOSE badge was gone, in it's place was a piece of torn fabric.
"Have you ever killed a pony?" Spectra asked, gun still ready.
"No. Never." The human replied.
"Have you hurt a pony?"
"No."
"Have you ever fired your gun?"
"Yes. When I shot my captain before he could order the execution of a small female pony."
"It's called a filly boy."
"Yeah. There was this little filly running to who I presumed was her dad shouting his name, Haste I think. My captain told me and the squad to shoot her and I shot him right between the eyes, I ran then. Didn't stop running until I couldn't hear the gunfire. I kept running for nearly a week and fell, through bushes and caves. I have been surviving out in that forest miles back for, I don't know how long, months, years. Eating whatever I could find that didn't already have dead animals, ponies or humans laying around it." The human said.
"What is your name?" Spectra asked.
"Crystal." The human replied.
"Alright Crystal. I am going to say this straight. You can join us if you wish, but you make a single move against any of us and you will be eating your own shit after I finish with you. I don't trust you and I hate your kind, except a few, and everything you stand for. Got it?" Spectra asked. The human nodded. "Good. Twilight you can heal him if you wish." Spectra added and walked away, Rainbow following.
"I don't trust him." Spectra muttered.
"I know dear, you made a very clear point of that." Rainbow replied. Flying slightly.
"He can just boost up the numbers?" Spectra asked.
"Of course. I think he's kinda cute though, can we keep him." Rainbow asked, jokingly.
"Cute?" Spectra asked.
"But you're adorable." Rainbow joked.
"Not adorable." Spectra grunted, not realising Rainbow was joking.
"Well you are good at some things." Rainbow muttered and slapped Spectra's arse playfully.
"Stop it."
"Fine. Come on, we got a long way to go." Rainbow smiled, then flow away lifting her tail up deliberately.
"Bullocks." Spectra muttered and caught up to everypony, and everyONE.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Celestia sat silent staring out of the window. It had now been a whole week since the group of ponies had gone out to retrieve the Heart, and the alicorn goddess was getting worried. No word had been sent from them on any progress and the pony scout she sent to follow them has gone missing, presumably killed by the Demon. If so, it wouldn't be too far away from the group. She busted prayed to Faust they were kept safe. Suddenly the silence was disrupted. There was a strange noise that just, began. Something Celestia had heard before. Portal opening. She stood and shouted for some guards as the purple vortex began to form. Celestia had no idea what would come through, she prepared a spell and let her horn glow, finally the figure came through. It was, a pony? The portal closed behind a rouge build Earth pony of a dark cyan colour, much like Haze, with a short mane of orange with red highlights stood in front of the princess. The pony was a stallion and his cutie mark was that of a hammer. He had a saddle strapped to him and it held a rather large maul hammer made of stone and iron, it had black half moon shaped gem in the centre.
"Morning." The pony muttered, happily, he had a deep voice and spoke with a slight English accent.
"Hello?" Celestia greeted, confused, of all the things that could have come through the portal. The guards walked in.
"Where am I may I please ask." The pony asked.
"Canterlot, Equestria." Celestia replied.
"Well how the dickens did I end up here? Just now you see I was on Mars." He explained.
"Mars?"
"Yes, the big red planet in the sky. I was, well, I am, a freedom fighter for Mars, we fight the EDF, or Equestrian Defense Force. Now what in the worlds is going on?"
"You have been, transported."
"From Mars to Equestria in a matter of seconds? Impossible!"
"Well, not only Mars to Equestria, but I believe you have gone through dimensions."
"What kind of magic is this?"
"Enemy magic. The Multiverse is currently at war with the Void-Dwellers simply known as the Mo'ka and in response, they are destroying the Multiverse, bringing Universes closer, opening portals between them randomly and sending both Frieda and foe to here, the start of the revolt." Celestia explained.
"So, where does one join up to help this cause?" The pony asked.
"Just say the word and you are in, we are currently waiting on my knights to bring back a magical Heart that will restore this worlds magic. What is your name pony?" Celestia asked.
"My name is Slayer, may I have the pleasure of knowing yours."
"Princess Celestia, co ruler of this Equestria." Slayer bowed down.
"Ah, princess. I had no idea you were of royalty." Slayer muttered, then asked for forgiveness.
"No, the crown, giant castle or guards would've of given it away." Celestia muttered so the pony didn't hear.
"Hmm?" He asked.
"You are forgiven." Tia replied. The guards took the hint that Slayer was no threat and sort of buggered off on their own account.
"Thank you Your Majesty." Slayer said. Bowing again.
"Stop it." Celestia muttered. "Now. Tell me about your dimension, how is Mars, breathable?" She asked.
"It was Terraformed by the EDF."
"Terraformed?"
"Yeah, the unicorns in the EDC, Equestria Defence Council, build a machine that pumps oxygen and magic into any atmosphere, and it worked, well on Mars, they never tried anywhere else. Yet. Soon after pony colonies began the EDF took over, the first revolt started, which was soon crushed, now a second one has started, we are apparently being lead by some Pegasus Dash Mason, but I have never taken an order from him, let alone see him. My job is to charge into miltary bases and blow stuff up with a hammer." Slayer replied, looking to the weapon at his side.
"I see, who is in charge of Equestria?"
"The EDC, there are eight of them, all taking charge of Earth, the Moon base and the six colonies on Mars."
"No princesses?"
"We haven't had one in over two thousand years, the world has been lead by kings or queens, until the EDC began."
"I see."
"Yes. Indeed." Slayer muttered a reply. There was a knock on the now closed door.
"Come in." Celestia called, the door opened and a unicorn came in, gave a sealed letter to Celestia, bowed and walked out, closing the door.
"Letter?" Slayer asked.
"Yes. Hopefully from those ponies I said about earlier." Celestia muttered then opened the letter. She read, her eyes scanning every word, he emotion changing as she read.
"It appears, Equestria's old enemy, Changelings, are beginning to grow stronger. They attacked a supply train going to the Sky Dweller city in the east and claim they only made peace with Haze, an old friend, and now he's dead they want war again." Celestia grunted, upset by this news.
"Oh dear. Will there be war?"
"Hopefully not. I shall send my best advisor to try to talk them out of anything to rash, we are already at war with the Mo'ka. We can't fight each other on two fronts."
"No, of course not."
"Well then, I must be going. I shall get a room for you ready and you may stay in the castle if you so choose, but if not other accomadation will be provided, please excuse me." Celestia said and got up to walk out.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
A blizzard was raging, snow and ice fell from the sky mercilessly, pounding downwards onto the group of ponies and human. They were thankful of the armour they were harbouring but were still extremely cold. They walked at a snails pace through the thick snow, holding onto their clothing tightly.
"Well this sucks!" Nick shouted, he had been physically tied down to Steven in case he just blow away in the wind.
"What!" Spectra shouted.
"I think he says this sucks!" Rarity replied from somewhere nearby.
"He thinks these a duck?" Steven shouted.
"Duck!" Fluttershy asked.
"Fluttershy? Where are you?" Twilight shouted.
"Who is Butter cry?" Spectra asked.
"Everypony. Just move forward! Find a cave!" Twilight shouted.
"Okay. Where would a cave be?" Spectra replied.
"Dunno. Just keep moving." Shadow answered.
"Does anypony know where Dari is?" Applejack asked, the group were suddenly pushed back slightly as a gush of wind blew.
"Haven't seen her since we left the cave, I haven't seen fuck all since then!" Spectra shouted.
"What time is it? How long have we been at this?" Nick asked.
"Who knows, but we have to keep moving!" Dari suddenly shouted.
"Dari! How much further?" Spectra asked.
"I just said I don't know. The storm isn't normally this bad." She replied.
"Fuck!" Rainbow shouted.
"Rainbow?" Spectra replied.
"I think I found someone!" Rainbow shouted. "Yeah. There is a door, I am opening it." She added, out of the snow the outline of a tall building could be seen. Spectra began to walk toward it and called for everypony to follow. He rushed inside to find a very cold Rainbow already starting a fire with the tools she had in her saddle. Soon everypony began to drift inside, with some pushing even Steven managed to get in this rather large building. Rarity was the last in and closed the doors behind her, the blizzard outside dying down.
"Well. Now what?" Nick asked, warming himself up with his arms out. Everypony had curcled up near the fire and were near enough ready to sleep.
"We rest I hope." Rarity grunted.
"No. The fire might go out and we would freeze. A few can rest whilst overs of us go looking for the Heart. I would rather not be here longer than we should." Dari muttered.
"So we are in Old Equestria now?" Spectra asked.
"Of course. We just came in the wrong way, if we head east we should find the Heart." Dari replied, Spectra nodded and stood up.
"Okay then. I will go out, Crystal, Dari, Nick with me." Spectra declared.
"But I don't wanna go outside." Nick grunted.
"I come with you." Rainbow muttered.
"But." Spectra began.
"I am coming." Rainbow said.
"Fine. No use arguing. Nick stay here, lets move out." Spectra said, they walked to the doors, only to see them blue and cold, they had frozen shut.
"Fuck." Spectra muttered.
"Well now what!" Nick shouted.
"We unfreeze it smart ass." Steven replied. Rarity and Twilight stood up.
"Fine. Lets use some heat spell Twilight." Rarity muttered and the two began to cast spells on the door works. Everypony sat watching in silence. Only a strange alien noise filled the silence. A purple portal was beginning to form in the corner of the room. Everypony grabbed up weapons and prepared for battle.
"Now what?" Spectra shouted. The portal expanded then a pony popped out and the portal closed.
The figure sat still, not moving, smoke arose from his body and no detail could be made out from him.
"Hello? Are you hurt?" Nick asked, walking toward the pony.
"My head. Where. Where am I?" A very familiar voice said, the pony stood up and walked toward them. Barely a Cutie Mark they knew only to well, a dark cyan colour skin and a mix of red and blue hair. Two red eyes and a pair of messy wings. There was a piece of iron on one side of his body and he had a limp in his left leg.
"You. You feel." Rainbow muttered. There, in front of them, against all logic and odds. Stood Sir Bright Haze, very much alive.
"You asshole!" Nick shouted. Haze looked confused.
"Nick?" He asked.
"Yeah. Don't you ever fucking die on me again!" Nick shouted.
"But Nick, I am not dead. You were the one who died!" Haze shouted.
"What?" Nick asked. Haze noticed Heart Breaker standing up watching his best friend.
"I am sorry. I don't believe we have meant. Bright Haze is the name. Yours?" Haze asked, putting a hoof out.
"Excuse me." Heart Breaker replied, walking off. Spectra, Nick and Rainbow followed.
"What the hell was that?" Rainbow asked.
"He isn't our Haze." Heart Breaker muttered.
"Changeling?" Nick asked.
"No. At least I don't think so. He came through a portal yes, the same this Demon apparently came through." Heart Breaker began, everypony nodded. "Well those are portals to different dimensions in the Multiverse, Celestia explained this to me before we left. So there are an infinity amount of Universes with an infinity of Haze's. The pony anyway. So this Haze we now have before us, is just a pony sucked in from another Equestria to here as the Mo'ka destroy the Multiverse. He may have experienced roughly the same thing as old Haze, but differences may and will have differed in his life. Since I am human and brought to this dimension years ago. There is only one Heart Breaker, me. But this Haze will be the tiny piece of Multiverse that was created when Celestia altered his memories. This Haze may have even lead a completely different life after the Changeling war than of the one we know, knew. As he said, he has seen you die Nick." Heart Breaker explained.
"Of course. Why not." Spectra replied not taking any of that in.
"He is a different Haze." Heart Breaker muttered.
"Oh okay. Now wasn't that easy for everypony?" Spectra replied. The group walked back to Haze.
"Now Haze. You are not of this universe and shouldn't be here." Heart Breaker said.
"I know that. But why am I here?" He asked.
"There is an enemy. One our Haze, another you died fighting against. They have began to pull all the universes together to destroy them, and the after math of the universes getting closer creates this, portal thing. It picks random things from random universes and brings them here, since the enemy, the Mo'ka are most pissed at us." Heart Breaker explained.
"I see. Well if I am here, mind explaining why you are all here." Haze asked.
"We are finding a magical Heart that can restart the magic in Equestria." Dari muttered.
"Alrighty then. Can I join you?" Haze asked.
"Of course." Spectra replied.
"We may even let the story go first person to you again." Pinkie declared. Everypony paused but otherwise ignored it.
"Ok. So what is the plan?" Haze asked.
"We open those frozen doors and find the Heart and bring it home." Dari replied.
"Okay, seems fair enough."
"Haze. What was the last thing you remember?" Heart Breaker asked.
"I still haven't caught your name."
"Its Heart Breaker, me and the Haze of this world were best friends. I was his best stallion at his wedding."
"He was married?"
"Yeah, to Derpy Hooves, or Haze."
"I see. Well the last thing I remember was going to the Crystal Empire and stopping their king."
"With who?"
"Everypony in this room, except that tall creature over there and you Heart Breaker."
"Even Dari?"
"Of course, why?"
"She died in our world, not to long ago, about two years just about."
"Ah. Well the only people of this group to die has been Nick and Sol."
"Sol?"
"Yeah, tall black unicorn."
"We have Shadow but no Sol."
"Ah okay. Well that's it."
"I see. What of your adventures, what has happened?"
"Well. Let me see, I woke with no memory of anything outside Canterlot. We were told to go into Changeling land by Luna to kill the Changeling king. We did that, came home. Had a rest for a few months then were sent to burn down the Sky Dweller kingdom and then had to defeat the king in the Crystal Empire. I passed out and awoke here just after we blow the castle up."
"Violent world your in."
"Yeah, horrible place, we were the heroes."
"You mentioned Luna? No Celestia."
"Who?" Haze asked.
"We need to chat more about our two worlds. But for now we have a quest to do." Spectra muttered.
"Indeed." Bright Haze replied.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Nearly three hours passed of the two unicorns casting spells to unfreeze the door, eventually Steven just broke the doors down and everypony piled out into the blizzard. Everypony had been talking to Haze, swapping notes on both worlds. After each story everypony got more scared of Haze's home, and he got more in awe of this world.
Now they were all out in the snow again walking through Old Equestria, luckily Rarity had brought extra gear and luckier still it fit on Haze. They wondered through the snow, everypony holding onto Steven who followed Dari. The storm was getting stronger by the minute and many of the number thought about turning back and wait for it to die down a bit. But Dari was determined to press on. They needed to find the Heart soon though, or ponies were going to freeze.
"We can't hold on like this forever. Where the fuck is the Heart?" Rainbow shouted.
"Shouldn't be too far now." Was Dari's reply somewhere up ahead.
"You said that half an hour aga." Rainbow shouted.
"Well until we actually get there. I don't know how far away it is. Now shut up Sheldor and lets move on!" Dari shouted. Then silence.
"Sheldor?" Rainbow asked.
"Nevermind. Can we just keep moving. This place brings up bad memories." Dari muttered, no pony hearing. Nevertheless, the walk was continued in utter silence. Except the howling wind. They walked on for another hour, or so it felt. Until finally, they arrived. There was a tall, much larger than the last building standing out of the snow, the huge metal doors stood tall and proud, as if ponies still tended to them to make sure they wouldn't rust. The group trotted inside, for Twilight to start another fire to keep warm. Then promptly stopped and looked to the end of the room. There stood a huge stone ball, with blue veins running across it, glowing warmingly.
"Is that it?" Nick asked, stunned. There was a low hum coming off the ball as if to sound like something was sleeping.
"Yes. The Heart of Old Equestria. It holds unlimited magic power and can restart Equestria's magic. This is the thing that will save us and bring us that much closer to destroying the Mo'ka." Dari replied.
"Well I have been outside and trust me." Nick started. "It wasn't fucking worth it."
"Come on. We need to get this strapped to Steven." Spectra replied smiling.
"What?" Steven asked.
"Well there is no way in tartarous any of us will be able to carry that. So since you are the biggest, would you carry it?" Spectra asked. The Serpent nodded and Spectra, Haze and Rainbow began walking toward the Heart of Old Equestria.
"Ready?" Spectra asked.
"Of course." Haze replied. But the moment they touched the Stone, a bright blue light exploded from it and knocked the three ponies back. Part of the ceiling began to fall and snow drifted in. The storm began to find it's way into the building.
The light cleared, the Heart was still in one piece but Spectra, Rainbow and Haze were glowing blue.
"Is that how you become a Siren?" Heart Breaker asked.
"No. I would've needed to perform a spell, to control the magic. This was just a random burst. I have no idea what this could mean." Dari replied, confused.
"Shit." Nick muttered.
"Shit indeed." Dari replied. The trio were on the ground. Still.
Rainbow got up first. Her mane had changed, a more block, beautiful scene. The colours were brighter and the mane longer. Her skin tone was also brighter, any evidence of scars from battle were gone.
"I feel. Alive." Rainbow muttered and began to fly, her wings had more, longer feathers and her tail was neat and tidy. Spectra then stood. He had been completely brightened up also. His red eyes were, however less red and the white in his cutie mark had turned red. He smiled.
"You have to try this thing." He said and began to fly around with his wife. Haze didn't move, the light turning into a small trail of smoke coming off him. A piece of iron could be seen with raw flesh surrounding it. Haze was a mess, not like the others. He didn't move at all.
"Oh Gods." Heart Breaker muttered.
Dari began to glow slightly, the Heart did too. "He is alive. Barely." Dari muttered. Some evidence of a stray decay shot could be seen on his leg and the Cutie mark was near on blackened over by burns. Finally, Haze moved.
"But, he wasn't shot." Spectra muttered, floating down to see his friend, moving and growing slowly.
"Dee." Haze muttered.
"That isn't Haze, well not the one who came through the portal." Dari muttered.
"Shit." Nock grunted. Figuring it out.
"Dee!" Haze shouted and rolled over, one eye was his normal red colour, the other was pure white.
"I can't see. Where am I? Derpy! Tage!" Haze shouted. Everypony stood still, stood silent.
"Haze?" Heart Breaker asked. The smoking pony looked toward Heart Breaker, began to crawl toward him.
"Heart Breaker? Where are you? Where am I? Where is my wife?" Haze began to question, asking the same question over and over 'where was Dee'. This pony was lost and broken. In so much pain, he was raw and bloody. This was so wrong.
What should they do? What could they do? This was the Haze who they knew, this is the Haze they fought with. This is the Haze, who should be dead. This, this crawling pile of smoking pony, was a stallion who had lost everything.
Sir Bright Haze. Had come home.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
The smoking figure of Bright Haze lay, clawing at anything he could reach, looking around with his white eye, a thin blood trail followed the dying pony where ever he moved, he kept calling for Spectra and Derpy, for Heart Breaker and Rainbow, for somepony to help.
"Haze, you died." Heart Breaker muttered.
"Heart. Help me. It hurts, it hurts so much. Where is Derpy?" Haze asked. Heart Breaker looked to the figure and began to weep. It was a sight no pony here would ever forget. Twilight began casting a spell to heal him, he screamed out as the magic touched him and Twilight stopped the spell.
"What's wrong?" Spectra asked. "Save him!" He shouted. Twilight looked down.
"I-I can't."
"What!" Spectra shouted again. Rainbow tried to calm him but his eyes were going red.
"Didn't you hear that scream. I tried to heal, to help, but he got even more hurt, this has only happened once in Equestria's history, but I believe he is allergic to magic, and spell. Even a simple heal spell could kill him."
"So you mean he is going to bleed out crawling until he dies of immense pain?" Spectra asked, Twilight nodded. Dari stepped forward, the Heart began to glow and so did the Siren. Her wings began to shine and she began to let out magic trails from each feather on her wings.
"Stand back, this is going to hurt. A lot." Dari said, glowing blue and purple.
"Who?" Steven asked, stepping back.
"Me. Now please, stand far back and do NOT for ANY reason stop me from the casting, it could kill us both." Dari replied, then turned to Haze. She let the trails cover Haze, who stopped moving and lay still. Dari began to wrap magic around Haze and after he was covered in the purple magic, the Pegasus began to scream. Loudly. Twilight stepped forward and Spectra grabbed her and pulled her back.
"Dari just said not to interrupt." Spectra muttered.
"But she is in pain."
"So is Haze, she can fix him. Anyway the Heart is helping her." Spectra pointed out, it was true, the stone Heart was letting off its own trail of magic, some to Haze and most to Dari, presumably to keep her full of magic for whatever spell she was casting.
"But he remembers Dee, how can we break the news she died and for whatever reason he is alive again?" Spectra asked.
"I will tell him." Heart Breaker replied.
"Who is that again?" Crystal asked.
"A friend." Spectra replied, then added. "The one who stopped your kind killing us all."
"Spectra." Rainbow muttered, the Pegasus colt just smiled. Dari screamed again, the magic had now lifted Haze into the air and was swarming over him. Dari muttered something and then the spell ended, the magic cut out, Haze fell to the ground, Dari passed out and then. The Heart let out an explosion of magic, making the world go white for a while. Spectra stood up first, blinded by the light that had appeared. It was pure white and was blocking any sight of Dari, Haze or the Heart. Spectra called out to Dari or Haze, neither replied.
"Shit!" He shouted, moving forward, then was blasted back by some shield conjured up by the white light. "Haze!" Spectra shouted.
"It is King-Sir Bright Haze, Hero of Equestria and damn fine friend, to you!" The voice of Haze replied.
"Haze?" Spectra asked.
"What Spectra?" The bright light slowly disappeared to show a very much alive Bright Haze, wings glowing white standing tall in front of the Heart. Dari stood next to him, wingless.
"Dari. What happened to you wings?" Spectra asked.
"I gave them up, along with my Siren powers, I gave my magic in healing Haze and the Heart decided it would make Haze here, a Siren."
"Fuck me." Haze muttered, smiling. Dari walked forward to Heart Breaker.
"I have altered his memory slightly too, not forgetting Derpy, but so she died much more long ago, he has been dead nearly five years, agreed?" Dari asked.
"Good plan, but it might not work. But I will keep it up as long as I can. What has he missed?" Heart Breaker asked.
"Nothing. It has just been five years more than it should have been. He never had a kid though, there was no way I could stop him grieving for Tage. Its cruel but I saw him killing himself." Dari replied.
"I see, how did you know?"
"I was in his mind healing him, fighting Death and Corruption to stop him dying. I was in so much pain, I saw everything that has ever come into his mind, something no pony should do. But he is alive, and Realitively happy. Until he meets the Mo'ka. Then he will rage more than Red does." Dari muttered, nodding to Spectra who, alike everypony else, but Crystal, were standing around Haze.
"I see. Well go tell everypony else, I will distract him." Heart Breaker replied. Dari nodded and walked away, Heart Breaker gestured to Haze and he walked over, everypony then gathered round Dari.
"Well then Haze. Welcome back to the living, again. Been a while." Heart Breaker muttered, smilng his friend was back.
"Aye. Just a little, what is that creature standing over there?" Haze asked pointing to Crystal.
"Its a human, they invaded Equestria, you flow up and closed the portal between here and their world. He is a survivor, a friendly, we hope." Heart Breaker replied.
"Ah of course. Yeah." Haze muttered staring at Crystal. "Well, what have I missed?"
"Nothing much, we have been at peace since the Human invasion, we made clean up teams that looked through Equestria to hunt down lost humans, we developed gun weaponry, just improvised types of the human Decay gun, like a crossbow saddle, but with an awesome gun on it. There is apparently a Demon somewhere in Equestria which we can't deal with right now and we are bringing this Heart back to Canterlot to restart the magic of Equestria, we are suck in a time space between day and night. Have been for months." Heart Breaker replied. "I will fill in any other gaps, the most important thing is that these Mo'ka bastards, are not dead. So we are going to war with them." Heart Breaker added.
"A war against the enemy that killed me. Lets go then."
"Aye, let's." Heart Breaker muttered, filled with sorrow for his resurrect friend.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
The storm was still blazing outside, they had tied the Heart to Steven and left the building. Now was their long trip back home. To restart Equestria's magic and the like. Haze was walking ahead, now wearing snow gear again and holding a gun saddle Spectra had quickly taught him to use, his wings still glowing white. Heart Breaker, Spectra and Dari walked behind. Slowly being followed by everything else that lagged behind.
"How long will his wings be like that?" Spectra asked.
"I don't know, when I became a Siren I was glowing for two weeks, but my friend Sheldor." Dari replied, pausing at the memory. Then shaking her head making her mane fly about. "He was glowing for about an hour." Dari finished.
"I see, you know this is the second time you have given up part of yourself." Spectra muttered.
"Yep. But there is a big difference in getting rid of my magic to save Haze, and blowing up a wall and dying." Dari replied.
"Yeah well, it took us months to rebuild that." Heart Breaker grunted.
"Well you would've gotten into Canterlot without me." Dari replied winking.
"And whilst you were all besieging Canterlot, I was defending Cloudsdale." Spectra smiled smugly.
"Yes you have recalled to us numerous times about how you fought against their army." Heart Breaker laughed.
"Well it was a bloody and glorious fight." Spectra replied.
"We had the Bloody Skulls." Heart Breaker muttered.
"Ah, the famed mercs of Equestria." Spectra began.
"Demon!" Somepony shouted, a huge creature soon appeared from the snow and tackled Rarity. Who was flung into the air screaming, from what could be seen it was smaller than the red one they had seen on that recorded spell. And this was black and misshapen, not like the red one. So were there two? Three? More?
Haze turned and fired his gun at the creature, to no effect. The creature then roared as Twilight began to shoot spells at it. The thing began to charge at Haze, who kept shooting frantically. Crystal was also shooting, Rarity got up from the snow and also sent barrages at the thing.
"Haze! Use some damn magic!" Dari shouted, then charged at the creature which pushed her aside then continued to charge. Spectra roared and charged as Red, kicking the thing which caused it to stumble a bit, some black liquid spilled out onto the snow, making it melt and burn the ground underneath.
"Don't let the blood touch you Spectra. It's like acid!" Dari shouted, trying to get up. Haze suddenly began to glow, as did the Heart. It sent a trail out to Haze who smiled, eyes burning white fire. He looked straight at the demon.
"Spectra, duck." Haze said, he sounded like he had two voices, his own, and another, a different one, more deep and old. Spectra jumped out of the demons reach just as a wave of white energy shot out of Haze, hitting the demon which screamed out at began to smoke, more blood shot out, burning the ground. The creature ran at Haze who sent another wave, and kept repeating. Wave after wave of, pure, magic. Causing the demon to scream and bleed. It began to slow its pace, not by choice. Haze didn't stop. The sound of thunder came out of him after every wave. Black blood shot everywhere, until finally. The creature fell. It stopped moving. Haze stood still, panting slightly but looked up to see smoke rising from the Demon's body. The Heart stopped glowing and so did Haze's wings, his eyes stopped glowing to show one red eye, and one blind white eye.
"Dari, his eye." Spectra muttered.
"I guess the Heart couldn't or didn't fix that." Dari replied, staring casually at it. Haze smiled and spat on the body, more smoke steamed up and everypony began to move on. Cold and in the mist of a blizzard, it would be a long while before home.
"How did you do that Haze?" Twilight asked.
"No idea. But I am glad Siren magic is on our side." Haze replied. Heart Breaker over heard this.
"Ah yes, Dari. About those Siren powers?" The alicorn asked.
"It might work. Should we try?" Dari relied. Heart Breaker nodded. Dari went to Haze and gave him instructions. He them began to glow white again. The Heart did also and after a brief pause. Stopped being in a white aura, and turned a dark red. The trails rushed to Heart Breaker and surrounded him. But suddenly cut off completely, Haze falling to his forelegs.
"What happened?" Heart Breaker asked.
"That has never happened before, let alone it turning red, but cutting off its power like that? We need to get home, we could empty out the resources of the Heart." Dari muttered.
"But you said it had unlimited magic." Haze said.
"Yeah I did, but the Heart has never gone red before in all of Magic history. Twi would vow for me." Dari replied.
"I haven't read much on the Heart personally but from what I have read it has never done such a thing." Twilight muttered.
"Then we must get back." Haze replied.
"Well fuck the magic, I want to get out of this damned snow.' Nick muttered. They moved on again, the wind howling behind them.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Canterlot, 3 days later.
Ponies were running around everywhere, the whole city was in chaos. The walls and streets were covered in soldiers and gunfire and fighting could be hear for miles. Earlier that day a huge force of these, demons, had appeared from the Everfree and had begun to attack the city. Thankfully they were fairly weak, from what had been previously seen and would fall rather quickly to spell or gun. But mage unicorns were becoming spent and the horde of black and red just kept coming. Celestia, Luna and that orange pony Slayer stood watching as the demons began to swarm around the walls. They wouldn't hold much longer and needed a miracle to break this siege. Slayer gulped down a breath and tightened his grip on his hammer and walked forward. Luna looked to Celestia who nodded. Then the two princesses began to move forward behind Slayer. The gates were weakening and ponies stood ready for a fight. Crossbow ponies stood ready, guarded by fresh mages and gun holders. The three ponies walked through the army of Equestria, who paused and then nodded to each other. They began to form ranks behind the pony and the princesses. Gunfire still rang out as more and more ponies lined up.
"aptain. A spear if you will be so kind." Celestia muttered to a pony. He nodded and handed the god princess a spear. The princess nodded. Luna also looked to the pony and with her blue magic lifted up a spear and held it with magic. The gates were banging more loudly. The ponies holding the gates looked to the two princesses and quickly galloped back to the force behind them. The gate banged once more before bursting open and sending pieces of wood and metal everywhere. Slayer stopped, as did everypony else. Smoke was forming over the gate way and guns aimed downwards ready.
"Shall we sister?" Luna asked, staring straight ahead.
"After you." Celestia replied. Slayer smiled and lifted his hammer in one hoof, he charged forward. So did everypony else, screaming out a war cry or something that the soldiers conjured up. The smoke began to clear and the Demon forces began to charge as well. Screeching out horrible cries that would send shivers down a pony. The black beams of the guns fired tearing into a few of the demon numbers, the Decay quickly disintegrated many of the number but still they charged. Slayer looked to his sides, seeing the two spears of the princesses leaning down.
"For Equestria." Slayer muttered before swinging his hammer upwards onto a black disfigured demon. The two forces collided and all chaos broke out. Slayer, Luna and Celestia cut their way through the forces of the demons and created a three pony circle. Slayer swung out his hammer wildly, bashing away the demons as the liquid of their blood spilled everywhere. A huge fireball shot over the ponies heads and crashed into some more of the demon forces. Fire began to consume them and they died burning, acid blood spilling everywhere. They didn't even scream.
"Haven't been in a fight like this in centuries. Before Nightmare Moon." Luna shouted to Celestia.
"Probably before Mother left." Celestia muttered.
"Yes. Queen Faust left. I remember. We fought together in the War of the first Changelings." Luna replied smiling.
"I have been in wars before you were born sister." Celestia said. Looking at the fight and hearing the explosions and shouts. Dispute this heroic charge and rallying everypony. They still weren't going to win this fight.
"We are not going to win this my princesses!" Slayer suddenly shouted.
"I can see that, what do we do?" Celestia replied. Luna avoided this trying to pray, to hope they would actually win this fight for once. Rather than rely on somepony else coming to aid. They were always outnumbered and outarmed.
"We must fallback deeper into the city. Set up mines and turrets." Slayer replied. Then paused. "Oh right. We must fallback deeper into the city. Try to set up chock points against this foul army." He fixed what he had said seeing as this Universe didn't have the technology he so desired.
"Sister. If you would be so bold." Luna said, Celestia nodded.
"Fallback! Fallback into the city. Archers cover the retreat." Tia shouted then the three ponies began to fallback back through the broken gates and into the city itself, watching Decay fire swarm over them.
As the three ponies ran through the houses, abandoned as everypony had rushed of to the castle a strange noise sounded. Celestia stopped in her tracks. A purple swirl in the space above them slowly appeared.
"Brace for a fight." Celestia muttered. Luna brought down her almost burning spear down. Slayer gripped his hammer. There was a roar coming from the portal, something a human would make. Some sort of war cry. Not in the language the invaders had used, something, different. Suddenly the figure jumped out of the swirling void. He was big, certainly a human. Had no hair on his head as most humans had, he had stubby fingers in a blue coat and trousers. A black fingerless glove on one hand and a small layer of grey hair on his chin. He seemed to be gripping some sort of incredibly big gun. Long black barrel then was spinning, slowing down slightly with a hint of smoke coming off. The man was rather big for what Celestia had seen from other humans and was a lot taller too.
"Are you a friend. Or a foe?" Celestia asked slowly.
"Are you little pony?" The man asked. He had a strange accent on him, not sounding at all like the other humans.
"Yes. I am Princess Celestia, co ruler of the relatively peaceful race of ponies. We mean you no harm, at the moment evil things, demons are invading and we need help. I will explain the rest later. Will you help us?" Celestia asked.
"Da. Princess Celestia you say? Who are you and you?" The big man asked. Pointing his guns at Luna and Slayer.
"I am Princess Luna. Co ruler of this land. Celestia's sister."
"Amd I am Slayer. A foreigner to these lands, much like yourself. Who would you be?" Slayer asked. As he did three black creatures came into view and looked upon the sight of the three ponies and man. They stood still for a minute, debating their options.
"I." The man began then stepped in front of the ponies staring at the Demons, who hissed at the man. "I am Heavy Weapons guy. And this." The man lifted his gun slightly. "Is my weapon." With that the man began to fire upon the three Demons, who were literally torn up but gunfire. Being ripped apart by this mans gun.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Bright Haze and the others could see Canterlot up ahead. They began to cheer knowing that they had succeeded in their quest and were now home, ready to restart Equestria's magic and start the war with the Mo'ka. They trotted onwards at a leisurely pace toward the capital. Steven had the Heart on his back still and everypony was spread out. Haze stood near the back with Twilight Sparkle. He had had her looking at his white eye but she couldn't do anything. Dari had said it was the Heart's doing. Not any normal magic.
"We are home Haze." Twilight said suddenly. Spectra, who was just ahead turned his head and smiled.
"Yeah. Canterlot." Bright Haze muttered in a reply. He smiled and nodded slightly.
"We brought you home once more old friend." Spectra said from ahead.
"Well being brought back from the dead twice now maybe I shouldn't fear death as much." Haze replied.
"Dont say things like that Haze. We lost a lot of good ponies that day." Spectra muttered, thinking of the Rift and of Haze and Derpy. "Due to humanity." The pony added, glaring at Crystal.
"I forget how many trees this world has." The Human muttered from the side, apparently ignoring the Pegasus.
"What was that Crystal?" Haze asked, not hearing the human.
"I said. Equestria has an awful lot of trees compared to Earth." Crystal replied.
"What do you mean by that. Equestria isn't much of a very forested place. How many trees does Earth have? Do you count them?" Twilight put in.
"We destroyed our trees and much of the other life on our planet, planets. I could probably count the amount of trees we have left."
"So, once you have counted to eight. What do you do for the rest of the day on Earth?" Bright Haze asked.
"Cut one down so it is easier tomorrow." Crystal replied quickly. Haze burst out laughing but the group continued to walk on. Rather than lose time in stopping so close.
The group continued on for some time, slowly gaining more land and getting closer and closer to Canterlot. There seemed to be no pony around and the sky was rather empty of Pegasi. This fact alone was worrying as everypony gathered speed to get to Canterlot. Spectra flapped his wings and began to give a run at full gallop to get to Canterlot.
"Nononononono." He cursed, everypony else soon gave chase, there was absolutely no pony around. As the group neared the city they could see burns on the ground and smoke trails from the acid blood of the demons. Pieces of demon could be seen scattered everywhere and the gates of Canterlot could be seen, broken and destroyed. Dead ponies lined the ground closer to the city. Demon blood lay everywhere, many of these faces were black and burned, they would have fallen by acid, no claw of the demon. No wonder no pony had reclaimed them. If anypony were left that is. The group slowly crept into Canterlot. Dead lay everywhere. Crystal knelt down suddenly and grabbed up a gun. Holding two now he ran quickly to catch up. Everypony walked in silence. The city was completely empty, not a single soul. The group stopped, staring onto the ruins. Homes were burned and empty. Smoke filled the sky and everypony was dead.
"Now. Now what?" Nick suddenly grunted. Gulping at the scene.
"I don't know Nick. I really don't." Bright Haze replied. A tear fell from his good eye. The blind eye just, stayed.
"Are they all dead?" Fluttershy squeaked.
"I think so Flutters. I think so." Bright Haze replied. The yellow mare squeaked in fear and let of a shot with her gun. The decay shot went into some building which began to burn and the whole wall soon fell.
"Well if they didn't know we were here, they do now." Spectra grunted, lifting his own gun.
"They?" Fluttershy asked. There was a hiss from an alley way.
"Demons!" Spectra shouted as the black figures jumped out of the ertswhile empty alley ways. Everypony opened fire, they were soon surprised at how quickly the things died. Almost instantly bursting apart spraying their acid blood about. Crystal stood forward and shot his twin guns at the oncoming demons. There was a rather loud explosion come from the castle and everypony looked to it.
"Survivors?" Dari asked.
"Most likely. We gotta move!" Haze replied. Then began to gallop through the gathering horde, shooting as he went. Everypony soon followed, letting off their own barrages of gunfire. Shadow stopped in his tracks.
"Come on!" Spectra shouted. The black pony stayed.
"Just go! I will hold them off. Go!" Shadow shouted, firing. Black winged creatures began to rise up, attacking from the sky. Spectra shot a few but they kept coming.
"Shadow come on!" Spectra shouted.
"Spectra, I have to do this. I can be at peace then." Shadow replied.
"No!" Spectra replied. His eyes going red. The Pegasus charged at his friend and hit him round the face with his gun. Knocking him down, knocked out cold. Spectra shot a few more rounds and lifted Shadow onto his back and ran forward to catch up to the others, who had formed a circle in the burned out ruined market.
"The bastards can fly?" Rainbow shouting, taking one down with a shot.
"Apparently so. Have we got any spells yet?" Bright Haze shouted. His eyes burning white. Every shot of his that hit a demon the creature set alight, screaming.
"I have a shield. Might help our air problem." Twilight shouted back.
"Teach it to Rarity then put the damn thing up." Haze replied. Shooting constantly.
"I can't just TEACH magic Haze. There needs to be years of training and-"
"Put the damn shield up. Rarity lend her magic!" Haze ordered, Twilight nodded and her horn pulsates. A small bubble of purple magic soon covered the group. The Heart was giving off a glow again sending magic to Twilight, Rarity and Haze.
"Fire going out." Bright Haze said, shooting a huge fireball out of his forehead were a white horn of magic had appeared. Pulsating brown magic. The fire shot out hitting the hordes. As the shield completed the flying things began to disintegrate as soon as they touched the shield. Along with the flightless ones. The demons stopped their attack, and just completely surrounded the shield instead.
"We are safe. For now." Steven muttered.
"Agreed. But how are we to get to the castle in all this?" Spectra asked.
"Hmm. Twi. Can you keep the shield up whilst moving?" Dari asked.
"It is possible. But I would need complete focus. And I can't get that out there." Twilight replied, pointing a hoof at the black mass of demon.
"What if we tied you down. So you wouldn't have to move, you would just be in utter stillness keeping the spell up?" Dari asked. Everypony saw where this was going.
"Yeah but I would need a constant flow of mana, and for me to place the shield down where we are going, not where we are, so everypony will have to run to stay in the shield."
"That's okay. Just climb onto the Heart. Somepony tie her down. Tell me when you are ready." Dari muttered. Spectra helped Twilight onto Steven and tied her down so we wouldn't have to move. She nodded and her horn began to glow.
"To the castle right?" Twilight asked. Dari nodded and readied for a gallop. "I will illuminate the way I am going." Twilight added, then after a brief pause, a yellow line appeared from Steven and moved forward, continuing through the shield and out onto the demon filled street. The creatures moved to either side of it to stay safe. The line went straight through the city toward the castle.
"Ready?" Twilight asked. Her eyes now glowing purple, the Heart gave of a purple colour of magical trails to the unicorn. Everypony nodded and Twilight released the shield. Everypony ran, shooting.
The plan was working. The shield would be down for about a second, then back up about a metre away. Everypony had just kept shooting and running. They were close to the castle and the doors were closed and apparently locked. Twilight brought everypony to the door and opened small holes in the shield for ponies to shot out. She looked down to Haze who was still shooting.
"I am going to teleport you inside. Take Spectra with you. Open the doors for us." Twilight said. Bright Haze nodded. Then saw the world turn white for a second. The next moment. He was face to face with Celestia. Him and Spectra were inside the main lobby for the castle and could now see the survivors of the demon battle. Hundreds of ponies, soldiers and civi alike stood or sat around the huge room. There were probably ponies everywhere around the castle. But the main army force, well surviving force was in the main room. Spells were in place around the doors and windows. Making it near on impossible to break into. Everypony stood and aimed weapons.
"Hold on! We are on your side." Spectra shouted.
"Stand down." Celestia muttered, the ponies obliged.
"Well it is good to see you princess. We have the Heart. Yes everypony is okay. Yes Haze is back from the dead. Again. Yes we have a human with us. Yes it is a long story and no. I don't wanna talk about it whilst everypony is outside. So could we get that door open." Spectra said quickly. Celestia smiled and nodded. Her horn began to glow and the double doors soon opened, the soldiers began to fire at the demons as Twilight and the others made it inside. The doors closed.
"So. Spectra. Tell me what happened." Celestia muttered.
"If you tell me." Spectra replied winking. A tall large human appeared holding a rather large scary gun.
"Da. I wish to know what happen to little pony." The man grunted. Smiling.
"Oh boy." Spectra mumbled and began the story of everything that happened since they left Canterlot. Then Celestia started her story.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Celestia stood tall surrounded by the strong and wounded of Canterlot. Looking at the group of heroes who had just fought through the city to reach her and restart magic in Equestria. But now the reset was more important than just starting this war with the Mo'ka, if they got magic back. More than just some offensive spells of fire to burn some demons. If magic can come back. Pony mages can shield the fighters and keep demons away. It would keep more ponies safe and take more of the enemy out than just open conflict. Somepony suddenly screamed out. Celestia looked up to see an armoured and armed human walk in. Guards raised weapons and aimed. The human replied in a mirror of the ponies. Celestia prepared a spell, as weak as it may be due to the little magic remaining in Equestria, but any spell would at least cripple the human. Maybe not kill him. Rainbow Dash rushed in still shooting, being the last one in the doors closed tight and locked under the dimming magic. The demons would break in soon. The rainbow Pegasus saw what was happening and jumped in front of the human. Raising her own gun to the ponies. Celestia was shocked.
"Wait. Crystal is a friendly." Rainbow pleaded. The guards looked to Celestia confused.
"What do you mean? How can this. Human be friendly?" Celestia asked. Looking at the scrawny man before her. He was certainly no Heavy Weapons Guy. Who was wondering around the castle with Luna and Slayer making sure no demons had found a weak spot in the defenses.
"I chose to join your side. However it took over a year to find you. I was bloody and broken and your student, and her friend. Saved me from death. I am on your side and have always hated what humans did to you before that battle." Crystal replied.
"What do you mean; 'before the battle?'" Celestia asked, tilting her head side wards.
"For you, it would only be what, three, four years. But for us, humans it has been generations. History tells in how Equestria and Earth almost collided. But the two planets stopped. Just before entering each others dimensions, from some saviour on your side. But human military has always found this to be a threat. Apparently after that day we understood that not only were we not alone in the universe. But there are many universes. So we developed theories on the Multiverse. For centuries we tried to find ways in universe jumping like our worlds once had. But could never find the technology. We were about to give up on finding life in the Multiverse. But we were so fixated mainly on finding a planet very Terran like. Your planet. We were so close to giving up. That was when our tech showed signs of a portal being opened. The worlds Commander-In-Chief suddenly declared war on whatever was on the other side of the portal construction began on huge war ships. We boomed in military domination. But since the world was finally at peace. We had nothing to fight. Until the portal opened and Equestria was found. You see Princess. Humanity has been planning Equestria's invasion since our planets last came near each other. That day shaped our future. And present. We were hell bent on finding life and discovering the secrets of the Multiverse. We forgot about any peace with new life. If we had found any other planet with life it would be gone. You see, we forgot about things like love and tolerance. And if us as a race were prepared to not only outnumber, outgun but have an open conflict with no warning or talks. That we were prepared to shot a little filly in the street, then shot a grieving mother, cripple her from flight and try to kill the father after he flow her away. Then I didn't want to be in that race.
"So you see Celestia. I am not a human. I am a man, the humans are evil. Manipulated and cruel. I am Crystal." Crystal replied to the princess. She wiped a tear away and stared at the human. Who nodded and walked away, dropping the guns. He sat down in the corner. Everypony in the room lowered their weapons.
During Crystals talk with Celestia everypony had untied Twilight and the Heart. Brought the stone device into the centre of the room and Shadow had woken up and was now shouting at Spectra. Everypony except those two were staring at the heart intently.
"So. How we going to get the Heart to. Ya know. Go?" Nick asked. Staring at the thing with his black lines which were his arms crossed over each other.
"Well Dari is the only one who would know. But she can't do it because Haze is the damn Siren now." Starburst grunted.
"I do know yes. How to teach Haze will be another matter. Without magic I literally have no input in how his magic works." Dari agreed.
"Well it is the Hearts fault we now have a mentally deformed Siren." Heart Breaker joked.
"Hey." Haze grunted.
"Sorry, but you understand about as much of Siren Magic as you do in knowing how to stay fucking dead." Heart Breaker replied. Winking. Haze just rolled his eyes.
"Dari!" Celestia called in a rather sing-song tune. The ex-Siren turned to see Celestia with Treeborn and Spectra's filly and colt. Rainbow instantly ran other and Dari got up to go see her magic born daughter.
"Now Rainbow, Dari. I have a few questions." Celestia muttered once the two mares were away from the others.
"Yes Princess." Dari replied. Smiling. Treeborn laughed and noticed Dari's lack of wings.
"Fly?" The filly asked.
"No, no fly. Not for me." Dari replied. Saddened she couldn't fly with her daughter once she knew how.
"Yes,that is one of them. But let's start at the beginning. How the, pardon my human, how the fuck is Haze back." Celestia asked. The swear sliding off her tongue like a bar of soap. Rainbow was shocked at the Princess using such language but she really was the only one who understood the most about swearing. For everypony else it was just how humans talked. How Haze had talked all those years ago. How he still bloody does.
"There was a portal. We received a parallel Haze. One of a dark and cruel Equestria. You were dead and Luna was a stallion, amount other differences. This Haze seemed okay, more aggressive and loud than what we expected but the same. Then we found the Heart. It did something to Haze when we got near it and the parallel one went and we got a bloody, raw living corpse that was our Haze. He was near on blind and completely lost. Only crying out for Dee or whoever spoke. He was crawling around. We debated whether to kill him or not. In mercy. But Dari here cast a powerful spell, aided by the Heart wherein she gave up her Siren powers, along with her wings and gave them to the Heart so it would heal Haze, but in a backlash, it gave the powers to Haze. So Dari lost her wings and Haze was a Siren. However he is still blind in his left eye. You probably saw it was near on pure white." Rainbow explained. Celestia nodded after a moment and looked to Dari who nodded in agreement.
"I see. Well I don't believe I have anymore questions. You can go back now." Celestia smiled.
"But Princess. What happened here?" Rainbow asked. The Princess raised her wings up slightly and looked to the door. The spell holding it shut should be giving of a solid red colour. But instead it was a pale pink colour, and fading. Celestia knew it was weakening when the banging on the doors began. Celestia turned to a guard. Aiming his gun at the door.
"Go find my sister and our guests. Bring them back here. We may need more gun." Celestia ordered. The guard nodded and galloped off. "Well a few days ago a portal opened up and a few demons appeared. We took most out without problem but around five escaped into the forest. Two days ago they returned, but with thousands. Either from similar portals or they had been breeding. We were instantly laid siege to and we held them out as long as we could. Two portals opened in that time for creatures of our side. A parallel pony named Slayer, apparent defender of Equestria and freedom fighter against the Equestrian Defense Force or EDF as he calls them. He has become a reliable fighter and brave soul. A lot like Haze. Then during the siege another portal. A human, he calls himself Heavy or Heavy Weapons Guy. He has some huge gun of some sort that was tearing demons apart in seconds. But even so we were slowly pushed back to the castle, where we have been hiding ever since." Celestia explained.
"But when we first arrived here we heard an explosion. It is why we came here." Rainbow muttered.
"Oh well, using complicated spells in such a low magic environment is deadly. A traitor mage discovered that. He had been talking about joining the demons or the Mo'ka, the 'winning team' as he referred to them as, for some time. But earlier he snapped and tried to blow the building up. But the protective wards not only backfired the spell. But due to its complication in spell castings manner, it failed and he managed to kill himself. Causing a small but loud explosion you heard earlier." Celestia explained. Dari and Rainbow nodded.
"So what is the plan?" Rainbow asked.
"Once my sister, Heavy and Slayer get back we restart Equestria's magic and break this siege." Celestia replied. The two mares nodded and the door banged loudly again from demon assult.
"Well they better hurry." Rainbow muttered, staring at the door. The shield was falling.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
"So how is it we are meant to restart the magic of Equestria?" Bright Haze asked. The demons were breaking in and everypony was running out of time. Princess Luna, a rather large man, presumably Heavy and the orange pony Slayer ran in.
"We have tiny problem." The Heavy said. There was a small explosion heard and there was an echo of demons screaming out. "Okay. We have big problem." Heavy added and readied his gun into the rest of the castle.
"Defensive formations. I want shields up now! Prepare for battle! Get the mares and fillies out of here!" Celestia shouted. More noises were heard as windows smashed and spells gave way.
"Haze with me!" Dari shouted and ran to the Heart. Bright Haze ran to the Heart as gunfire sounded. The Heavy to shout out some war cry as he fired his gun. More windows broke and demons continued to pour in.
"How do I do this?" Haze shouted.
"Us Surens. We get more than just magic. Focus on the Heart Haze. Just look at it and cast. It will guide you." Dari ordered. Bright Haze looked to her and saw a demon grab up a pony and rip it apart. Haze looked at the Heart.
"Okay. Tell me what to do." Haze muttered quietly. He closed his eyes for a second. When he opened them again, they were burning white. Magic trails began to form from him and the Heart, slowly, heading toward each other.
Dari was shooting down demons, she had ran from Haze toward the others as he cast. She bumped into Spectra who turned to look at her.
"We need to encircle Haze. He needs cover." Dari ordered. Spectra looked to Haze and nodded, everypony followed Dari and surrounded Haze. Shooting and fighting. Celestia even ran into the circle closely followed by everypony else. The whole garrison had formed in a circle firing upwards without pause.
"Keep firing!" Celestia shouted. She had her own gun and was taking on the hordes. The Heart began to slowly pulsate and groan loudly as the magic strengthened. More Demons ran in, the doors blow down and two of the red demons with maces charged forward roaring loudly. They had grown wings and had fire following their every step.
"Focus on the Red ones!" Crystal shouted and turned, shooting his two guns toward them. Steven broke away from the line and punched one of the creatures into the ground. The serpent screamed out as black acid blood lashed at his fist. Nick was running around trying to avoid all the acid and fires were beginning to start as the blood started to burn at the wood and cobble. The Heavy seemed to be covered in blood and he throw down his gun and brought out a sandwich which he ate. The blood actually disappeared and he cried out again, getting his gun and firing. Bullets lay all around him along with countless demons. But ponies were dying all around the circle. The second red demon had successfully evadied Steven and had a few ponies dead around it. The mace was even more red with blood and all decay shots were to no effect. Demons were everywhere and the pony circle was slowly getting smaller and smaller. Unicorns could do nothing except watch their unprotected brothers and sisters fall to demon. The horns weren't glowing and those that were would send a tiny bit of concentrated magic and do no harm to the demons what so ever. They needed mage support. Soon.
"We can't keep this up. Too many of us are dying. There is acid everywhere." Twilight shouted. Haze was still standing prone, staring at the Heart as it grow louder sending more magical pulses out. The trails were everywhere but it was still not enough.
"We have to make sure Haze survives." Dari shouted back. Bashing a demon back with the butt of her gun. Fire was everywhere, demons were everywhere and the acid of their blood was dripping down from all around. A pony screamed out as some dropped into his eye and his skull began to burn away. He ran for a second but dropped down, either fainted from pain or dead. The skin was still burning away to show raw bleeding muscle.
"Come on! We need this magic now!" Heart Breaker shouted. He had a bad burn on the side of his face from acid contact but not so bad he would die. Nick suddenly shouted out. His left arm had burned off and the tiny trails of purple magic poured out. Twilight screamed out. Nick being her creation gave a link to her, he died, she was hurt. A lot. Twilight screamed her horn vibrating quickly. The lavender mare fell to her front legs and Celestia ran over.
"I am hit!" Slayer shouted. His ear was burning away and he had various cuts on his body from demon claws. So many were dying every second. There was a huge noise as part of the roof fell in, falling down near the back covering the back door, so the rest of the castle was inaccessible. Hundreds more of the creatures soon dived in toward the unprotected ponies.
"I can't help them. I can't do anything!" Some unicorn shouted and ran out of the circle screaming. She was picked apart by hundreds of demons. The group were completely surrounded and there was no hope of survival.
"Des Ro Cani!" Haze suddenly shouted. Nopony knew what he said but after that. The world went white.
Dari stood up, coughing loudly. Rubble and dust lay everywhere. Ponies were waking up to see there were no demons. A quiet pulse came from the sky. Dari looked up to see a white clear shield formed above everypony, the demons flow on the other side. Not able to get in. The circle the shield protected was free of acid or fire. The survivors stood surrounded in their protected shields. The Heart gave one last pulse of magic making the noise of an explosion, everypony was knocked back and the Heart collapsed onto itself. Magic pouring out into the atmosphere. The demon horde were screaming out at that fact. Twilight blinked a few times and touched her horn with a hoof. She made to cast a spell and the horn began to glow a deep purple colour once more. Magic was back. Haze stood in the centre of everypony eyes burning white and a white horn had appeared on his head. Haze looked to Dari and said something else she didn't understand, white circles formed on the side of her body and her blue wings returned to her. Haze looked to the everypony else and cast, the wounds and burns healed completely.
"I am King Sir Bright Haze. I am the Heart of Old Equestria and the most powerful mage in all the Multiverse. Magic has returned to your world and you may do with what you wish. But I have the burden of the Heart Magic and I alone can control it." Haze declared, he sounded like he had two voices again. He levitated slightly and after a brief pause of floating. The horn vanished and he fell to the ground. Passing out.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Bright Haze awoke slowly. He could hear the groans of demons and the hum of a spell. Everypony had eyes on him, except those with weapons aimed at the horde.
"I am not dead yet." He grunted looking to everypony. "What happened?" He asked.
"You happened Haze. You restarted Equestria's magic. We are safe. Well safer than before." Dari replied smiling.
"Oh alright then. What is the plan?" Haze asked, rubbing his head slowly.
"We recruit. Same plan as before." Celestria replied. "Give me a minute whilst I send the distress signal." Celestia added. Then made her horn glow magic. She shut her eyes and slowly magic began to shot from her horn in waves, shooting out one burst at a time. A strange hum took over the silence as the pace of the bursts quickened in pace. Celestia grunted slightly but continued on. The spell began to slow eventually and the humming decreased. Soon the spell stopped completely. Everypony was staring at Celestia.
"The Mo'ka know what we are planning. They tried to stop me from casting. But I managed to get it through. Now we must wait." The Princess declared. Almost as soon as the princess said this the sound of a portal sounded. A rather small portal soon appeared on the inside of the shield. Then another two quickly appeared. The first vanished and a rather scrawny man with bright purple hair and one blue one green eye appeared. His hair was fuzzy and stuck up and his clothing was of different fabric and colours. He had one leather boot on and on his other foot a black sock and a flip flop on. He had a huge grin on his face.
"Hello." The man said. His voice was squeaky and jumpy. "My name is Professor Cockwhistle. But you can call me Barry." He added. The two other portals expanded quickly. Professor Cockwhistle jumped back as five figures walked through the left portal, and a lone person walked through the left. The lone person was a tall, buff looking creature, it had the features of a human and was covered in head to toe in heavy armour. It wore no helmet however and had a dark green face with two small tusks coming out of his mouth. He had a dark brown cape on and a huge long hammer strapped to his back. The group were all human. One with a bow and sword, in light armour and had pointed ears. There was another man in shiny heavy armour with a long silver sword glowing a dim blue colour. A women in cloth and leather stood covering two children. A young boy and an even younger girl.
"Where the fuck are we now?" The pointed eared man asked. Then noticed the ponies and pulled a strange looking gun out from his back. The armoured man also readied his sword.
"Welcome strangers. You are in the land of Equestria. We are a peaceful race. Despite these dark times and welcome you to our land. We have summoned you here as the Multiverse is in danger." Celestia greeted.
"Well we don't want to be here. We are meant to be on Earth." The pointed eared one said. Lowering his weapon.
"Yes. Times have come wherein we must gather the heroes of the Multiverse against this threat." Celestia replied.
"And what is this threat?" The pointed ear one asked.
"We have already been attacked by them, through the usage of the humans. But we fought back, and survived, with great lose however. Now comes the time where we are ready to invade their own world. I have sent portals all around the Multiverse for you to come here with me and fight for our survival. Against the enemy. Against the Mo'ka." Celestia explained. The two men looked to each other. The green man stood prone. Twitching his hand on his hammer, staying rather silent. The women and the children stood still. The two men spoke in a strange tounge, that no pony had ever heard. Then looked back to Celestia.
"I am sorry, we can't help you. We have faced the Mo'ka on our world. We escaped the planet before it's destruction." The pointed ear man said. His voice was peaceful and calm. But deep with sorrow and regret.
"What do you mean. Escaped?" Haze asked.
"A number on our world have known about the Mo'ka for centuries. They call themselves the Death Bringers. They know knowledge of the enemy and spread the word of them, and that their arrival would mean death. We have known of their existence for a while. They were on Split before the first men and Elves. But finally they came, we were unprepared. They slaughtered thousands. Then cast a spell that consumed the planet in flames. Us five. We were the only survivors. We escaped only by using the highest form of magic on our world. The Elementals. I personally cast a portal to Earth. And that is where we are going." The pointed ear one explained.
"We are sorry. But you cannot defeat them. Just run. Or go down fighting. Our world lost billions. In a single day." The armoured one added. Everypony looked down. Silence followed. It was the green man who broke the silence.
"Now these Mo'ka. Never heard of them. But they sound evil and I hate evil. I will join your war. Name's Korgol. Orc of Skyrim." He said. His voice deep and scary.
"Yes. I will join the fight to. Seems you could do with some magic. The inbrain for the insane as I always say." Cockwhistle added.
"Are you sure you will not join us? We have weaponry superior to yours. Except the gun. Never seen that before. We have numerous ponies ready for this." Celestia asked of the two men.
"We have children. We cannot hope to defend them in a war zone." The armoured man argued.
"They can stay here. Our castle is protected. Except the demons. Which we still need to clear out." Celestia muttered. Looking up at the black horde that patiently waited for the shield to drop. The two men looked up.
"Shab!" The pointy eared man shouted. Aiming his gun up.
"Thomas. Orga. Look at me." The women finally said. The two turned. "We didn't run from the Mo'ka just to be brought here to pass through and let them die. Wherever we go the Mo'ka will follow. We know this. Stay and fight. For The Hunters." The women said calmly. She had a lovely, quiet voice, much like Fluttershy's.
"Okay. We will fight with you. The name is Thomas Longwater. Knight of the Guild of the Defenders of Split and warrior of the legendary group; The Hunters." The armoured man introduced.
"I am Sir Orga Blood'ren. Knight of the guild of the Defenders of Split. Chosen mage of the Elementals and leader of The Hunters. These are Chari Longwater. And her two children, master Corn, and lady Hope. We are at your service." The pointed ear man said.
"Well met. I am Princess Celestia, co ruler of these lands with my sister Luna. These are my knights. Bright Haze, Spectra, Heart Breaker and others. I am sure you can all chat whilst we have dinner tonight. But first we must defeat the demons." Celestia replied. Korgol nodded and laughed slowly. He grabbed his hammer and brought it down to his side. Orga got his gun out and aimed. Thomas touched a strange rune on his sword which made it glow black and everypony else soon readied for the fight.
"Ready?" Haze asked. Wings glowing and white horn appearing. Everything nodded. Haze lowered the shield.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Almost straight away spells were cast and fire swept through the horde. The black creatures screamed out as they fell. Orga shot upwards with his strange gun, firing blue beams of light that was cutting through the demons. Burning straight through, from front to back. Spectra roared and his eyes turned bright red. He jumped up and grabbed a demon, throwing it to the ground before falling the the air himself and smashing his hoof down through the demons face, turning it into mush. The green man Korgol swung his hammer and smacked a demon, it shot into the air hitting numerous of its own kind on the way. Shields were appearing all over then disappearing quickly. It was obvious these demons had a huge weakness toward anything to do with magic. It just burnt through them. Dari was flying around with Rainbow and Haze. The trio had guns and were decaying away at the fresh enemy at the back. Haze said something in the Heart language as ponies were calling it and a demon literally just burst into pieces. Spectra saw this and smiled. Putting in more power to Dark Red and charging through the demon numbers. Tearing them apart, dodging the acid blood and claw attacks. A small fire appeared in front of Spectra and three of the enemy ran through it, burning and dying. Haze yelled something and Spectra looked up to see the newly formed Siren spawning fire walls everywhere.
"Might and fucking magic. He may have infinite magic. But I have god-like strength." Spectra muttered. He then blacked out, giving full power to Dark-Red. The pony turned creature roared loudly and began ripping apart demons. One tried to escape through flying but Dark-Red jumped and landed on it. Crushing it.
"Keep fighting! They will break soon!" Celestia shouted. Covering herself with a shield. Luna was next to her, firing her dark blue shadow magic at the enemy. It was true. The demons were beginning to flee. Flying or running away, most were cut down by magic and gun fire. The survivors gathered together. Many of the soldiers began to move aside the dead ponies. Spitting on the demons as they trotted past.
"Now. For our plan. If you will everypony. Please follow me to my tower. We have much to discuss." Celestia muttered, she then turned and walked away, everypony soon followed.
"I hate politics." Korgol grunted.
"Me too Korgol. Me too." Haze replied. Dark-Red had now become Spectra again and caught up to everypony else.
"Magic is winning this contest Spectra." Haze muttered.
"Excuse me? I killed dozens there." Spectra grunted back, hurt.
"I got thirty-four. How about you?" Haze replied. Winking.
"Enough to win the battle." Spectra said. Then muttered something only he could hear.
"I hate castles." Korgol muttered as they entered the tower of Canterlot. "Shut up." He added.
"I wasn't talking." Haze replied.
"Not you." Korgol snapped. Bright Haze stepped away from the huge creature and walked toward Thomas and his troop.
"-Well we should at least help them fight Orga. We can't keep running. We know that." Thomas said to his Elf friend.
"Fine. Ah it is one of our hosts." Orga replied as Haze got nearer.
"Sir Bright Haze. At your service." He said. Bowing slightly. Nearly firing his gun by accident. He put it on safety.
"Sir Orga Blood'ren. And it would appear we are at Your service." The Elf replied.
"Well you are guests in this dimension. In another time I am sure we would be talking for different matters." Haze said, smiling.
"In another time I would be on Split and not have just watched it burn and die along with everyone I have ever known and loved, along with countless billions more. These Mo'ka, they have no mercy. They personally invaded us. Be knowing that your world is lucky to have gotten these, demons. You have a chance in this. Split never did. But we are here now. So I am going to kill every last one of those creatures." Orga muttered angrily. Haze paused, not sure how to go on from this.
"I am sorry about your home." Haze muttered. Orga paused then. Then finally nodded.
"Thank you. Perhaps you are right. In another times we would be, friends. Talking through dimensions on petty things." The Elf said quietly. "But I lost my planet, my home today. It has been a rather long week. Full of deaths of very close friends. All for nothing."
"But you survived. I am sure they didn't die in vein. You have had your deaths to the hands of the enemy. So have we. Very close friends. And family, have been killed by the enemy." Haze replied. Spectra and Dari caught up. Dari began talking to the female, Chari. Haze gulped down something. "Lost family, including my daughter." Haze added. Loud enough for Dari to hear. She did, she froze. Dari looked to Haze.
"But." Dari began.
"You can't take the most horrible memory I have ever witnessed away from me. My daughter was killed by those humans. The Mo'ka corrupted them to. No matter how much magic you use I will never forget what happened that day. I died. I shouldn't be here. My Dee is dead in the Void and my daughter is nothing but dust. You had no right to attempt to take that memory away from me. I thank you that you tried. But you had no right. Tage was my daughter." Haze interrupted. Tears falling slowly.
"I am sorry Haze." Dari muttered, looking down. They reached the tower.
Everypony entered and sat in different seats around the huge table. The humans of the group, and Elf, Orc, Serpent and Knife. Decided to stand as the chairs were designed for ponies so not only were they too low for people, but mishapen as well. Celestia and Luna sat on the two thrones next to each other and looked to everypony.
"We need a plan." Celestia muttered. Everypony gave a poker face.
"No shit." Nick muttered. Dari kicked him slightly. Cutting herself.
"Fuck." She cursed.
"Shut up." Twilight whispered.
"Any ideas on this 'plan'?" Haze asked.
"No. After this latest attack we are now to damaged to fight a lengthy war as we have previously planned. The Mo'ka would have out maned, out gunned and out planned us anyway. But now we will be truly outnumbered." Celestia replied.
"Then we need more men. Sorry, more ponies." Crystal put in from the other side of the table.
"Exactly. And there aren't any left. Cloudsdale is still being rebuilt. The Dwellers are no longer a war state, and from what Luna has said. Killing themselves so there are no future generations looking back at their defeat. We really have no pony to fight for us." Celestia said back.
"That I can help. Do you have dragons here?" Orga asked.
"Yes. Why?"
"Because if you had a Great Dragon. We may have an army."
"What do you mean?"
"Well. Split obviously knew more about the Mo'ka than this world does. But the Mo'ka have always been around. But due to twelve leaders. Twelve Great Dragons, the Mo'ka were weakened by their power and had no magical influence at all, thus, crippled. I have been told this by Split's Great. Great Sha. And I can remember him saying about a Great in Equestria. Now obviously he has died or the Mo'ka would still be in exile. If we were to get into contact with the living Dragon leader. We may be able to talk them into an alliance." Orga replied. Leaning back against the wall smiling.
"Then we need the dragons here. Tia?" Haze muttered, looking to the princess.
"I shall send a message now." The princess replied and got up to cast the Communication spell.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
It had now been three days since Celestia had sent word to the dragons. There was nothing. Everypony were waiting at the gates of Canterlot, they had been for three days now. No dragons, and no demons. No anything. Everypony stood in a line staring into the sky. However everypony was becoming restless, mainly the members of the group from other worlds. Haze had walked in to the room of those Split survivors to check on them. Not only was Chari and the two children in the same bed, but Thomas was asleep, sword at his side. And Orga, Orga was sitting still on a chair close to the door with his bow notched and ready.That had been fun, to say the least. It was only a matter of time before they all asked to go home. They weren't meant to be here, and were only staying for the honour of fighting the Mo'ka, or in some cases, getting vengence on them.
"Maybe they have given up." Korgal suddenly declared. Everypony looked to him in comfusion.
"Who?" Haze asked of the Orc.
"The enemy, the Mo'ka." Korgal replied.
"No." Orga muttered, all eyes went to him. "They will never give up until every living thing in the Multiverse is dead. Inifite possibilities you say? They wish for one, the Mo'ka Multiverse." The Elf added.
"Well. Fuck." Nick declared. Somehow everypony had gotten use to the fact Nick was a magical talking knife. Thankfully with minimal explanation.
"Dragon!" Spectra shouted. Pointing a hoof, everypony looked to where he was pointing and he was right. One lone dragon was flying toward Canterlot. It was huge. The sun was behind it, lowering for late afternoon and the sclaes reflected a bright green colour. The air made the sound of wings flapping as it neared. Everypony prepared weapons, just in case.
It eventually landed just outside of Canterlot. This dragon was generally huge. A wing span of over fifteen feet at the least, a long spiked tail and big black eyes. It's claws alone were bigger than Thomas' broadsword, and would easily win a fight against the warrior.
"I will deal with this. Hopefully your dragons speak the same language here as ours did." Orga declared and walked forward. He began to speak in a strange language. Fluttershy squeaked and hide behind Twilight, scared out of her mind at the sight of the huge creature.
"Okay, war over. Can I go home now?" Fluttershy declared quietly.
"No Fluttershy, we need you and your Element. We could use them, use a huge spell from our combined powers and at least damage the enemy." Twilight replied. Stroking the yellow mares hair softly to calm her down.
"Haze." Heart Breaker said quietly, standing beside his friend.
"Yeah?" Haze asked.
"What are we doing here?" Heart Breaker asked.
"What do you mean? We are fighting for our home."
"I mean, why are we here, in Equestria. We should've stayed at home, where it's safe."
"But the Mo'ka would have still come. We have no control over our fates Heart, you should know that by now."
"Yeah but thousands of years in our future."
"Heart, Crystal is a human who is thousands of years in our future. If we had stayed home, not only would it be that kind of human controlling Equestria, but he would be alone fighting the enemy. Anyway, we would all have died had I not been transported to here. This is my home now Heart. Fuck Earth." Haze replied. Heart Breaker nodded.
"How did you get your memories back anyway?" Heart asked.
"I told you. You can't take something as painful as that day away from me." Haze replied calmly.
"You are taking it rather, well." Heart dared to say.
"No." Haze replied, looking down. "No I'm not. Just saving it up. These Mo'ka aren't getting away with it. Just be gretaful I haven't let Spectra tear Crystal's throat out yet. Although I must say they are getting more, together. Getting along, a bit." Haze added. His wings flapped a bit and he waved his head about to get some hair out of his face. Heart just laughed.
"Need a damn haircut mate." He laughed.
"Heart. Have you looked at your tail recently?" Haze replied, it was true. heart's tail had nearly made it onto the floor now. The Austrailian turned pony blushed. The dragon suddenly shot up into the air and flow away, Orga turned and walked toward the group.
"So?" Nick asked. "How'd it go?" The knife added.
"We have until tomorrow afternoon. Once the dragons get here, we need to go. So. I guess this is the quiet before the war." Orga replied. Pinkie Pie began to jump up and down.
"We have already got a chapter called that! It should be 'Dawn before the War'!" Pinkie shouted smiling. Everypony went silent. Celestia walked out of the city.
"Where are we at?" The Goddess asked.
"We have twenty-fur hours. Once the dragons arive. We need to move." Orga replied quickly.
"Better get prepared then. Everypony. Get some sleep. It will be a long fight tomorrow." She ordered, everypony nodded and began to walk back into the city. Luna passed the group as they entered the gates. The two sisters stood together watching the group go inside of the city.
"They're going to die aren't they?" Luna asked. Celestia jumped slightly.
"Sorry?" She asked.
"As much as I hate to think it. It's true isn't it. They are all going to die." Luna rephrased. Silence from her sister. Ce;estia looked down to the floor.
"Yes." She answered. "They are." Celestia added. They watched the group enter the city and all hope was lost.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
It was time: Everypony stood in armour and arms, waiting for the dragons to arive so they would go into battle against the greatest threat known to the Multiverse. Celestia had the portal spell ready and everypony stood still. Bright Haze wore his golden-iron Dweller King armour, thick, strong metal with a saddle with a crossbow attached to it. He had a black eye patch over his blind eye and was covered from neck downwards in this armour. It did limit his flying however, the previous king had rather small wings compared to Haze's so he had to squeeze them through the gaps. Saving re-forgement time. Time they didn't have anymore. This was it. Everypony was nervous and scared, he could see this. Hell, Haze himself was woozy with fear. He had to say something. He walked forward to face everypony. They all looked at him.
"My friends, ponies and creatures of the Multiverse, you are all here today to face agianst the threat of the Mo'ka. I am honoured you chose to fight with us, when you could have abandoned us so easily and gone back to your homes. But here we all stand, as brothers, and sisters. Waiting for the time where we can face against this threat. I cannot garentee you will come home alive. But I can, and will promise this. We will not fail in our mission. No matter what the enemy throws at us, remember my words today. These Mo'ka, they are only alive to destroy, we are the only things standing in their way of total destruction to the Multiverse. We are the men, Elves, Orcs and ponies that are standing up for our homes. If we are to fail today. Remember we will have crippled the enemy enough for them to rethink their plans. Whatever happens I promise there will always be ponies that will fight against them. There is no way in Tartarous these bastards will win this war. Even if we fail today, we will have shown the Multiverse knows where they are and how to get to them. However, we will not fail, we will defeat the Mo'ka, and we will save our homes. For Equestria's dead. And for Split's. Now. I ask you one thing for the coming battle. Are you with me?" Haze shouted out. The group, along with the chosen battalion of pony guards and Cloudsdale Pegasi all looked to Haze and cheered. Wasn't the greatest speech, but it was enough.
"Haze, I have said to you time and again: To the very fucking end." Heart Breaker called back.
"I am with you Haze, just pray I leave you some to kill with your magic against my might." Spectra shouted.
"Haze, if I didn't come with you today and stay until the very end, I am no Siren." Dari said.
"They will have to tear me limb from limb for me to quit on Equestria." Steven shouted.
"This is for Aeb. I am with you." Shadow called.
"I may be crippled and old, but I sure as shit ain't going to miss out on some Mo'ka killing." Diamond Ray called, one by one everypony gave their aligence to Haze and to Equestria. I came round to Korgal, Orga, Thomas, Cockwhisle and Crystal.
"Are you with us?" Haze asked, holding a hoof out.
"Aye. My hammer has never tasted the blood of Mo'ka. It will be a change from the cold of Skyrim." Korgal said, shaking hands with Haze.
"We stand no chance, but I will not allow the enemy to get away with the death of Split. I am with you." Orga said.
"Well I might as well go. I can't leave this world without the bastard." Thomas smiled.
"I haven't come this far just to let some Jobalies die." The Professer declared and bounced over to Pinkie.
"I guess I am the only one left. Well. I betray my race to come to you. I ain't giving up even after the chance of certain death rose to one millon percent." Crystal muttered.
"Then be ready. Here be dragons." Haze replied as a dragon roar was heard. The group watched as the dragon army neared to the city. Everypony looked up and Spectra, Heart and Rainbow closed in close to Haze.
"This is it then. The war." Spectra muttered.
"Yeah." Bright Haze replied.
"Do we have a plan?" Heart Breaker asked.
"Nope."
"Is there any hope?" Rainbow asked.
"Course not."
"We are going to die aren't we." Spectra grunted.
"You guys aren't." Bright Haze replied, the trio around him looked to the Siren. He looked stright ahead.
"What do you mean by that?" Spectra asked.
"Nothing. Celestia if you would be so kind." Haze replied, the Princess turned and looked to the pony, it was now clear he had no sleep the previous night and was shattered already. The Goddess nodded however and her horn began to glow.
"What is going on?" Rainbow asked. Spectra gulped.
"He is going for it." The Pegaus replied.
"G-going for it?" Rainbow asked, scared. A portal appeared before Haze and he looked at it. Then aimed down the gun and turned.
"My friends. There was never any war. Go home." Haze declared and ran into the portal. Rainbow ran forward.
"No!" She shouted. Specta and Heart looked to the portal and realised what just actually happened and ran forward as well, but the portal closed before they could reach it. Everypony looked to Celestia. War broke out in the group.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
"You can't just let him go in alone! He will die! That will help no pony!" Spectra shouted to Celestia.
"Get that portal open right now!" Rainbow added. The Princess just stood there and took it. Everypony was shouting at someone. Mostly Celestia, most ponies were more comfused than angry however and just stared where Haze had just stood in utter shock.
"He came to me last night and asked to go in alone. Sayng we would need more ponies here than there for the Mo'ka fight back, which is bound to come." Celestia muttered. Clearly upset with her choice.
"Princess Celestia, you may be our God and leader. But you. Open. That. Fucking. Portal." Spectra replied quietly. She looked down to the floor.
"Tia. Please. He will die and you know it. Let them go, we couldn't explain to the dragons what we just did, let alone tell them to go home and wait for the enemy to come to us. We are ready sister. Please." Luna begged. Crying even, Celestia looked to her sister. Her horn began to glow.
"I am sorry. Save Haze, I hope you can forgive me." Celestia muttered as she began to open a large enough portal outside the gates for the dragons to get into. Every pony nodded and quiet came back to the small force.
"Thank you Princess." Twilight said, smiling slightly.
"Please Twilight. Not now." Celestia replied. Orga nodded suddenly and straightened himself up.
"Right, let's move. The dragons are ready. Are we?" Orga asked. ]
"Of course. Celestia." Heart Breaker replied. Celestia nodded and the portal opened, the pony guard and Cloudsdale ponies ran in, followed by the dragon army and everypony else. Soon it was just the main group standing there idle.
"Our top mission is to find Haze, then regroup and fight these bastards." Spectra declared.
"Even with the dragons we are still vastly out numbered." Shadow muttered.
"Then we fight to the last mare and colt. If we retreat, they will have won. Let's go kick some ass." Heart Breaker muttered and ran into the portal, everypony soon followed.
The travel was over in a second. There the group now stood on a black coloured ground with a black sky and just, darkness. The sounds of battle was already heard and the group could see Mo'ka and pony forces alike fighting it out. The dragons were flying above the battle of this barren land burning the enemy away. Somesort of laser fire was being shot by the enemy at the dragons, setting them on fire. Screams and orders barked as ponies fought against the enemy. Spectra prepared to go Dark Red when he was hit in the head by a blinding light. He was knocked back slightly but wasn't hurt. Above the dazed figure flow Haze, burning white eyes and the magic white horn on his head.
"I told Celestia not to let you through. You are going to die here!" Haze shouted, in two voices, he was obviously in the form of The Heart, as he had been when he became a Siren.
"Yeah well we came, what are you going to do about it." Spectra replied. Haze shot him again.
"Go back!" He shouted, continued to shot, the magic was getting stronger, more painful.
"Haze. We are your friends, stop before I get pissed." Spectra said, already felling his DR powers growing.
"Go home Spectra, you have no power here. I tried to save you all. How stupid youw ere to come here!" Haze shouted and shot again. Spectra became Dark Red.
"Right!" He shouted. "Now you've gone and pissed me off!" Dark Red shouted and jumped up to Haze, he forged a shield and deflected Spectra, throwing him to the ground.
"Spectra!" Rainbow shouted. Dark Red ignored her and lunged at Haze again, flying faster. Breaking the shield and landing a punch on the Siren pony. Who shot the Pegasus with a blast of magic and sent him flying again. Spectra aimed his gun at Haze and actually shot. Another shield was formd but broke under the pressure. Luckily not hitting Haze.
"You have no power Spectra!" Haze shouted again. "Go home."
"Not without you my friend!" Dark Red shouted. He jumped up and punched Haze again, who then blacked out, lost his Siren powers and fell from the sky.
The battle was still raging when Haze woke up. He felt his head to find a patch of blood there.
"Shit. What happened?" Haze asked, groaning. Everypony was standing over him, except a few who were guarding the group by shooting any Mo'ka advancing to them.
"One of the most epic battles of Equestria's history. Welcome back friend." Spectra declared and lifted Haze up.
"I went Siren Haze didn't I?" He asked.
"And I went Dark Red. Congrats. Now, what is the plan?"
"You are not meant to be here."
"And we sure as fuck weren't going to leave you to die alone. Die old, not today eh?" Spectra replied.
"Aye. Well, thank you. My plan. Is to kill as many as these murderers as I can. Wish to join me?" Haze asked. The Heavy Weapons Guy walked over eating a sandwich.
"Puny enemy die to Sasha. Like little babby." He declared.
"Sure, why not." Spectra replied.
"Okay, everyone, split up and gather as many ponies as you can, I will met you all in the middle." Haze ordered. Everypony nodded and split up. Spectra, Heart and Rainbow followed Haze.
"What happened to split up?" Haze asked.
"We know what you are going to do." Rainbow replied.
"I stand by what I said earlier. I am holding it all in. Now excuse me, this is going to be loud." Haze said back. Running toward a group of the enemy, his wings, mane and tail giving off white fire as he ran. The Mo'ka turned and attacked with thier strange spear like weaponry. Shooting red laster shots at the Siren, missing them all, bouncing off his shield he had conjured up.
"Where. Is, Your. Leader!" Haze shouted and took on all twenty Mo'ka troops. Everypony just watched.
Twenty minutes later
Spectra dodged a swing of a Mo'ka spear and shot his gun, the enemy burning away almost instantly. Another came at him and he used his gun as a sheild to the blow the laser shot would have given, the Decay Gun sparked slightly but was fine. Hopefully. Spectra was holding back Dark Red for the finale so was focusing on using his gun before his melee first. Which was becoming rather effetive. The Mo'ka shot his spear again but Spectra flow over it, charging at the enemy in the air and drop kicking it. Then aiming the gun down, then he fired. The enemy began to disappear before Spectra's eyes.
"Keep pushing! Never give up! We can't give up! Keep PUSHING!" Spectra shouted, taking down two more of the enemy. He had no idea where Haze had gone. Rainbow was next to him however. She was shooting with him, taking as many of the enemy down as possible.
"Spectra!" Rainbow suddenly shouted.
"What? Keep pushing." Spectra asked, but he had already seen it.
"Spectra, we are surrounded and outnumbered." Rainbow replied. Spectra saw it, hundreds of the enemy, all holding spears aimed at the pair.
"Keep fighting hun." Spectra shouted, refusing to see their defeat.
"Spectra!" Rainbow shouted, pulling the Pegasus colt around. "It's over, we have done our part." Rainbow muttered.
"Don't you dare give up." Spectra shouted, as he did a mo'ka shot him, he felt red burning pain run down his body and he screamed. Rainbow pulled him in close and kissed him, deep. A kiss in the darkness the two shared as the Mo'ka unleashed fire upon the pair.
--Haze's P.O.V--
Bright Haze was running through the battle, shooting every Mo'ka he saw. They burned away in the white light as he ran. Toward the edge of the battle where the leader was supposily at. The enemy were swarming, the dragon numbers were falling quickly and they were losing the fight. It was only a matter of time. A unicorn horn flow over Haze, still attached to some of the ponies head. A scream sounded out and an explosion ran out. Haze saw a unicorn captain trying to bring order to his squad.
"Get some shields up! Keep pushing! For Equestria!" The captain shouted. Shooting a fire spell at one of the enemy, the adapt mages readied a spell, a blue shield formed over the group, but they were surrounded. A Mo'ka shot the shield and it turned red, the magic itself caught fire and every pony inside the shield began to burn screaming. Haze turned and shot bolts to the enemy, felling them all.
"Where is your leader!" Haze shouted. Crying. The memory of Tage's death came back, along with his death. Along with Dee's. Haze screamed and his entire coat turned white in fire. He ran past the rest of the battle to stare face to face with a large Mo'ka.
"I believe you have been looking for me." The enemy said in English.
"I have. Now. Go fuck yourself." Haze replied and shot all the magic he could conjure up into one huge ball at the Mo'ka leader. He disappeared in a ball of light. Haze spat into the ball of magic, swirling around the enemy leader.
"I believe, you came here to die. Haze." The enemy leader shouted, blasting the magic off like nothing. He suddenly cahnged form and smiled.
"Oh Sir Bright Haze, you are MY hero." The enemy was now in the form of Derpy Haze. His wife. The creature even had her voice.
Haze opened his mouth and ran backwards, only to be blocked by three Mo'ka.
"Go on. Kill me. Do it husband." Derpy smiled. holding the Mo'ka spear in one hoof. She shot Haze's wing. It burst in flame and he screamed.
"DEE!" Haze shouted, crying.
"I am your Dee Haze. I am your wife. NOW KILL ME!" Derpy shouted, shooting his other wing. Haze nearly passed out but stayed awake in fear.
"Derpy." Haze cried.
"KILL ME!" Derpy shouted, burning his horn off, the white horn went red and burnt off.
"You. Are. Not. My, Derpy." Haze muttered, he was in so much pain, more so than his return from the Void.
"Kill me then. Coward!" The fake Derpy ordered. Haz'es horn regrow and a shield formed around him in bright white light.
"You. Are. Not. MY DERPY!" Haze shouted and shot his Decay Gun at the enemy, he shot again and again at the enemy. Not stopping until the fake Derpy died screaming. In her voice. The Mo'ka leader turned back to it's real form as it began to Decay away.
"You. Still. Won't. Win." The Mo'ka leader gasped.
"No. But you would have died. Dee is avenged. But my daughter isn't. We may not win. But I will not stop fighting until my body is out of blood and my bones are shattered and broken. I will NEVER stop fighting you. You took away the only thing worth living for away from me, and now you are killing my friends. Bad move." Haze replied, and shot the enemy leader in the face. It died screaming and cursing.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
In Defense of the Multiverse
--Spectra's POV--
Spectra could hear and feel his heart beating wildly, he could still feel Rainbow's lips on his and he realized he wasn't dead. His eyes were just closed and he was scared.
"I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead." Spectra kept saying. He couldn't hear anything. Rainbow stopped the kiss and opened her eyes.
"Spectra. We are not dead." She muttered, slowly. Spectra opened his eyes, around the pair was a large purple shield. Twilight Sparkle was inside next to Rainbow casting the spell.
"We aren't fucking dead!" Spectra shouted.
"No you're not. Now can we get back to the fight. I'm running low on magic. They are so strong." Twilight grunted.
"Oh right of course, let's go." Spectra blushed. He grew his power and became Dark Red, his eyes burned red.
"Let's go!" He shouted and jumped into the fight. He shot his gun aimlessly into the enemy and felled dozens. Rainbow stood next to him and also gave off a volley of gunfire. Twilight stood dazed for a few seconds before aiming down her spear and stabbing at the closest enemy. She pulled the weapon out of the dying body, these things didn't even bleed, they just fell, dead. No noise or anything. Twilight teleported and stabbed another in the back. Her ears were ringing, much like everypony else's.
Spectra, Rainbow and Twi all stood in a line shooting and fighting, tearing through the enemy. But they kept coming. Twilight constantly having to put some kind of protective spell up to avoid the trio being shot. But many ponies weren't so lucky. Dead and dying lay everywhere, some so bloody and burnt it was near on impossible to see anything but blood. Death had a firm grip on this fight and he wasn't letting go. The Equestrians were losing too many too quickly and would need to either rally or run soon. Before the loses become too much everypony dies. An explosion ran and a blue coloured wing flow through the air and landed near a dead Mo'ka. Blood trailing after it. The sounds of battle had dimmed, but not in a good way, both from everypony losing hearing, and the fact the pony numbers were dropping drastically. There was fire everywhere as well, from spells or guns, fire had littered the world. Lighting the place up to show everypony the real death count. They had come here with other two thousand ponies and dragons. Well the dragons were gone and the ponies would be lucky to come out of this with a hundred survivors, if they did in deed come out. But it looked like it really would be to the last mare or colt.
"Rainbow. I love you." Spectra muttered. When there was no reply. His heart dropped.
--Haze's POV--
Bright Haze was charging through the ranks of the enemy. He killed everyone one of them that he saw but more kept coming. Swarming over the battlefield killing ponies left and right. Haze had taken a scratch on the metal plating he had attached to his body and the wound was stinging badly. His wings were bloodied and broken and refused to fly. Everywhere he looked was a dead pony fallen surrounded by hundreds of the enemy. The ponies had certainly killed more, but the Mo'ka had more to spare, Equestria didn't. Every pony dead was another grieving family. Each Mo'ka dead, meant another six would join the fight. Shields kept popping up and gunfire would sound but then cut of, Equestria was certainly losing this fight. The real question was, what would that mean for the Multiverse? The Mo'ka had attacked Equestria out of rage from Humanities defeat and Haze closing the portal. But this time there were a lot more universes at stack. Thomas and Orga had already faced these enemy, and lost. The Mo'ka had killed billions on their world. Or so they say, but Haze had no reason to doubt them. He knew of their power. Every pony on Equestria did. Either way, they needed reinforcements if they were to survive any longer. A rally was out of the question, ponies had come in with friends and family. But now were alone and dying. Like Haze.
More burning pain shot through his body as a Mo'ka shot his back leg. Blood dripped out and Haze fought back a scream. The pony turned and shot with magic, killing the enemy. Haze ran forward, ducking under another and shooting with the gun.
The gun that had killed Dee.
No.
The gun that had killed the leader.
Haze waved his head about in frustration. What good had killing the leader done? The enemy hadn't even flinched. It wasn't for revenge because Haze still felt, empty. Enough hadn't been done against the enemy but it was costing pony lives. Haze stopped at a corpse. A young stallion with only one leg still attached. The body was burned and bloody, only the cutie mark could be seen.
A small red flower in a heart. This pony was a romantic colt. A lover, not a fighter. But he had died nevertheless. Too young to die. Too young for fighting. Haze paused and looked around. There were barely any ponies standing anymore, just Mo'ka and red laser lights of their spears. This had gone to far.
"Retreat!" Haze shouted, turning and running away from the fight. He cast a spell to allow his voice to be louder and repeated it over and over. Some ponies saw him and heard him. They began to run as well. Spear fire followed everypony as they ran away from the fight. Wounded and dying were ahead. Many ponies covering the retreat. Still they were shot and killed. Haze opened a portal for everypony and they ran through. Only when Haze was certain everypony was safe did he run too. Getting shot as he went, Haze came crashing through the portal as it closed, getting back to Equestria, there. He passed out.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
--Spectra's POV--
Spectra ran through the portal that Haze had opened, the Siren Pegasus didn't seem to notice the pair as Spectra carried the passed out Rainbow. The gun on his saddle had fallen off when he picked her up, but right now he didn't really care for a gun. His wife was dying. Spectra ran straight through back to Equestria without even glaring back. There were medical unicorns, who really had their hooves full right now. Spectra placed Rainbow down onto a bed as a few unicorn healers arrived, but it wasn't enough. There were wounded everywhere and dead littered the floor. Ponies kept pouring through the portal, even Celestia and Luna were even helping the healing and rushing through the crowds of unicorns and wounded. Spectra had tears in his eyes and pain through his body. Screams and shouts had filled the air and the stink of blood filled the noses of everypony. Spectra was close to throwing up, the only thing that stopped him was the fact Rainbow was laying there dying. Spectra was tired and hurt, but wouldn't rest until Rainbow was safe. There was a loud noise and Spectra watched as Haze shot through the portal, it closed and he feel to the ground, blood dripped from his body.The portal promptly closed behind him.
"Haze is down! What the fuck do we do! They are going to come here and kill us all!" Heart Breaker shouted, Spectra could see the others around a bed, one of Spectra's friends was dying, but right now, he had Rainbow to look after. Spectra felt a tap of a hoof on his own and he looked down to see Rainbow was looking up to him, with tears in her eyes.
"S-Spectra." She muttered. Her voice was weak and quiet.
"Rainbow, look at me, just look at me. Don't you dare die. You are going to be fine. You hear me?" Spectra shouted, crying already.
"That's a lie and you know it." Rainbow muttered, smiling weakly. Her voice was weakening and her breathing was shallow.
"Come on Rainbow. Stay with me!" Spectra shouted. "You can't die!"
"Spectra. Don't worry, just look after the kids. And don't die." Rainbow muttered.
"I won't and neither will you. Rainbow, stay with me!" Spectra shouted, his eyes were glowing red.
"Spectra. Stop. It's okay." Rainbow muttered, her hoof dropped down. She closed her eyes slowly.
"Rainbow. Nononononononononono!" Spectra shouted, Rainbow smiled once more and stopped breathing. "NO!" Spectra shouted, he started panicking and called for help. The unicorns around Rainbow stopped casting and looked to Spectra, one tapped his shoulder and waved his head.
"I am so sorry." The unicorn said and walked off, the other healers began to heal other ponies. Spectra just looked at Rainbow.
"Please." Spectra muttered, he pushed his muzzel into Rainbow's chest and wept. He could feel something pulling away from him, he looked up to see a ghostly figure of himself, his, it's eyes were glowing red and the cutie mark was a red colour. It was Dark Red. The ghost disappeared and Spectra knew it. Dark Red was gone, his rage was gone. Another figure appeared, the eyes of Spectra's ghost were glowing white and the cutie mark was all white or light grey. The ghost entered Spectra. He had lost rage and gained fear, grief and pain. Spectra wept into his dead wifes chest.
--Dari's POV--
Dari watched over Shadow, Diamond Ray and the mad Professer lay dying on three beds. The Professer seemed to be mubberling about some small man named Mr Onion but Dari wasn't really listening. It was Shadow who was the only one talking, Diamond seemed to be asleep and would die in his sleep most likely.
"This was all for nothing wasn't it. Everypony has, and will die in vein here won't they?" Shadow muttered, holding his hoof over a wound, three unicorns stood over him. Casting.
"No, now the enemy will think twice before attacking the Multiverse again, they have seen the power of just this world alone and now see that we can and will, fight back. The Mo'ka will think twice, we may have lost. But we sure as shit won't lose the war." Dari replied.
"You really believe that don't you?" Shadow muttered.
"Of course, I, we have to." Dari replied. Shadow nodded.
"Thank you." He muttered, then laughed. "Who will look after the Everfree now?" He asked. Then he closed his eyes and the unicorns stopped casting.
During the night, as predicted both the Professer and Diamond also died. As did so many more. The healing went all through the night and only until morning did the last pony die and the numbers were truely shown. They had gone in with over a thousand dragons and three thousand ponies, now they numbered just over four dragons and four hundred ponies.
Dari could see Spectra sitting and standing with the corspe of Rainbow, not letting anypony move her he had sat there all night. Haze had woken up and limped over, but after a quick conversation left the Pegasus alone and was now talking with Celestia and Luna.
The two Hunters of Split had spent the entire night shouting and screaming at each other and were now standing close to the Princesses waiting to speak to them. They had probably decided to leave and move on to Earth, as the women and the two children were with the bloodied and armoured men.
"What the hell do we do? We are down to under four hundred, we had thousands. What do we do?" Dari asked nopony.
"I dunno Dari. What left is there to do? We are broken, dying and vastly outnumbered. We have nothing left to do. We should never had gone to battle." Heart Breaker replied.
"No we shouldn't have, but we needed to show the enemy that we can and will fight back." Dari muttered.
"Aye. But that didn't answer your question. What the hell do we do now?" Heart Breaker replied.
"No. It didn't, I guess we are about to find out." Dari grunted and stood up as Celestia, Luna and Haze walked toward them. The trio looked to the ponies and nodded.
"The Hunters are going back to Earth and we have decided to send everyone else who aren't from this universe home. It's better that way." Celestia declared. Nick seemed puzzled.
"How is that better? Equestria has been defeated and so many ponies have died in vein." The Knife grunted.
"They are leaving so they can go home to their own homes. Defend themselves. It has been decided I will open a portal as soon as-" Celestia was cut off by a loud noise. The sound of a portal, but it was big. Everypony who wasn't resting stood up and aimed weapons. The portal began to form, two more could be seen outside the gates. The two were giant, the biggest anypony had seen. The portal in front was smaller, but still huge.
"Goodbye my friends." Haze muttered, not even raising his gun.
"Everypony fall back to the castle!" Luna barked, panick quickly spread and ponies began to run. A few brave souls decided to stay, the knights of Equestria among that number. Celestia also stayed.
"You have all been so brave my little ponies. Thank you." She said.
"Kill as many as you can, hold them as long as possible! Let the civilians prepare!" Heart Breaker shouted aiming his gun. The portal was now fully formed and creatures came out.
It wasn't the Mo'ka.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
The portals certainly didn't belong to that of the Mo'ka, nor any other enemy for that matter. Before Celestia and the others stood two humans and a pony, wearing navy blue metal armour holding either a spear-axe or a gun, not a Decay or whatever Orga's was, ManaGun or something. But it was certainly a gun. The tired ponies looked to the trio and saw a large force of ponies, and humans march out of the back of the portal. It was the same outside, a huge force was gathered in one spot. All pouring out of these three portals. Everypony just prayed they were on the right side. Whatever that would mean.
"Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria. I am humbled of your arrival. Who are you pray tell?" Celestia asked.
"I am Fallen Gear, these are my friends, Jona and Tilman. It is a pleasure to met such, royalty." The pony in the middle replied, he had a dark blue coloured mane and grey skin. Much of his body was covered by his armour but his head was open to look at. His voice was that of a young pony and seemed jumpy.
"Well, welcome to Equestria Fallen Gear. What brings you here?" Celestia asked. Not wanting to presume anything.
"Well. In our universe, humans and ponies live and grow together. Rules by one pony, and one human we prospered for centuries after the humans came to us after their world had died from their own stupidity. They saw our way of life and those who wanted a second chance, were allowed onto Equestria to live with us. The others, died with their planet, only wanted our world for their own greed and growth. Not survival or a second chance. A few years ago we heard about the Mo'ka and how they were planning on Multiverse domination, for we have had scouts in their world for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, watching them. We heard about how they corrupted humanity and made them attack a pony universe and humanities defeat. We thought the worse when our scouts didn't report anything for months, but just last week, we heard your distress call and came for you. I can see however, we were far too late. We have our army here and ready, so. Princess, what is the plan?" Fallen Gear asked.
"There is no plan." Haze shouted to the pony. "You are right. You came to late. Thousands have died and I am not prepared to allow anypony else into the Void. You should have let me go alone. Now look how many have died!" Haze shouted. Everypony was silent for a while, starting at him. Spectra walked up to the Pegasus Siren and punched him in the face.
"Well this isn't about you! This isn't about YOUR revenge and the death of YOUR family anymore! Rainbow died because we followed you. She died, along so many others so we would give the Multiverse a chance in fighting back. This isn't about you anymore. So what, you killed Discord? You are the Element of Sacrifice. The defender of Equestria, you defeated the Dweller king and have saved Equestria more times than anypony would ever dream. But so many times you have thought it was up to YOU to save us! So many times you have thought that it was YOU that HAD to die. And YOU who had to fight. Well you weren't alone and never will be. Now, these ponies have come here to help us win this war. Help US. Not stand by and watch you die again Haze. This is all of our fights." Spectra shouted. Haze looked to his friend with a bruised eye.
"Well. Spectra." Haze muttered, slowly. "These ponies have come here to fight a war we cannot hope to win. And I for one will not be here to watch them die." Haze added. "They are your problem. " He finally put in and began to trot off.
"Where the fuck are you going?" Spectra shouted.
"Away from this bullshit. I am done!" Haze shouted back. Before dropping. "Oh and one more thing." He said. Then turned, eyes burning white. He ran at Spectra faster than anypony and smacked him across the face with an armoured hoof, knocking the Pegasus down. "Don't you dare question my methods. It has kept Equestria safe countless times. I am the hero of Equestria! Now those things. Killed my daughter and my wife. I will kill every one of them before I have my revenge and you will not stop me." Haze shouted. His ghost horn appeared and he cast a spell, vanishing into thin air.
Spectra stood up, wiping the blood from his mouth and spitting. Heart walked over to him.
"Fuck are you okay. I have never seen Haze like this." The Human turned Alicorn said.
"That's because that. Was not Haze. He isn't a Siren, that magic inside him is corrupting him. He is human, they were never meant for magic." Dari replied. "He is going to burn up, become the most powerful being in the Multiverse and kill every last one of the enemy. Normally this would be a good thing. But he won't stop, the corruption will make him destroy the Void. Now it is, a dark, horrible place. But it is also there to keep the worlds apart, if he destroys it. Every reality of excistance will collide." Dari added.
"Then we need to stop him." Fallen Gear muttered, confused clearly due to what was going on.
"We can't stop him. I don't even know where he has gone." Dari muttered. "We need to draw the magic out of him. Meaning it will go to somepony else. But it has to be a true pony. Possibly even an alicorn. A powerful one." Dari added, then looked to Celestia. "We need your mother." The ex Siren muttered, then repeated. "We need Faust."
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Legends of Equestria Part 1
Bright Haze stood at Aeb's, Derpy's and Tage's graves. Tears dripping down the side of his face, wings ruffled from the flight and mane and tail misshapen and scruffy. He let his weight fall suddenly and he sat down with his forelegs under him in front of Dee's grave.
"What the fuck do I do now? So many are dead because I failed to save them and defeat the Mo'ka. I can't do this alone." Haze muttered. Crying now.
"But you aren't alone." a familiar voice said from behind him. Haze turned around saw the dead. Aeb, Shadow, Rainbow, Dee, and the rest of the group stood behind him, as ghostly figures, he could see through them but they were there, Rainbow had spoken.
"You. You all died. You can't be here." Haze muttered, shaking his head, not believing what he saw.
"Haze, you have the most magic anypony can ever imagine. Being around, well, us. Will probably something to disrupt our rest." Aeb replied.
"This isn't happening." Haze shouted, closing his eyes. A few moments pasted of silence and he felt a hood on him, as real as anything. He opened his eyes to see Derpy.
"We are here now Bright Haze. Believe it." She muttered, Haze just nodded.
"Why are you here though?" He asked.
"Too convince you that you aren't alone." Aeb replied.
"You believe yourself to be alone and that this war is just yours and that you are the only one who should fight in this. You have forgotten that you are always surrounded by those willing to fight and die with you. Those ponies, they didn't fall because they thought they would win, they fought to save their home. Your home. You are surrounded by those brave ponies and if you unite the enemy can't win." Diamond Ray added.
"You are not alone in this war Haze. You have Equestria, all you have to do is unite it. All you need to do is prepare for the final fight, do not split from each other, watch each others back. Make sure a pony is never alone. Unite and conquer." Shadow added.
"We died to defend Equestria, don't waste that sacrifice. Your cutie mark may be that of sacrifice, your Element may be the same but you are part of seven, even then, you are part of many more. Think of all the sacrifices we have made in defends of our home. Let others take the burden Haze." Aeb muttered. Dee had said nothing on the subject thus far.
"But, Tage is gone. Dee is gone. I have nothing left. The others, hell. Spectra lost Rainbow today." Haze replied, nodded to the ghost of Rainbow. "He has children to take care of. I don't. I can't let him, or the others die. They have to much to live for." Haze added.
"Then let them fight. So that they CAN go home and live their lives. Let them fight so their children are safe. Let them fight so we can be at peace Haze." Derpy muttered, crying again.
"Fine. For you. I will stop all this." Haze said, Derpy gave him a look. "With the help of everypony here." Haze added, his ghost wife smiled.
"Then until we met again husband." Derpy smiled then the ghosts disappeared. Haze stood still staring at where his dead friends had just been, spreading his wings out to fly back to Canterlot he readied himself. He still hurt all over from wounds and emotion, but flapped his wings to fly.
"Beautiful isn't it?" A soft voice echoed behind him. Haze turned. Before him was a large pony, taller than Celestia and had a larger aura of magic around her. The mare had long trimmed wings, longer than any pony before her. A long white horn, longer and more perfectly shaped than Tia's or Luna's. She had a white body and dark red hair. Haze looked to the majestic figure before him.
"What is?" He asked
"What the presence of magic can do around memories, emotions. Magic is so wonderous, wouldn't one agree?" The mysterious pony replied.
"Magic has, I will admit, shown some beauty to me. But I have never learnt much on it, despite my powers." Haze muttered.
"Of course. The Pegasus turned Siren. Your story is legend across the world." The Alicorn replied.
"Oh it is?"
"Oh. It is."
"Then you must know I am very busy and need to return to my friends. We have a war to fight."
"One you can't possibly win without, say. The creator of Equestria and mare of the Void?"
"Something like that." Haze muttered and began to fly away.
"I don't think you know who I am."
"Enlighten me."
"Queen. Lauren Faust. Equestria's Creator." The mare muttered, smiling.
"Fuck." Haze muttered. "I mean, my queen. Of course how stupid of me." Haze saved and bowed down.
"No need to bow. I didn't expect you to recognise me. Although I am still hurt you don't know what I look like as a pony." Faust replied.
"P-pony form?" Haze asked.
"Well, you are from Terra, Earth aren't you. You didn't think you and Heart Breaker were the only ones. I am Lauren Faust. I created Equestria. I am human, well, part human. I haven't been, me. Since I faked my death on Earth. I used to be human should I say. Now I am a wonderer, a Void creature. One fighting for the good of the Multiverse. A lot like you Haze. Only I know I can't take on the Void alone. No pony, no one. Can. That's why Celestia called for me. Because you, this world. Needs my help. I wish I had an army, but it is just me. Me, those Equestrian-Earth ponies, and Equestria's forces. We can't beat the Void, but we can at least cripple the Mo'ka. That is one less threat."
"One less?" Haze asked.
"Didn't anypony say? The Mo'ka aren't the only thing in the Void that is dangerous. The whole place is corrupt. Everything and anything in the Void will try to kill every living thing in the Multiverse. The Mo'ka? They are Childs play. But nopony has ever tried to stop them. But that ends today. Or tomorrow, or whenever. They are annoyed you attacked them and will come here. That gives them the advantage of time, but we know the landscape, we can defend better than them. So Haze, ready to return to Canterlot?"
"Of course, my queen."
"Stop with all that 'my queen' stuff. I am just a pony. Hey, has swearing been invented here yet?"
"Faust. I brought it over during the Nightmare issue. Many ponies use it now."
"Oh thank fuck. Well, lets get going. Big day, days." Faust replied and cast a teleport spell. In a second they were both back in Canterlot. The magic in Haze drained away, into the atmosphere without him knowing. Faust smiled.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Legends of Equestria Part 2
Haze and Queen Faust stood in front of everypony. The army of humans and ponies still stood around inside and outside of the city. They all were bowing to the queen, who stood still, not bold, like a queen should be. Like Celestia is, but Faust stood there. It was silence for a while, no pony was sure what to say. It was Haze who eventually broke the silence.
“So, are we prepared?” He asked.
“So you are back? You know you can’t do this alone?” Spectra replied, he hadn’t seemed to move, he was still standing over Rainbow’s corpse.
“Friendship is magic isn’t it? Of course I need you, Equestria needs us. I just needed old friends to show me the way.” Haze answered but said nothing else on the matter. Faust nodded but was also silent.
“Then, in that case. What’s the plan?” Spectra asked.
“There is no plan. We wait and prepare for the invasion.” Faust replied.
“Invasion?” Nick asked quickly.
“You didn’t think the enemy would be so overjoyed that you attacked them they would leave you alone did you?” Faust replied with a snap she didn’t mean to put in.
“Shit. The enemy are coming here?” Nick shouted.
“Yes. And soon most likely. But you have an army, and you have me. However, there are innocent ponies here, and I have no way to protect them, so we must hold the enemy here, at Canterlot at all costs.”
“So is this another ‘to the last pony’ fight again?” Spectra asked.
“Yes, but this time, we can’t retreat.” Haze replied. Spectra looked to Rainbow again and nodded; he straightened himself out and picked up a gun saddle.
“Well then, what are we waiting for? Let them come.” He muttered and smiled loosely.
“We must prepare Spectra, we can’t just fight them.” Faust grunted.
“How do we prepare then?” Spectra asked.
“Magic, we put magic mines all around the gates, walls and city and fight them when they get here, fall back through the city and hold them at the castle.” Faust replied. There was another pause, until Luna nodded finally.
“That could work, the castle has many choke points where we could ambush or regroup in, if we are falling that badly. We take them into the tunnels and collapse them behind us, trapping them. And us.” The Night Princess said.
“Yes, that could work, well done daughter.” Faust smiled. Then looked to Fallen Gears.
“Fallen Gears, collect your troops and bring them inside, I need every unicorn to start placing wards. Get the archers on and behind the walls and the warriors inside. We can’t guarantee the enemy will spawn in front of the walls, they could already be here for all we know.” Faust ordered, the stallion nodded and galloped of shouting out orders. Faust then looked to the rest of the Equestrians.
“Celestia, get your remaining forces to join Fallen Gears. Luna, go with your sister. We will stay here inside the city and make sure they don’t flank your.-” Faust paused and smiled. “-Flanks.” She finished. The two alicorn sisters nodded and
ran, the Equestrian guard following.
“You have been a pony for years, and you are still laughing at puns?” Heart Breaker smiled, Faust smiled back and giggled.
“Of course, it’s what keeps me sane.” Faust replied. “Now, let’s get back in the. In the saddle.” The queen and creator of Equestria joked.
“Let’s.” Heart Breaker replied. “What is the plan again?”
“Waiting. They will be here soon.”
“How can you tell?” Haze asked.
“I can feel their magic, well, the magic of the Void anyway. It’s trying to break through, and is breaking through the barrier between the Multiverse and the Void. We have about two minutes.”
“About?” Nick asked.
“Well, one minute forty-five seconds, forty-four.” Faust replied.
“And we are nowhere near prepared.” Haze muttered quietly.
“Naturally.” Heart Breaker replied.
“Check your weapons, check your stamina. This will be a long day.” Haze ordered.
“It is actually about midnight now, but Celestia and Luna are a bit busy to lower the sun and raise the moon.” Faust replied and winked.
“It is going to be a very long night then.” Haze smiled.
“Well if it’s midnight it would still be a long day.”
“Then why correct- actually I don’t want to know, you are the queen, do whatever.”
“I am so glad I have ones permission to do so.”
“Portal!” Spectra shouted. He pointed just outside the gates; a medium sized black portal was swirling into existence. Luckily it was outside the gates, otherwise everypony would have to move, something they couldn’t afford to do.
"Is this it then?" Nick asked.
"It's been 'it' so many times now it means nothing now. But this is certainly the point of Eqestria's survival or destruction." Haze replied.
"Mo'ka!" Some pony on the wall shouted as the enemy poured through, there was a loud explosion on the wall and ponies were shot into the air from the blast. Gunfire from both sides started and shouts and ordered echoed all around.
"We need to get in there." Haze muttered, itching to run in to help.
"Not yet Haze." Faust replied. Staring at the battle, her horn was glowing and magic poured down.
"What is the plan once we get in anyway?" Spectra asked.
"Keep to the edges of their forces and chip away at their numbers, we know we cant win a charge, we just get split from everypony and that obviousl isn't good." Haze replied. The Pegasus nodded.
"What are we waiting for Faust?" Spectra asked the queen, who was concentratingon a spell. She closed her eyes quickly as more magic poured out. Haze started lending magic to the queen, who nodded and smiled, openeing her eyes again.
"You ready?" Faust asked, smiling, the sky was becoming dark and storm clouds began to appear.
"Ready?" Haze asked.
"On my signal, run in and join the fight. I will cover you from here." Faust ordered.
"Of course my queen." Haze replied, nodding his head. Thunder sounded suddenly.
"On three. One. Two.-" Faust said, a ball of lightning struck down and exploded onto the ground into the Mo'ka, more quickly followed, striking quickly and harsely. Booms of explosions continued in a loop as Faust cast her weather spell.
"Three! Get your. Plots, in there!" Faust shouted, pushing Haze with a spell, then turning back to her weather spell. "Go! I can't keep this up forever. Even a queen has her limits to magic! Go. Save Equestria." Faust ordered, the group nodded and charged into battle.
Haze's white horn appeared and he shot into the air with his wings, shooting toward the enemy, red fire shot back, both to him and the defending ponies. There portal was still open and the enemy were still pouring through, explosions and lightning both ran out, stricking each side of the battle. The others charged through the gates and cut through the Mo'ka.
"There are too many!" Spectra shouted.
"There are always to many. Just keep fighting. For Rainbow." Heart Breaker shouted back, shooting an enemy dead.
"For Rainbow." Spectra muttered. "YOU BASTARDS!" Spectra shouted and ran toward a group of the enemy, spamming the Decay Gun trigger. "Go back to the Void! Go fuck yourselves and leave us alone!" Spectra shouted, blasting through the enemy. He ran to a large group, Heart Breaker and Twilight ran after him, shooting the enemy as they ran.
"Spectra!" Heart Breaker shouted. Aiming down his sight and shooting a Mo'ka coming up behind the Pegasus, Spectra kept running. He ran straight into a group of them, all aiming their spear weapons down. the lasers were charging and red sparks had formed on the edge. Spectra paused, slid across the ground and looked up. Twilight and Heart Breaker ran in just as the fire started.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Spectra opened his eyes to pain, so much pain, his body was cool and still. He could feel the bloody leaving his body and he could feel the dampness of the ground. The explosions were still ringing but they were quieter. Spectra rolled slightly and saw Heart Breaker also on the floor laying down, his wings were twitching but otherwise he gave no hint of getting up or moving. Twilight was on her back, crying out, her horn lay broken, the top half laying in blood next to her. Spectra looked to Heart and Twilight once more before he started to crawl toward Heart Breaker. Spectra bit his lip down, to stop himself screaming in pain, causing it to bleed. He tried to flap his wings but no response, either they were gone, or he was crippled, Spectra really didn't care right now.
"Heart Breaker." Spectra muttered, the Alicorn made no movement so Spectra called again, the Alcorn grunted in pain and rolled over slowly turned over slowly and looked to Spectra. His eyes were open slightly, cuts and burns covered his face. His horn was black and his mane was all but gone.
"Well, this, sucks." Heart Breaker muttered, coughing blood. The blood was a crimson colour and was pure liquid.
"What happened?" Spectra asked. Not remembering, his ears were ringing and he smelt burning.
"Lightning, not Faust's, apparently. The enemy have their own mages. Fuck me." Heart grunted weakly. He wasn't lying, just after Spectra, Twilight and Heart Breaker had begun their assault on the enemy troops the clouds went even more black and dark than before and purple lightning had fallen down on the pony forces. The enemy had reversed Faust's spell. They were truely a force of hatred and power.
"Well, I guess this is it." Spectra whispered, closing his eyes. They closed much easier than he would have hoped.
"Yeah, maybe." Heart muttered. There was silence for a minute, the battle dimmed but the deafening booms of the lightning. Spectra wasn't at peace, but had died fighting and would now be with his wife. With Aeb, and Shadow and Derpy, and Tage. All those that had fallen so they could defeat this enemy. This, invincible thing of an enemy.
"SPECTRA! GET YOUR ASS UP!" Haze shouted from somewhere behind the dying Pegasus. Spectra opened his eyes and felt magic surge over him, he saw white surrounding Heart Breaker and Twilight. Haze was flying over the trio, dodging shots from the enemy spear guns, his horn was glowing bright and after a moment of flight he landed in front of Heart Breaker.
"Celestia! Faust! Luna! Medic!" Haze shouted, leaning his head down, aiming the horn, which shot magic straight into the trio. Crystal, Steven and Fallen Gear all ran in attacking the enemy. Shooting their guns blindly, defending Haze and the others.
"Cover Haze!" Crystal shouted. Bright Haze nodded his thanks and continued healing, the magic shot out of his horn, Spectra couldn't even see Haze's head anymore, it was covered in white light. White magic sparked about, making the area light up, surrounding the four of them in a white shield.
"Hold them! Let Haze heal them! Fallen Gears, go get a medic! Haze sure as shit can't cast alone." Crystal added, the pony nodded and ran, screaming out for help as he went.
Lauren Faust saw the shield from where she stood, the huge dome appeared in the middle of the battlefield, where the black Mo'ka lightning had struck. The shield slowly formed and magic sparked from it, unstable but pure.That was a rare sight, pure, unstable magic, there was no telling what it could do, and Lauren prayed for the pony who had cast it, but she only knew of one pony who cast pure magic. Haze. The queen ran forward and charged deep into the battle to look for Celestia, the shield was sparking loads and giving off a loud sound of magic, a loud, repeating hum. Faust found her daughters and shot at a Mo'ka about to attack her. The two sisters turned around to their mother and bowed. Horns still glowing.
"Mother. What is it?" Luna asked quietly.
"Haze, he is going to blow himself up. We need to stop him from casting that spell." Lauren
"But, why would he kill himself?" Celestia asked.
"He isn't doing it deliberately, I can feel the magic, it's a healing spell he is attempting, but it is going to be too big to control." Faust replied.
"Let us go then mother." Luna muttered and the three Alicorns ran forward toward the growing ball of white. But it was too late. The ball expanded once more and shot out in all directions, causing a huge wave of an explosion and giving a loud boom as it went. The three Alicorns were shot into the sky and pushed back onto the ground. The wave continued far into Canterlot. The force of the fall, knocking out Faust. The world was loud, but still went black.
Spectra lay on his side, ringing in his ears and blood dripping down his face, everything hurt and he couldn't move. Spectra felt himself screaming but there was no sound, just a white world and ringing. His body was weak and cold.
'Damn this hurts, hurts so much. This is certainly my death. Fuck.' Spectra thought to himself, screaming out again but again not hearing it.
'Rainbow. I need you. Why did you die! I love you Rainbow! I love you, I need you! RAINBOW!' Spectra shouted to himself, he wasn't overly sure if he was thinking, or yelling, everything hurt. Hurt so much.
"Spectra." A voice called, it was Rainbow. "Spectra. All you need to do is open your eyes." Rainbow called. Suddenly, the ringing stopped and the world went to black. The blood stopped dripping and Spectra could feel life again. Slowly, he opened his eyes. The world was white and cool. Rainbow was standing over him. Her hair long and clean, no marks or scars on her. Spectra had none either, he felt refreshed and healthy.
"Am I D-, am I dead?" Spectra asked, even his voice was pure.
"At this moment in time? Yes, right now you are." Rainbow muttered, she was smiling.
"Shit. But why? I mean, I am with you. But I should be defending on the battlefield. What happened?" Spectra shouted, confused.
"Calm Spectra, it is okay. I said 'right now you are', not forever. Just for this moment."
"What does that mean?"
"You died, but right now Haze is reviving you. You, Twilight, and Heart Breaker. But casting the spell killed you all. Brought you here, with me."
"But, where is this? Why are you here? How am I here, dead for only a moment?"
"Spectra, you have so many questions, but you don't have time to hear all the answers. You are only here for a moment, so listen close. No matter what happens down there, remember one thing. You must protect the Multiverse, even the dead are not safe from the enemy. So whatever happens. Protect. The. Multiverse. Follow Haze and Faust, they will figure out what to do. You won't like it, but you will be with me one day my love. Promise me though."
"Promise you what? Rainbow that doesn't make sense."
"Promise me, you will go with Haze and the others."
"Where?"
"I can't say. Spectra, when you die, you see everything. Past, present and future. I know everything about the Multiverse there is to know. You have no idea how much it hurts. Just promise me. You will never stop fighting the Mo'ka." Rainbow muttered, she was crying now, Spectra was confused but promised anyway.
"Good. Now go. Return to the fight. Always remember me." Rainbow muttered, her body was fading and Spectra could feel the scars and pain coming back to his body, no where near as much as before. But pain.
"Goodbye Rainbow." Spectra muttered, and was on Equestria again. The whiteness was fading and the sounds of battle returned slowly.
"Spectra! Guy! They are okay! Get some mages in there now! Faust is still down!" A voice shouted. Spectra passed out.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
"A man who won't die for something, is not fit to live"
-Martin Luther King. Jr.
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them"
-Lois McMaster Bujold.
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
-Winston Churchill.
Bright Haze was flying. The battlefield below him. Mo'ka and ponies alike fighting each other, near on everypony down there was bleeding or dying, but still they fought. Not giving up. The enemy had advanced through the city so all those inside were now fighting as well. Haze wasn't flying in the normal matter, he had been blasted upwards by his healing spell. Blood was splattered across his face and the scars of his body hurt, that white speck of an eye itched and the other was showing faded vision. As Haze flow through the air he relaxed, to an extent. There was no more he could do. Hopefully Spectra, Heart and Twilight had been saved. Hopefully. As Haze let his good eye close he felt the tug of something and his body change direction. Luna had flown up and grabbed him in mid flight and was now bringing him back down to the ground. He opened his eye and turned his head slowly, watching a red light slice into the Princess of the night. She grunted in pain but otherwise ignored it. Shooting a spell at the ground and causing a large explosion of black fire to fly up. Luna banked left and turned, heading toward Celestia, Faust, who was now getting up, and Dari. Luna landed Haze down and he flopped to the ground, not moving or attempting to get up, just staring at the approaching ponies.
"Haze. That spell nearly killed you.-" Faust muttered, her voice echoing. Darkness over took him for a second. "-We have to do it. For your own safety-" Darkness again. "-Haze? Haze! Stand back, I am going to heal him!" Haze passed out again but felt his body go light and the ground push away as he was lifted into the air.
"My Queen, Princesses. We can't defeat them can we." Haze found himself muttering, blood now covering his eye.
"Yes we can. Just have to keel fighting." Faust replied. The two sisters remained silent.
"For how long? How many need to die?" Haze asked.
"They will not die in vain, hold still." Faust replied, her blue magic sending out tentacle like strands of magic toward Haze. His body was rolled over and the blood dripped away from his face and into his hair.
"I am going in." Haze muttered.
"Hmm?" Faust asked.
"Into the Void. Not alone, I will need ponies. But ponies that know they may not return. At all." Haze added.
"An elite team to hold them back? We tried that. It didn't work." Faust grunted.
"No. Just a few pony volunteers who will go into the Void with me and to fight back the Mo'ka whilst I cast a spell that will destroy the Void."
"But that's impossible. I would have done that if it were possible, even so, destroying the Void would cause mass devasation to the Multiverse, worlds would be closer than ever. The technology actually there for interdimension travel, Interdimensional war! Best case would be every Universe ever, all pushed together into one space. Worse case? Well, I dread to think."
"Well its either the destruction of the Void and the true enemies, making way for some wars, or we let them win."
"It's an impossible choice." Celestia muttered.
"Well I am going in, whether it's fighting the enemy til I die, or destroying them for good. But make your mind up my queen. I am leaving as soon as I find ponies." Haze muttered, the spell stopped and his body fell. He picked up a gun saddle with his magic and charged forward.
Spectra gulped in air. Staring into the sky, pain shot through his body and the sounds of war echoed out. He stood, slowly. Seeing Twilight and Heart likewise getting back up. Spectra looked to his side to where wounds once were and physically watched them heal away.
"Fuck. We are alive!" Spectra shouted, spotting a line of red laser fire shot go over his head.
"Well, we better get back in the fight. Where's Haze?" Heart Breaker asked.
"I'm here! Guys!" Haze shouted from above. Spectra looked up to see the bleeding, scared Pegasus Siren flying over them.
"Haze. What are you doing. What's the plan?" Twilight asked.
"Gather weverypony up we know, Crystal, Dari, Fallen Gears, everyone! If you are with me, I have a plan." Haze shouted. Twilight and Heart nodded and they both ran off into the battle looking for the others. Spectra flow up to Haze.
"What are you planning?" Spectra asked.
"I, we. We, are going into the Void and blowing it up. If you are with me, we stay near the portal, you all keep the enemy of me whilst I cast, just before the spell goes off, you run." Haze replied.
"So you are killing yourself, again?" Spectra asked.
"Hopefully not. If I cast right I should know just before the spell goes off and be able to shoot it at the enemy. Then I can run with you."
"And if you fail the casting?"
"Then we all die."
"I'm in. But what of the effects of destroying the gap between worlds?"
"Well, Faust says that we either force all the Universes into one place, probably causing millions and billions of Interdimensional wars. Or we destroy all of reality. Maybe, I am only guess that second one."
"So either way we fucked up."
"Yeah, but at least we defeated the true enemies to the Multiverse. After this, people can murder each other to no end, they won't have the threat of destroying a Universe." Haze replied, then smiled grimly.
"Well, fuck. I will go get the others. How many do we need?" Spectra asked.
"As many as are willing to go. But if they don't, it's just me."
"Me,and you. And probably Heart, Dari. Ya know. All the ponies and people you had to get yelled at by the fucking queen to realize they will fight til the end with you."
"I didn't mean it like that, I mean. If no one wants to come. Stay here Spectra. I just need a few guards, dont die for me. Die old, not today." Haze replied.
"You really do put your life before all others don't you."
"Hey, if I fuck this up, you will be able to meet infinite possibilities of me. And you."
"Oh, joy." Spectra muttered and flow off. Leaving Haze alone to shoot at the enemy. Bright Haze just flow there still for a few moments, pondering on this plan of his. What if I didn't work, what if I did? The consequences the Multiverse would face with either side of the coin would be devastating, unless it wasn't the Void he destroyed..
"Yes, of course! Faust!" Haze shouted and flow backwards, toward the fighting queen. "Faust!" He shouted.
"Haze. What is it?" She asked.
"I don't need to destroy the Void, just the portal between the Void and the Multiverse." Haze shouted.
"It can't be done Haze, I have tried. For a spell that powerful you would have needed billions of years of practice, and more magic than anypony has ever harboured before." Faust replied slowly, quietly.
"That's why I need you. I need you, Luna, Celestia and any other free unicorns we have to store magic into one gem. Then I can take it once we get into the Void and cast. It should work."
"But still. You don't know what spell to cast."
"Well I have to try something Faust!" Haze shouted, horn burning white.
"Haze. Calm down."
"NO!" Haze shouted, he seemed to have two voices as his two eyes began to set alight in white flame. "WE WILL DEFEAT THEM! TELL ME THE SPELL." Haze added.
"Haze. I don't know. Really. We can't defeat the enemy, I thought with these numbers we had a chance, but look around. We are failing again. This time there is nowhere to run." Faust replied quietly.
"You created Equestria Lauren, started infinite possibilities of life and expansion. Yet you can't finish the threat of your land." Haze muttered, the fire dying away.
"I'm sorry Bright Haze. There is nothing I can do."
"Well, I haven't given up. If I can't close the portal, the plan is to blow the fuckers up again."
"Didn't you try that?"
"The explosion was their own magic, it did nothing to them. This time. They can't fight real; pure magic." Haze grunted, smiling. Spectra flow down from the sky, the others either flying or running behind.
"Ah, just on time. Mares, stallions, humans. We cannot won't this fight as you already know. And you already know we have lost a good deal of friends and lovers to this war. But today, today we end the enemy. They came here to destroy us, leaving their home, the Void, realitively undefended. Giving us the perfect time to attack. My plan is for me, along with you, if you are willing to join me, to go into the Void. I will cast a spell big enough to destroy the Void and you guys keep the enemy off me. Once i am ready to cast. You run." Haze said.
"Question." Twilight asked. "How do you know if the spell will be powerful enough?" She added.
"I won't. I can only believe the Mo'ka survive from the Void, rather than the other way around. So I will presume that once the Void dies, so do they. Hopefully." Haze replied.
"Well I am already in." Spectra muttered, stepping forward, gun aimed down. Heart Breaker looked to Celestia and nodded.
"I will also join." Heart Breaker muttered.
"And I" Crystal said, he appeared to be an arm short and had burns and cuts all over his body but still held a Decay Gun in one hand.
"Trust the Aussies to go first." Haze muttered, smiling. "Anyone else?" He asked aloud. Soon enough, all his friends volunteered to join in this dangerous mission. "Well then. Lets get to it. Grab weapons, clear a path. Ponies, we charge." Haze muttered, shooting gun and spell as he galloped forward. The group, lead by Steven, who ran forward, swinging the huge tree club of his as he went, ran through the enemy and allied forces heading toward the huge portal where the Mo'ka were pouring through. It looked as if the Void itself was leaking through, black trails were slowly forming on the ground and in the sky.
"Here we go!" Dari shouted, flying up and taking flight, jumping over a laser shot.
"Ready?" Haze asked.
"No. Lets just get this done!" Spectra replied. The Mo'ka running forward aimed their spear guns, the ponies and other creatures did likewise with their own weapons and began to fire. Dodging shots and attacks from the enemy. A few took hits but they kept running. Eventually passing into the Void and drifting into the silence again. The group just stood for a moment not knowing what to do. The Void was as empty as it should be. No sign of anything. The only sound was of the portal humming gently.
"Casting, just stay close to the portal and defend this area. I see them." Haze muttered suddenly, making Fluttershy jump.
"Hurry. Tell us when you're ready." Spectra replied slowly.
"Will do. If you guys get pushed back or whatever, just go back to Equestria. Now focus, here comes their next wave." Haze replied, then in the darkness the red lights of the enemy weapons glowed bright. The group prepared weapons and Haze's horn formed and began to glow. Magic leaking down.
"This. Is going to hurt. A lot." Haze muttered.
"Do you even know what you are casting?" Twilight asked.
"Not really, just, if you aren't fighting. Lend me some magic will you?" Haze asked.
"Of course." Twilight replied, horn already glowing. The Mo'ka forces were nearing and everyone ran forward to defend the portal.
"Here we go!" Spectra shouted and jumped into the fight. Wings flapping. Gun down. He gave of a volley of three shots toward the enemy, downing two straight off, the third shot blasting into one of the dead enemy's shoulder. The two pieces of Decay turning the Mo'ka to dust in seconds. Those who had close combat weaponry ran forward, cutting down the enemy and ducking and running under and over gunfire. Haze stood still. Horn glowing brighter and stronger.all the time. Every now and again Twilight stopped fighting and gave off some magic to him. Haze nodded and thanked her everytime. But still looked in deep pain. Grunted and closing his eyes every now and again, but held the casting.
"Be ready!" Haze shouted suddenly. Spectra turned and nodded, firing his gun again. He soon spread the word and the unicorns of the party moved back and began giving Haze magic.
"Move back! Move back!" Haze shouted, crying nearly. His horn was sparking brighter than had ever been seen and the magic ball covered much of his head. Twilight's horn began to glow purple as she cast her own spell. After a minute she let the magic out and blasted the enemy back. The others stepped back, Steven had one leg going through the portal, stepping back, he was obviously on edge.
"Go!" Haze shouted and shot. The Void went white for a second as a huge ball of white fire shot from Haze's magicly made horn. The group ran out of the Void, Haze turned and slipped. Falling. Spectra, Heart and Nick noticed his fall and turned to help him. Time seemed to slow down as Haze got up and the four began to run. The enemy following close behind, the spell had already stopped it's movement and was expanding in mid-air. Sparking energies out in white lightning. "Run! Go!" Haze shouted to his friends, galloping forward, the trio who had come back for him also turned, a few slipping but otherwise okay. They were so close to the portal, the sounds of the battle on the other side could be heard, only to be interupted by the sound of an explosion. Haze saw his life flash before his eyes, his life here. And Earth.
"Haze!" Spectra shouted and was blasted into the air by the spell, Haze was also lifted of his feet and flow straight over the portal, the closed shut under the pressure of the spell. The cries of the Mo'ka joined the sounds of the boom. Haze blacked out for a moment and only woke up when he felt the smack of his body on the ground.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." He muttered. Spectra stood up and ran forward, the spell was collasping into itself, after a minute of everypony lying or standing in silence whilst the spell disappeared. Once it did, Haze stood up, staring into the Void, it certainly hadn't been destroyed, but there was no sign of the Mo'ka. Nothing. Haze's horn began to glow, but after a minute, he shock his head, tears forming.
"Did we win? Did we do it?" Nick asked. Spectra was limping, as was Heart Breaker.
"Yeah we won. We won Nick." Haze muttered in reply and began to walk away.
"Where are you going Haze? Open the portal, we can go home." Spectra called to him. Haze turned, tears in his eye.
"I am so sorry Spectra, you should have left me. You should have gone home, all of you, you shouldn't have tried to help." Haze muttered.
"What the fuck does that mean?" Spectra shouted.
"Haze? What are you saying?" Heart Breaker asked.
"I'm." Haze paused, the gulped down, unclipping his gun saddle and letting it drop to the ground. "I'm saying, I can't. There is no magic to open a portal anymore. I can't find the magic."
"Hm?" Heart asked.
"I can't open a portal home, the magic doesn't excist anymore."
"So, we're stuck here? Forever." Spectra asked slowly.
"Maybe, I am not overly sure, but I can't cast a portal this side. We have to either wait for the magic to return, or Equestria to open a portal for us." Haze muttered.
"What the fuck have you done." Spectra muttered quietly. "We are going to starve out here. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE HAZE!" He shouted, spitting at Haze as he shouted. Eyes going red.
"Do whatever you want to me Spectra, I didn't mean for this to happen, you should have left me." Haze muttered and sat down, he looked to his friend then the floor, closing his eyes waiting for the punch that he expected. But nothing came.
"What's the point, at least I die with friends eh?" Spectra asked.
----Equestria----
Queen Lauren Faust stood at the portal as the group ran through, the enemy stopped pouring through and after a minute, the remaining Mo'ka, just turned to dust. Cheers of victory went up but not all was right, the ground were missing a few. Heart Breaker, Bright Haze, Spectra Speed, and that knife; Nick.
"Where are the others?" Faust asked as Twilight limped out of the portal. Twilight paused and turned to the portal, there was a loud explosion and the portal shut. "NO!" Faust shouted, running forward. She wasn't sure where she was running to, as the portal had closed, but forward the queen galloped, flanked by her daughters. Faust paused and began to cast, but everytime the spell failed, over and over she cast a portal spell into the Void, but over and over her horn stopped glowing and the spell failed.
"Mother?" Celestia asked.
"They are trapped. Haze hasn't destroyed the Void, he has destroyed portal technology itself, Universes can't get to each other anymore, and the Void can't get into the Multiverse. There isn't any technology to get from world to world, so Fallen Gears and his men are trapped here as much as Haze and the others are trapped out there." Faust replied.
"But how? I thought that was impossible." Celestia asked.
"It is, so that makes the situation even more worrying." Faust replied.
"Well, what do we do?" Luna asked.
"What do you mean, there is nothing we can do. I know we can't leave them, but we genuinely can't help them, if I can't open a portal, then we can't save them, they are stuck there, forever." Faust replied.
"Then we put whatever unicorn powers we have into fixing this and rebuild Equestria, all we can do is move on. They saved the Multiverse, and will never be forgotten in our history books. They are heroes, and will forever be the knights of the Multiverse, I hope we can save them, but until that day, may they rest in peace, knowing they saved us all." Celestia replied and moved off to tell Gears he couldn't go home.
"I am sorry Haze, I will do everything in my power to bring you four home, I swear it." Faust muttered, tears dripping down, she limped off toward Celestia, Luna following close behind.
The End
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
[This isn't actually a chapter, I just wanted to explain, or try to, explain the Multiverse in this story. As best I could anyway]
(I would've done it in a blog but I am too damn lazy to wait for my computer to start up again).
Right. So I don't know exactly how much I have covered explaining my Multiverse Theory in this or to any of you so I will just start from the beginning. I think.
So the Multiverse is, well everything. It is unlimited realities of, reality. Whatever happens in one Universe, happens billions and billions of different ways in billions and billions of alternate worlds and universes. The Multiverse is all of these unlimited realities, all bundled together into one, thing. So if for example. This universe we have say, bread. Another universe will be bread is blue, or green or yellow. And will keep going through every shape, shade and combination of colour imaginable. And that's just the bread. Hell because of these unlimited universes anything is possible. Including Equestria. Just think, in one version of reality. YOU ARE Celestia. And that whinning child on the bus this morning is Luna.
So if the Multiverse is unlimited, then the Mo'ka can't physically destroy the fabric of reality I hear you asking. Or not asking, that's the beauty of the Multiverse.
Anyway, the Mo'ka have their power of time and teleporting and all that crap. They can get themselves into the Void, being creatures of the Void. The Void is just the thing there to stop, other, things. Getting to close. So no two universes, universi? Anyway, so two realities can never touch, the Void is there. But things like the Mo'ka, and worse, were born in the darkness. Most are pretty harmless, like the weakest race of the Void would be the demons. But some, like the Mo'ka have a power to control the Void. Make it bigger, smaller. In doing so destroys universes.
To make this clearer, say you have a glass box full of water, it is full to the brink and you can physically put anything else in. But if you put some ice in there, the water overspills. So what if the ice could grow and shrink. Making the Void smaller, would allow water/universes to get closer, even in line with each other giving danger to all sides. And if it grows? Well the Universes spill out of the edge. Into the Void. Anything that was there dies and just becomes dust, floating in the darkness. So the Multiverse may be ever growing and unlimited, but if the Void just keeps growing. The choices of worlds will become less and less, where once you had a billion universes with different shades of pink bread. Suddenly the universe that invented the colour pink is destroyed. That's a lot of dead bread.
So the Multiverse is a brilliant but dangerous thing. And races like the Mo'ka, should be killed and destroyed. They only know death, why treat them any better than how they were raised and bred?
Leave and questions in the comments in case I have missed anything out. I will reply the answers and maybe in a week or two, dependent on how many comments I get I will actually do a series like this in blogs and stuff. Well, bye I guess. Back to the story. Which has I believe 8 chapters left. Then I really will leave the FotW series alone. If I do make another one, tell me I have gone insane and to focus on all the other half hearted crap I have shit out for you guys. :-/ bye
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Now I am not American, nor did anyone I know of die in the attacks on the World Trade Centre but it always hurts me whenever this day comes around. This chapter will be on all my fictions new and old so you will be seeing it a lot, those following me anyway.
I would like to thank those who saved survivors from the rubble of the twin towers that day and would like us all to remember everybody who died that day, civilians, firemen and police. Everybody who was killed and affected by the attack twelve years ago today. My thoughts go out to all those who died in the tower, planes and those killed in the aftermath of the bombings.
Thank you.
Legends of Equestria: DemonStorm
Well. Both new and old thanks here.
As always thanks to Crystalhero97, BronyDragon, Maverik, BrongGC, Sithjjf, Darkcloud, and many more. I couldn't thank you all enough, everyone of you helped make this story come to life. Without any of you, who knows where this could have gone. I will admit this one was hard to write,certainly harder than the last one. I really didn't want this to end, but I remember during the beginning. I didn't know how to continue it. I have grown attached with many characters of this series and I feel to have put rather a lot of time into this series, hell. I took nearly a year to complete, and I still have plans for more. Not with the same characters or time lines, but certainly the same Universe (or Multiverse, dependent on who you ask)
Now for once I am going to thank the characters of the series, many are dead or lost, but they still kept at fighting for their homes. They have developed and changed in the stories progression. So thanks to;
Bright Haze, the one who started this crazy ride.
Heart Breaker, the crippled Alicorn who's creator started the fans of this series.
Nick the knife and Steven the serpent, for without these two, I don't know where half the jokes would have come from and due to their creator, the story would have died before it grew.
Spectra Speed, without him, who knows where the romance started and where it ended. Also to who without the creator, I would only have one Australian to talk to, and no blogs to watch when I feel like a rant.
The Bloody Skull, I am sorry they didn't show up as much. And I am sorry you have been cancelled.
And thanks to all the others, standing by each other even though you saw death. Thanks for just being fighters, without any of you, Equestria would be a different place.