private Darkness over Equestria (RP)

[Unicorncob 5,696]

"Very well." Thorn said coldly, glancing at Fuhror briefly, annoyance flickering in his gaze. "I shall leave you to consider my offer. I shall leave one of my guards stationed here, outside your door for when you are ready for a lengthened tour." With this, he left, barking an order to one of his ten or so guards. The guard by the window left the field of vision of the occupants of the building.

 

"That, I hope, won't be interrupted by some arena fight," Tsunami added to Love, annoyance in her tone. He shrugged, grinning broadly at her. He glanced at Amore and nodded once.

 

"Really, you did impress me out there, fighting Rift." Love said. "And, despite my earlier suspicion of you, I am willing to offer you a position. Fighting is what really counts here, after all."

 

"Says you," Tsunami muttered, and scowled at Mediant who was slinking out. Mediant shrugged at her, glancing at Amore.

 

"Hey, my guards are trained and are nice," Mediant said to Amore. "So, y'know." He shrugged and trotted out. Tsunami waited until Love was out of the room as well, to make sure he wouldn't attempt any last word with Amore. She glanced at Fuhror, and gestured at him for the two to leave Amore, whom she directed a curt nod towards.

 

"Those three," she muttered to him. "Damn them." She mused--her ire had long been increasing, and with the insult of them offering this fresh recruit a position near them, despite the fact that Amore had been taken to her first--Izumo had been right in that sense (for once), and she certainly deserved better than Thorn and his lackey Love stomping over her in such a manner. They weren't even good leaders! Thorn was interested in nothing except power, and Love was just greedy, and Mediant... she didn't even know if he deserved to be called a leader. She glanced at Fuhror, who, alone, she respected--somewhat.

 

"You'd make a better leader than them," she informed Fuhror, sulkily. "Damnit. One of these days..." her voice trailed off. She was treading dangerous ground.

Malum

 

"A wise decision, mademoiselle," Malum purred, bowing his head, "I'm sure you'll come to make the correct decision.

He caught the glare of annoyance from Thorn, and responded with a flick of the eyebrow and a smirk.

 

He noticed Tsunami's gesture to leave Amore alone, and he agreed that may be the right decision. No point in giving her any undue pressure.

"We shall give you some time to rest and think," he told the bedridden mare, before leaving the room.

 

He gave Tsunami a smirk upon hearing her comment.

"It seems we have something we're both in agreement with, non?" He chuckled, and put a hoof on the mare's shoulder, "If that mare comes into my corner, it'll be almost guaranteed."

[Commander Tangent 861]

Lunar dug his talons even deeper before ripping them out. The centaur was likely blind now, but still had his other senses to help him. He felt bad for the other creature. He had taken the gift of sight from him. But to defeat such a large opponent, he had to disable him. He kicked off and got some distance from his enemy, watching his movements.

[Reaver 350]

Centaurs

 

@@Unicorncob,

 

The centaur stared at Tyra for a solid minute. The silence stretched on. Finally, very suddenly, his flail whipped out, crashing into the ground beside her. "I am a warrior, not a pony," the centaur boomed. He did not seem to be trying to insult Tyra, he seemed to be stating this as fact. He began flipping his other flail expectantly and watched her warily, waiting for her to move first.

 

@@Commander Tangent,

 

The centaur launched himself at his retreating foe. He struck out with bare fist and hit the griffin. He grinned and let out a roar, and, sensing Lunar despite his blindness, attempted to follow the griffin's flight.

 

@@Little Red,

 

Strider glanced at Red. His eyes lit up with pride for a moment. "It might work," he said after a moment. "But this fellow here--" said 'fellow' hit Strider hard in the side with the handle of his spear. Strider grunted, pained, as the force of the blow sent him rolling in the dust. He got up in an instant and attacked the centaur. He hit his shield, and used the force to bounce back to Red. "He'll come after us. Listen, the centaur Caliber is attacking seems to be almost done. Help him finish that centaur. I'll distract him." Strider nodded once at Red, and turned back to the fight.

[Unicorncob 5,696]

The centaur stared at Tyra for a solid minute. The silence stretched on. Finally, very suddenly, his flail whipped out, crashing into the ground beside her. "I am a warrior, not a pony," the centaur boomed. He did not seem to be trying to insult Tyra, he seemed to be stating this as fact. He began flipping his other flail expectantly and watched her warily, waiting for her to move first.

Tyra

 

Tyra watched as the flail smashed into the ground, and the centaur gave his answer.

She snorted and lowered herself down, as if preparing to pounce.

 

"I am a warrior, not just a pony!" She yelled back, readying her axe and charging toward her opponent. She turned her head and went for an attack when she was close enough.

[Commander Tangent 861]

@@Reaver,

 

Lunar grunted. His whole left side hurt now. But he would not go down so easily. the centaur was blind. Likely he was relying off of sent and sound. Lunar came up with another crazy plan, this time using the Centaurs weaknesses to his advantage. Opening his wings, he flew up into the air. making sure to maintain distance from the centaur. After gaining considerable height, he flipped and flew down towards the back of the centaurs horse half. He was sure to make as little noise as possible. If things worked. he would open his wings at the last second and sink his halberd into the Centaurs back. It was likely he would not survive the strike.

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber growled. this was too much time to be wasted on a single opponent. 

 

he went for a vault, once again. and as he sailed over the centaur's back, he aimed a slash at the back of the centaur's neck.

 

if this hit, it would certainly incapacitate him. and then he had the archer to worry about.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

*Centaurs*

*Red & strider*

 

Red nodded to her friend Strider as she dashed past the centaur, the behemoth turned to swing his weapon at the mare until Strider jumped between them once again. "It's you and me." He called out at the centaur.

 

The centaur swung it's spear out, sweeping the ground with it aiming for Strider. The stallion evaded backward from the swing a small cloud of dust lifted from the ground following the spear head.

 

The small mare dashed toward the centaur that was facing Caliber. She jumped up holding her sword to impale the centaur around the waist. Red's sword found its mark and cut through the centaur's flesh along side his spine. He yelled out in pain trying to shake red off and remove the sword from his back, the mare managed to sway herself with expertise staying on his back with her sword still embedded in the centaur while his movements only made the injury worse.

 

The centaur collapsed to his knees breathing heavily with his gaze focused on Caliber, he growled at the pony clearly livid at his condition but he didn't have the residual strength to even lift his own weapon. Red meanwhile jumped from the centaur and the archer in the back to aim at the mare who had just severely injured one of his allies. He knocked an arrow and released it at the mare, fortunately for Red the arrow embedded itself into the ground under he stomach.

 

@@Unicorncob,

 

As the mare charged forward at her opponent and swung her axe forward at him, the centaur easily blocked her with his shield and cocked back his shield. The centaur swung his shield forward in an attempt to shield bash Tyra. (Tyra can dodge this)

 

 @@Commander Tangent,

 

 

As lunar dove down toward the centaur below, as if he were a bird of prey swooping down for his kill, he opened his wings at the last second but still drove his halbred into the centaur. The blade of his weapon was barely protruding out of the centaur's stomach as he fell over on his right side, he gasped in pain as he begun coughing up blood. (will take a whole post to remove the weapon)

 

@,

 

As the centaur was collapsed on his knees panting heavily, his vision getting blurry from the damage and blood he had lost. Caliber leapt up managing to jump over his back taking a swing at the centaur's neck and managed to make a deep laceration that ruptured the centaur's windpipe. The behemoth's eyes rolled back into his skull as he fell forward face first into the ground dead. 

 

*Ironeye*

 

Ironeye was tiring of the battle before her as she her horn begun glowing once again, sparks flying from her horn as she begun charging another fireball aiming at the archer in the back. Her horn erupted in fire with the mass of fire then quickly shot from her head and sailed through the air at the archer. The fire ball hit the centaur hard causing him to stumble back slightly, once he recover he screamed in fear and pain as his fur had caught fire. He begun slapping at his torso putting out the small flames and embers.

 

Captain

 

The captain that had been hanging back with the archer flared his nostrils angrily as he snorted at the failure of his unit. "That's it..." He snarled as he begun picking up momentum toward the group. Soon he was charging at full speed, the ground shaking within the proximity of him with every hoof hitting the ground. He charged past the entire group and went straight for the mare in the back of the group. As he reached her he raised his large hooves above her and brought them down at her. 

 

(Is a bit graphic)

 

 

His hooves contacted the mare, the weight and strength of the centaur causing her four legs to break with an audible cracking sound as he body was driven down onto the ground. The captain stepped back from the mare chuckling at what appeared to be a completed objective. Ironeye was bleeding severely from many wounds where the bones of her legs protruded from the skin, she was coughing up blood from several crushed organs. 

 

 

 

 

*Radiant*

 

After the centaur and Radiant stared at one another breathing heavily the centaur finally made another attack on the stallion. He lifted his sword over his shoulder and begun swinging it at Radiant. Radiant easily dodged the attack and quickly attempted to counter by floating each sword to either side of the centaur. One sword cut into the centaur's flesh causing another deep laceration on his side, the centaur how ever managed to smack the other sword with his shield hard enough to break it out of Radiant's magical hold and it flew to far from the stallion to grab it with his magic again.

Edited August 5, 2015 by Chip Circuit

[Unicorncob 5,696]

As the mare charged forward at her opponent and swung her axe forward at him, the centaur easily blocked her with his shield and cocked back his shield. The centaur swung his shield forward in an attempt to shield bash Tyra. (Tyra can dodge this)

 

Tyra's axe bounced off the centaur's shield, dazing her slightly. She shook her head to gather herself, not really expecting her attack to be blocked so easily.

 

As she went for prepare for another attack, she found herself being pushed back by a shield to the head, dazing her again. This was not her moment.

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber landed, breathing a sigh when the centaur was felled. he looked around for the next opponent. 

 

"c'mon, now. avenge your teammate." he said everyone, prodding the dead centaur. "or are you all too scared?"

 

he raised his sword, and waited for someone to attack.

[Alex Van Gamer 230]

 Until the battle with the centaurs started, Alex wasn't quite sure what to think. And, even though the diamond dog seemed to have wanted to put a blade in really any opponent the group came across when first starting this journey, that wasn't so much the case at the moment... What was different this time... The height. Usually the fights she came across were with other ponies, so Alex was always looking down.. Having a much taller opponent now just made her think about... him...

 

So now, she was stone shift, with everything seeming to go in slow motion... The fighting, the yelling, the horrific death. It seemed to take centuries in her mind to process it all until suddenly, the pony who had warned them all about these large warriors... was brutally murdered several feet in front of her.

 

This seemed to be the slap in the face the diamond dog needed but never wanted... A death of a teammate... She may not have known the mare all too much, but having to witness another death on the defending side was too much...

 

Alex shook her head to clear all the frightened thoughts she still might have spiraling in her head as she reached behind her back to grab her Buster sword. As she unsheathed her blade, she took a deep breath, taking a moment to shift emotional gears, before charging towards the Captain. Only vaguely remembering somepony say to attack at the sides, that's what she planned to do. She swung her blade as hard as she could, running a long the side of the massive beasts. Hoping to cause some damage.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

*centaurs* 

 

As Alex finally chose to join the fray she charged forward heading straight for the captain who was still busy watching Ironeye die in front of him. Next thing he knew he felt a sharp pain on his side as a large blade rend through his flesh. He yelled out in pain as he spun around swinging his large sword out at the side where the pain radiated from. (Alex can dodge this swing)

 

All the centaurs already having their attention locked on current targets ignored Caliber's taunts as to not turn their back on their foe. All except the archer who turned his gaze to the shouting Stallion.

 

As the chaos continued the archer took aim with his bow with an arrow notched on his string, he released the arrow and it sailed through the air missing the stallion entirely.

[Chip Circuit 1,842]

*Red and Strider*

 

The small mare let out a sigh as she saw two of the Centaurs fall but jumped at the stampeding sound of the cantaur captain charging straight for Iron eye, only to then stomp on the mare with no mercy for the pony. Red opened her mouth in horror as she had just witnessed a team member fall in combat, even though Ironeye did not make a good impression she was still one of the team. 

 

Red's anger slowly morphed into anger, her rage took over and she charge straight for the captain who was now facing off with Alex. She yelled a battlecry similar to Tyra from her rage and jumped up at the captain's ribs while he was focused on Alex. Her sword hit its mark leaving the captain with a deep laceration, which once the flesh moved from his movements of pain she could clearing see a rib visible from the wound. 

 

The captain yelled out swinging his sword above the ground to attack both his opponents at once. Both the dog and the mare leaped over the blade with ease.

 

Srider was still facing his centaur praying that red would assist him with his behemoth now that two were down, but his prayers were unanswered when he saw her dash after the captain who made his appearance into the fight. "Alright, no matter, I will find a way to manage like I always have." He said looking up at the centaur.

 

The stallion rushed the shield and quickly jumped to the right trying to bypass the shield. (woo crit lol) The centaur tried to meet the elder pony with his shield with a shield bash but Strider managed to jump to the side avoiding the shield and manage to get behind his defense. The stallion then ran underneath the centaur holding his blade straight up rending the centaur's underside, blood poured on top of him and as he came out from under the centaur it dropped to it's knees screaming out in agony with blood pooling on the ground quickly. 

[P-Jay 1,987]

caliber grinned at the archer, who's arrow whistled by his ear. 

 

"alright, then, lets go!" he advanced straight at the archer, raising his sword, and preparing a vertical slash.

 

something told him something bad had happened, but he wasnt focusing on that.

[Unicorncob 5,696]

Tyra managed to shake herself out of her daze rather quickly. She really hadn't been expecting such an attack, but now she knew what might be coming.

 

"A cheap trick," She grumbled, then smirked and ran back in for a slash toward his torso, "But it will not stop me so easily!"