open The Looming darkness

[Child Of Darkness 285]

Caras reacted with speed and raised an absorption barrier to soak up the magic. Mixing it with his own, Caras fired the beam back at Discord, with the full strength that was fired at him, plus the addition of dark magic made the beam very powerful.

 

"You may have a new bag of tricks, but you methods have become predictable. You may not believe me, but your moves are easy to predict. You cannot escape me this time, and your son cannot help you."

[~Sole~ 852]

Discord smiled "silly filly, chaos is never predictable!" He said as he moved quickly and formed a magic tube that took the blast and redirected it back at caras through the other end. After that he teleported behind caras and swung at his head with his tail.

 

Sole remained grimly quiet, not taking his eyes off of the fight for even a second.

[Child Of Darkness 285]

Caras wing was clipped by the blast, flying was off the table now. As for Discord, Caras turned into smoke to avoid Discord's tail. Caras had of new trick of his own to use.

 

"Magic shall not be used, this shall be settled in the ways of the old world. Meele combat, only."

 

Caras activated the shields ability and removed all magic from any life form within the shield.

 

"Your magic, and my magic is gone. The only way either of us is going to get their powers back is to kill each other. As per the rules, I am obligated to grant you a suit of armour and a weapon of your choice. Choose your weapon and armour, and the spirits of the gods shall make it so."

 

(No magic, just Meele combat.)

Edited January 9, 2014 by Child of Darkness

[~Sole~ 852]

As caras disappeared Discord jumped back and chuckled "changing things up eh? Well, I don't know about armor. But I'll use a 3 foot katana. Because I play too much final fantasy." He said with a grin, imagining fighting with a giant sword like that.

 

Sole smirked "that dumbass" he mumbled jokingly

[Drago Ryder 641]

As Tempest drifted through his subconciousness, he was thrust into a vision of one of his possible futures. The cyan alicorn was on trial for killing Luna, and everypony he had ever known had practically said the same thing: that he was some power hungry fool who should be killed. Tempest felt like he had been punched in the gut, when he heard a strange voice in his head.

 

"This is what will happen if they find out. This is what happens when you are weak. I can give you the power you need, though." It said. A black flame then appeared infront of Tempest.

 

The cyan alicorn was slightly surprised. "Can I trust you." He asked. "

 

The flame intensified slightly, and Tempest could've sworn the thing was chuckling. "Of course." It said, as the flame surrounded Tempest.

 

Tempest felt a intense surge of energy that was stronger than anything he had ever experienced rush through his very being. The flame was fully absorbed into his body, and the cyan alicorn simply stood in a white room. "It's time for me to return." He thought, his demeanor becoming much more intense. Tempest groaned as he woke up, and noticed Minath and Dark healing him. "Thank you, though I didn't exactly want you two to get involved." He said.

[Child Of Darkness 285]

As caras disappeared Discord jumped back and chuckled "changing things up eh? Well, I don't know about armor. But I'll use a 3 foot katana. Because I play too much final fantasy." He said with a grin, imagining fighting with a giant sword like that.

 

Sole smirked "that dumbass" he mumbled jokingly

"Then you may have your very, impractical, large weapon. Seriously, why the hell is your weapon three feet long? A 11" weapon is the perfect size. Who am I to argue, your choice is your chocie."

 

Caras indicated to the shield and made Discords choice of weapon appear.

 

"You first, Discord."

[Minath Khalsi 195]

@,

 

Minath felt a strange tingle in her spine right before Tempest awoke. Something had happened while he was unconscious. 

 

She shrugged.

 

"Well we can't win without you. But at the moment all we can do is wait. Caras and Discord are in a bubble, and I'm pretty sure Discord wants to stay in there."

[Drago Ryder 641]

Tempest was slightly surprised by this, and mentally cursed. "I have to get in there. Discord'll die if we don't do anything." He said. When he tried to get up, he felt a immense pain shot through his body.

 

Dark put a paw on Tempest, and held him down. "You have to stay calm. There's no telling what that poison did to you. I know you want to help, but there's nothing you can do now." She said.

[~Sole~ 852]

Sole didn't turn around as tempest awoke, but rather kept his focus on the battle before him. "You won't interfere, this is their fight. Besides, there's no way your getting through that barrier on your own." Sole said calmly

 

Discord smirked as he grabbed the weapon. "It's not as impractical as you might think caras. It has all the skill and finess of a katana..." He said, before slashing at caras' chest without even moving "and all the deadly range and reach of a spear." He finished, before slashing again at his throat.

[Child Of Darkness 285]

If first slash, scratched Caras armour, the second slash did not touch him.

 

"It may have long reach and be nimble, but its size gives me an indacation of your attacks, before you swing lands."

 

Caras moved around Discord at high speeds as to confuse him, before he jumped high and slashed Discord in the face, causing a cut and dangerous burns.

 

"You like my sword? It burns with a fire hotter than hell itself."

[~Sole~ 852]

Discord ignored the pain of the cut and hit him in the head with the pommel of his sword, jumping back as he did. "Your fast... Looks like I've gotta go faster." He said, before he began to run around caras, gaining more and more speed. Soon enough, discord was causing dozens of afterimages around his foe. "What's wrong caras? Too fast for you?" He commented as he darted around him. He suddenly began to slash him as he blitzed around at lightning speeds.

[Child Of Darkness 285]

The blow of the blade made Caras stumble for a few seconds but he could still recover in time. As Discord darted around Caras, he had an idea of how to seriously hurt him. Defelcting most of the slashes, Caras tried out his idea. He begna to focus on Discord movements and found a small oppertunity to attack. As Discord moved, Caras put out his blade in Discords path, which caused discord to move it his blade.

 

(Sorry for any writting errors, my internet is lagging causing errors.)

[~Sole~ 852]

( didn't notice anything major lol)

 

Discord cursed as he moved toward the blade, but attempted to sidestep it at the last moment. He wasn't fully successful as he still received a shallow cut on his chest, but he managed to swing his blade at caras' throat as he passed by.

[Child Of Darkness 285]

The blade gave Caras a surface cut on the throat, but it was nothing to bad.

 

"You react faster than I thought you would discord. But their is one flaw in your sword technique, and if you do not spot it, it will be the cause of your death."

 

Caras used heavy but precise sword attacks, strikeing at the wrist are to try and knock discords sword out of his claw and also to try and cut it off.

[~Sole~ 852]

Discord tried to move out of caras' range, but the sword still nicked discord's wrist, knocking the blade out of his talon. But before the sword could hit the ground, he caught it with his tail and sliced upwards at caras' face. "Your downfall is your arrogance caras. Now enough talk, it's high time you died." He said angrily

[Child Of Darkness 285]

Caras caught Discords balde with his own, and held his balde in place.

 

"You think you know me so well. The truth is, you know so little."

 

Caras cut clean through Discords sword, slicing it in half. After which, Caras sliced off his claw and a small part of his tail, effectively disarming him.

 

"You know nothing of what I am like. And it shall remain that way. You will die this day Discord, and your false son will be here to see it all."

[Drago Ryder 641]

Tempest grit his teeth in frustration, and sighed. "Fine. I won't interfere." He said, as he pushed Dark's paw off of him. The cyan alicorn then stood up and trotted away. He then walked into Luna's old room, and smiled slightly. "If only you were here." He thought. Tempest then laid down on Luna's bed, and realized the last time he had sleep. "I might as well." The cyan alicorn then closed his eyes and let the sweet embrace of sleep take hold.

 

Dark sighed, as she watched Tempest leave. She then turned her attention to Minath. "What do you think is going through his head this time?" She asked.

[~Sole~ 852]

Discord howled in pain as his claw and tail were easily sliced off, but he quickly grit his teeth and jumped back. "You really think so caras? Let me tell you something I've learned from my time as a reformed villan. No matter how powerful you are... you won't win. You may be faster, stronger, smarter... And You may be a god of magic... But evil people like you and me lack something. Something crucial, yet so simple." He said, as he summoned chaos energy around himself, building it up as much as possible. "Self sacrifice, compassion, honor, bravery... To put it simply, what you lack is love. Call it corny if you want, but the matter of the fact is that love and compassion will always triumph over fear and darkness... That's why you can't win. And even if you kill me, the bonds between those ponies out there will dwarf even your great power." He finished, before giving sole a sad smile as his body began to glow. "Forgive me..." He mumbled solemnly with tears in his eyes as he put all of his power, magic, emotion and even life force into a single beam of pure energy in a last ditch attempt to kill caras.

 

Sole watched helplessly as his father sacrificed his life in attempt to save the others. "discord... Dad... you... YOU BASTARD!! STOP IT, PLEASE!!" He screamed, tears now streaming down his face. And All he could do is watch.

[Minath Khalsi 195]

@,

 

Minath sighed, glad she knew the link better than Tempest. She could feel his emotions without alerting him of her presence.

 

"He's tired. He's almost content with what's going on. It almost feels like despair," Minath's eyebrows wrinkled together "but not quite."

 

Minath turned to Discord and Caras' battle.

 

@,@@Child Of Darkness,

 

Oh no buster. You're not leaving us that early.

 

Minath began preparing a spell to miniaturize Discord, so when the bubble broke it would appear as if he vanished. Presumably, because he had died. Caras seemed to be like the type to let his foes suffer to death, and leave them on the brink. If Minath miniaturized Discord and then turned him back into stone, then his life force would be preserved. The downside being that with Discord being so weak they might not be able to get him back out, or having to wait for him to regain his strength in his stone prison to break himself out, which could take millennium.

 

While preparing the spell she tried to keep her magical residue to a minimum so if Caras did notice, which hopefully he would be too busy to, he would take no notice of the casting. Minath waited for the bubble to break.

[Drago Ryder 641]

Dark shook her head. "That doesn't seem like him." She said. The dragoness then sighed. "He isn't the type of pony you would expect to give up."

 

As Tempest slept, the mysterious entity within his mind was gaining strength. Soon, it would be strong enough to overpower the cyan alicorn in which it dwelled, but it would have to bid it's time, for now.

 

Xena watched Tempest's unconscious form drift within his mind. "Whatever you do, my friend, never lose hope. If you do, the looming darkness has already won."

 

Baz, and the other aura beasts watched Xena, and walked towards him. "Do you think he'll be ok. He's suffered so much." Cella asked, slightly worried.

 

Icarus glanced at the dragoness, and shook his head. "He should be fine. The light and darkness within him are perfectly balanced, but we all know how easy that is to change." He said. "All we can do is help him cope with his troubles."

 

Vaketh nodded. "I agree with Icarus, which, for me, is surprising." He said. "Tempest should be fine. We should all get some rest, though."

 

The other aura beasts all nodded in agreement, and slept in a circle around Tempest's mental form. They all knew what their tamer was capable of, and gave him there strength as they slept.

 

(Here's a hint for the being in Tempest. It is said to leave nightmares in it's wake.)

Edited January 13, 2014 by Kyurem

[Child Of Darkness 285]

Discord howled in pain as his claw and tail were easily sliced off, but he quickly grit his teeth and jumped back. "You really think so caras? Let me tell you something I've learned from my time as a reformed villan. No matter how powerful you are... you won't win. You may be faster, stronger, smarter... And You may be a god of magic... But evil people like you and me lack something. Something crucial, yet so simple." He said, as he summoned chaos energy around himself, building it up as much as possible. "Self sacrifice, compassion, honor, bravery... To put it simply, what you lack is love. Call it corny if you want, but the matter of the fact is that love and compassion will always triumph over fear and darkness... That's why you can't win. And even if you kill me, the bonds between those ponies out there will dwarf even your great power." He finished, before giving sole a sad smile as his body began to glow. "Forgive me..." He mumbled solemnly with tears in his eyes as he put all of his power, magic, emotion and even life force into a single beam of pure energy in a last ditch attempt to kill caras.

 

Sole watched helplessly as his father sacrificed his life in attempt to save the others. "discord... Dad... you... YOU BASTARD!! STOP IT, PLEASE!!" He screamed, tears now streaming down his face. And All he could do is watch.

Caras knew what was about to come from Discord, he had a thought that it might happen, but never expected it to happen. Caras could also see Sole outside of the shield, clearly broken over the sight he is witnessing. Caras gave a Sadistic smile and turned his eyes back to Discord.

 

As Discords beam fired, Caras was ready to try and take the brunt of the attack. For a time, Caras negated most of the magic but it was over powering. The energy broke through Caras defence shattering his sword into large fragments and doing the same to his armour, Caras himself had only broken his sword leg and cracked his horn.

 

After all this had happened, the shield dropped and Caras powers returned to him. But their was a problem, the blast had left Caras unable to walk and his magic was not recovered enough yet for a teleportaion and the smoke form seemed to not be working. All he could do was wait.

 

(School and my part time job have been delaying me. I have about two to three hours a day of free time, so I may be on less.)

[~Sole~ 852]

(Well that sucks. Hope you get some extra time off soon.)

 

Sole hadn't moved from his position at all, his eyes fixated onto caras. "You've taken away everything I love you bastard, it's time you die." He said darkly, as chaos energy began to build around him at an incredible rate. "My dad gave everything to stop you... Now I'll finish the job." He said with incredible resolve

[Child Of Darkness 285]

@, 

 

"Look at you, you've see what I can do, yet you continue to resist and fight. I have to say, I admire your dedication to see the world safe. Truly I do. But you have to have realised by now that you cannot win. Your faulted sighted is what will always hold you back."

 

Caras sadistic smile crept back onto Caras face, before he descended into a fit of laughter. The pain in his body was slightly over-powering, he could not keep his conscience much longer. After a short laughing fit, he fainted on the floors of Canterlot.

[~Sole~ 852]

With a growl of rage sole flitted to caras, his sword already in talon as he swung down at his neck with all of his hatred. But he suddenly jerked to a stop mere hairs breadth from caras' throat, tears pouring down his face. "I... I can't do it." He said sadly, collapsing to the ground next to him in defeat. "He's taken everything from me... But I can't kill him. I promised her..." He mumbled

[Drago Ryder 641]

The flame in Tempest's mind saw the cyan alicorn with the aura beasts, and began to have second thoughts of it's plan. "Maybe I could be redeemed." It thought. The flame then floared closer to the group, and took the form of Nightmare Moon. She then simply laid on the ground.

 

Tempest woke up to see the aura beasts around him, and laughed slightly. He then trotted out of the circle to see Nightmare Moon. "I was wondering what happened to you." He said, smiling slightly. "You can stay if you want."

 

Nightmare glanced at Tempest, and nodded. "Thank you." She said. "Do you think they would accept me, though?" She asked, casting a glance at the aura beasts.

 

The cyan alicorn laughed slightly, and nodded. "Night, you're technically a part of who I am now, so I doubt they wouldn't." He said. "Anyway, I should be waking up soon." Tempest then disappeared from his subconcius.

 

Nightmare smiled slightly, and slowly made her way to the aura beasts, more specifically Icarus. She then simply curled into a ball and fell asleep.

 

Tempest woke up, and quickly galloped out of Luna's room with a reignited confidence. He had sensed a shift in power, and felt the need to investigate. He entered the throne room and noticed Sole on top of Caras. The cyan alicorn then formed a pair of dual swords in his hooves, as he rembered everything Caras had done. "This ends now!" He muttered as he flew towards the two.

Edited January 15, 2014 by Kyurem