"welcome Twilight Sparkle." my sister said with a small tone of pride in her voice as she and the other elements walked in.
"I thank you for the welcome Empress Eclipse." she started. "may I ask why we were called?"
"oh? Did I pull you six from something important?" my sister then asked with a raised eyebrow.
"we are just hoping to get home in time for the festival of blood Empress Eclipse." my sister gave a small smile.
"why of course. Should all go well you should be off by tomorrow." she responded as the six looked at each other confused. "you are here to meet... somepony special. I will send a guard to get him."
"could I possibly stop by my old room Empress? I need to locate an old spell book that I wish to reread." I froze as Eclipse nodded and she went off to her room.
"so who are we meeting empress?!" Rainbow Dash asked out of excitement. "royalty! A being from another planet?!" she's not far off from the second one.
"no. you are meeting a... person that has been here for some time now."
"person?" they all then said in confusion as they looked at one another.
"yes, person. Calling them a pony would be an insult to them." she then said as I sighed. "they are going to be very important in the future for the fate of the world. We need him to trust us for when the full story is given."
"is this another one of your lies until the truth is needed like Twi has told us about Empress?" Applejack spoke up.
"that is correct. Although I am surprised she knows about it."
"she said you did it often for her while she was growing up." my sister gave a small chuckle as she remembered the times she had. Soon though she froze before she gave a smile.
"it appears Twilight has met Benjamin." then suddenly one of the tallest towers exploded before a form fell onto a roof and into the courtyard.
Benjamin's POV a few minutes earlier
I laid in my bed as I waited for Eclipse to send a guard to get me. Yesterday was a good day for sword training and I was glad to hear I could at least train with my sword when not in the presence of Eclipse or Nightmare Moon. I found a combat style using my powers along with my blade to be able to attack from two directions at once. Always keeping my opponent on their toes, or hooves, until they were worn out so I could finish them.
My ass was handed to me so many times though by Shining Armor. He gave me no mercy at all and he seemed to hold a massive grudge towards me for some unknown reason. What? I had no damn idea I just said for some unknown reason. I also met his wife princess Mi Amora Cadenza. She only liked to be called Cadance by her friends though and I learned first hand what happened to those who weren't her friends. My arm still hurt from being set back into place.
I heard the door suddenly open as I kept my eyes closed until the guard let me know it was time to come... although it proved not to be a guard when I was suddenly thrown out of my bed and into one of the bookcases. I opened my eyes out of pain to find it was the purple unicorn from the picture. "die human!" her horn lit up again as I willed my sword to come flying over. It came flying towards the unicorn who quickly heard it coming and stopped her spell to dodge the sword. Catching it she sent a spell at me as I blocked it with my blade. Purple sparks went flying around me as I held the blade with both my hands.
"who the fuck are you?!" I yelled as she growled. My eyes widened as sparks started to come from her horn and I knew it was a high powered spell from the book about those who could use magic. I quickly charged her as she looked at me in surprise. I used this surprise to my advantage and leaped over her as I landed next to the bed. I spun around to try and cut her... only for a large projectile to appear in my vision... I barely had enough time as I enhanced my body with durability before an explosion occurred. The last thing I saw before I clenched my eyes out of pain was me flying and falling out of the tower.
I opened my eyes as I hit the hard ground as a small amount of blood spewed from my mouth as I gasped out of pain. The burn wound on my back still being sensitive to pain as I looked up in horror as the unicorn leaped out of the hole she had created with a horn sparking even more than before. As she fell I watched as she thrust her head downwards as a large beam came flying down on me.
Quickly reacting and knowing I wouldn't be able to evade I brought my arms up as the broken brick and cement quickly formed a dome around my body. But it didn't stop the beam as it continued to break the dome as I quickly moved to the farthest side of the dome before using some of the broken cement to create a foothold as I pushed out of a broken part of the dome as it collapsed before it exploded. Propelling me further as I rolled on the ground. I quickly got to my feet as I realized I no longer had my sword. It was lying by the unicorn's hooves as I noticed she was still looking at me with rage in her eyes. I could only hope the explosion didn't badly harm any of the journals that were under the bed... then said bad collided with the ground as it splintered into chunks as my own journal flew out of the badly damaged pillows and tumbled to the ground. I narrowed my eyes as I looked back at the unicorn only to roll to the left as another beam came flying at me. Knowing I might get into trouble for this I thrust my right arm out as I crouched down and she became encompassed in a green glow before I pointed my arm up. She shot upwards like a bullet and soon reached the same height of the tower before I slammed my arm into the ground and she created a sonic boom before she hit the ground. Dust was kicked up as I hoped I would be forgiven for what I did. I just hoped she stayed down the most, to be honest...
and I proved to jinx myself when she dust was cleared by another beam flying at me at a faster speed than the one before. I had no time to react as it collided with me and proceeded to blast me through several walls before I tumbled to the floor inside of the dining room. I could tell I had several ribs broken and was surprised to find I hadn't broken my spine as I stood up. I looked through the halls to see her charged at me. Pressing my palms to the floor I picked up all the debris before thrusting my arms forward sending it all flying at her.
She only proceeded to create a shield causing my attack to do nothing but scratch the shield a little as I quickly got to my feet and ran as fast as I could. This wasn't a training exercise... I was fighting the student of the most powerful being in existence at the moment and even I knew I wouldn't be able to win. I ran through a pair of large doors as I turned slightly and thrust my left arm behind me forcing the doors shut... only for them to be blown apart as the unicorn slid to a stop inside of the hall. I stared wide-eyed as yet another powerful beam was sent to me. I stopped and brought my arms over my face creating at least a small shield from the debris before I jumped to the right.
The wall becoming destroyed as I used the dust and smoke it created to run further down the hall. When I reached the end of the hall I spun around to see her charging towards me as I looked at the ceiling to see cracks in it. This time throwing my right arm at the cracks they glowed a darker shade of green as more cracks began to appear before I thrust downwards at the rampaging unicorn. Thankfully the structure started to collapse starting near me as I watched her stop out of shock before a look of rage took over her face just before she was covered by the debris.
I started to breathe heavily as I flinched from the pain in my left side. I grabbed it with my right arm as I could a cold familiar wetness that was blood before there was a loud roar of rage. "you have got to be kidding me!" I stated as the debris exploded outwards. I ducked to avoid a large piece of it as I spotted the unicorn standing there with even more rage in her eyes.
I quickly started to run to the right as I knew there was now only one way to end this... and that was to find Eclipse. Unfortunately for me, I was in a part of the castle I knew nothing about as the only route I knew to the throne room was in the exact same direction that I had collapsed hall. I don't even know why I ran to the left to be honest when I should have tried to get to Eclipse in the first place!
I quickly jumped through the nearest door as I heard another beam being fired and quickly closed the door and took a very quick look at the room. Finding it was a library full of cobwebs I quickly started to climb the bookcases as the wooden door was blown into splinters. I watched from the shadows as the unicorn stalked into the room. Her eyes filled with rage as she looked from left to right before her horn glowed and a light appeared next to her. "where are you human?! I know of your tales! You cant hide from me forever!" I could hear her yell as I, as quietly as I could, moved around the top of the bookshelves getting a few close calls before I heard a loud clicking noise looking to where it came from I saw the unicorn scowl as a very large spider approached her from out of the shadows... before it was blown into blue goo as her horn flashed. I ended up almost falling as I quickly pulled myself back up... only for a few books to fall to the floor as I looked at the unicorn to see her spin around and look at the fallen books before my eyes widened as her head darted up at me.
I quickly pulled myself up as a small explosion hit where I used to be hanging caused the bookcases to start a domino effect. I jumped from the top of one to the next until I was caught off balance and tripped and fell between two bookcases. It collapses on top of me as heavy books buried me. I laid in the pile of books in pain as I grit my teeth. Even I could tell I was going to be walking with a limp after all of this was done and I couldn't move anything without a massive amount of pain except for my right hand.
Soon I heard magic as a massive weight was taken off of body before the books began to levitate off of me one by one... revealing the face of my assailant as she looked at me with narrowed eyes. Her horn soon started to spark once more as I moved my hand as if to snap my fingers but held it as I let the power build up hidden under the heavy books. "goodbye... human..."
"boom." I then simply said as she looked confused until her eyes darted to my right hand as I then snapped my fingers... creating a larger burst of sound than ever before as I was consumed by my own attack. Soon my ears stopped ringing as I looked above me to find the open night sky. I moved my eyes slowly to the left and right to find that the entire building had been destroyed. I slowly moved my arms as my arms struggled to be even moved. I pushed myself up as I used a destroyed bookshelf to pull myself up. I looked around and saw no sign of the unicorn so I expected her to be stuck under the rubble. I started to slowly edge my arm along the bookcase before I heard a jump... before I cried out in pain as the palm of my right hand was skewered into the bookcase before I couldn't breathe. The unicorn was holding me against the bookcase with her hoof as she had a look of rage in her eyes.
She was bleeding all over her body as I could see chunks of rock and wood sticking out of her body. Her eyes told it all as she started to press harder on my throat... "die..." she said through gritted teeth as I started to black out before suddenly the pressure on my throat disappeared and I slid down until I screamed out in pain as the chunk of wood in my hand kept me up just a few inches from the ground. Suddenly the wood was torn out of my hand as I fell onto my ass. Soon though Nightmare Moon's face filled my vision as the black in my vision slowly exited out of my eyes. She was looking me all over as I glowed the same color as her magic. I could see the unicorn struggling in the air by Eclipse's magic as Eclipse simply looked at me impassively. The 5 other ponies from the picture stood next to Eclipse as they looked at me in shock. "are you alright Benjamin?"
"should be asking that... to my ribs..." I told her as she gave a small chuckle before my head fell down limply... the pain finally becoming too much for me...