beast....and berserk
Celestia POV
It was after Talion saw us I knew something was wrong. I could sense his magic going wild and changing into something I didn't recognize at first while Luna reinforced the shield around us. I felt the wild magic that was forming in Talion starting to leak out of his body, giving off a black aura around him.
Noticing this Discord got into a fighting stance and summoned a sword as he teleported in front of talion and thrusted his sword forward as Talion put his hand in the way. As the sword made contact with his hand it shattered as Talion forced his hand forward until he reached the hilt of the sword, where he started to crush Discord's hand.
After but a moment Discord teleported away and healed his hand. Upon Discord looking at Talion, he in shock dropped the hilt of his broken sword. "That's impossible there's no way that is made of the purist darkstone it should have killed you what are you?"
(A/N - Darkstone is the name the metal that can hurt ringwraiths.)
Discord spoke as Talion disappeared and reappeared in front of him, hitting him with a barrage of punches before kicking him through a building.
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I was amazed as I looked at him and I heard Luna gasp as she said "It can't be." I looked back at him and took a closer look and I finally understood what his magic was turning into.
Discord POV
'How is he doing this?' I thought as I brushed off some rubble and walked out of the collapsing building. I then used my chaotic magic to create copies of myself and had them all lunged at Talion.
The aura around Talion turned into a sphere around him and burst turning all of my copies to ash and when I looked into Talions eyes they were pure black as he lunged at me like a crazy animal but he was too fast to dodge so I cast a shield that he cut through it like paper and he struck me and I flew several feet away upon landing I saw I was bleeding
'That's impossible not even the other ringwraiths I have fought have made me bleed, no matter how hard they tried they only thing that can hurt me is.' my eyes widened as I looked to Talion and their was no mistaking it he is using divine magic.
And as I got ready for another fight he was doing something and I saw the shards of my sword starting to move and the hilt flew to his left hand and the shards started to form the blade but they broke apart and started to form a new sword in his right hand while his morgul blade appeared in the left hand and I summoned a pair duel swords.
It was after a long few minutes did they finally decide to rush each other as they ran forward and before they reached the middle, Talion focused magic into his swords and swung them sending waves of energy at Discord. The right sword sent waves of ice and frost while the morgul blade sent his regular black and green energy, Discord managed to dodge the attack he was damaged when the waves of frost hit his leg freezing it.
"Damn it" Discord yelled as he lost concentration and his eyes widened when he looked back to see Talion swinging his swords right in front of him almost taking off Discord's head. If he had not escaped through teleportation to a nearby roof as he freed his leg from the ice as Talion landed on the other roof looking at Discord. Talion jumped to Discord's roof as he got into a fighting stance and slowly backed away as Talion ran forward, their swords clashing once more and Discord knew he could not beat him so he tried to fly away but it was too late as he was dragged to the ground.
Tempest POV
I woke up from the blood loss and saw Celestia and Luna looking at me with worry as they helped me up into a sitting position "Did we win?" I asked.
"Not yet but I think Talion is going to do that for us right now we need a way to calm him down when he does win." she said as I heard heavy footsteps and I saw Talions guards coming our way and they were carrying strange staffs as the captain of Talion's personal guard approached.
"What's going on here?" he asked as he knelt down and he gasped softly as I followed his gaze and I saw I no longer had a left leg and right arm. I began panicking but he cast a spell to calm me down and I turned to Celestia and Luna. "What happened to me?" I asked them.
"It was Discord he used powerful spells that forced us to block, but we did not have enough time to protect you and the others." They said as they cast another spell on me "This will keep any pain at bay for the moment right now we have to worry about Talion." she said as my eyes widened and I looked around the corner to see Talion was going berserk on Discord and his eyes were black.
"Yes that is a problem if we used the staff we would only be able to hold him a place for a minute or two." he said.
"That is all we need me and Aiko can calm him down she should still be inside and unharmed." I said as a few of then went to get Aiko.
"Ok we have a plan now we have to wait for the right moment to intervene." he said as the others began to wake up and we told them the plan.
3rd person POV
After Discord was dragged to the ground, Talion held up his icy sword as he yelled and plunged it down but before he could finish Discord off, a spell knocked him off. Before Discord could recover the bearers used the elements on Discord and in his weakened state he could not defend himself as he was turned to stone.
Talion's personal guard started to surround him and when they encircled him them slammed the staff on they ground as they shined with magic as they formed a cage that contained Talion and he struggled to get free as Aiko and tempest put their hands on the cage.
"Talion, it's us we're ok." Tempest said as Talion turned around to them "It's ok you don't need to fight anymore." she said and Talion's was starting to relax "Just calm down." Tempest said as Talion's eyes returned to normal as he passed out.
2 hours later Tempest POV
Talion was in the hospital and everypony knew Talion fought and beat him and they were cheering his name we were in his room, where Celestia told us to meet after we were checked out. Most of us were in wheelchairs and needed to be pushed in because of our missing limbs and Celestia walked in "Good evening my little ponies." she said.
"Good enough." Applejack said with a sad tone as she looked her missing leg.
"The reason I called you here is because of Talion." she said as we looked at him he was in a coma after he came back to his senses. "If he does not remember anything i don't want you to tell him," and before any of us could object she continued. "I know you don't want to lie to him but it is for the best, when he saw you girls injured he tapped into a power that was locked away inside him it is very dangerous. Thankfully it has been sealed away again but just from feeling that power his own power has grown greatly, when he wakes up he will be stronger both physically and magically and need time to get used to his new strength. So I will talk to him first and come up with an excuse and think of a way he beat him without his surge of power." It's true his power was unstable that's a fact who know what could have happened after he killed Discord.
We all nodded in agreement and decided to keep it a secret for now and we were wheeled back to our rooms.
1 Hour Later Talion POV
I woke up with a major headache, "Oh my head it feels like a Warhammer dropped on it" I said to myself as I rubbed my head as someone opened the door and walked in, it was a white mare wearing a nurse outfit along with a hat marked with a red plus on it and she looked up at from her clipboard only to gasp seeing that I was awake.
"Your awake my name is nurse Redheart, I have been looking at your condition while you were in your coma" she said and I smiled.
"Thank you for doing that so I'm in a hospital?" she nodded "When can I be released?" I asked.
"Right now if you want if you follow me to the front desk." she said as I grabbed the railing of the bed to help myself up but as I pulled on it and it broke in my grasp and I gave out a nervous chuckle.
"Just add that to my bill." I said as she gave a chuckle of her own, nodded and wrote something down while I got up and we walked to the desk finding Celestia was waiting there for me.
"Hello Talion." she sad as I greeted her.
"Hey Celestia," I said "so what happened I don't remember what happened?" I asked.
"Well after you saw their wounds you charged forward, you and Discord were evenly matched and somehow you broke your limits and unlocked some of your power, but somehow it caused a magic discharge which weakened both of you and allowed us to imprison Discord and also from our test when you were asleep we found you are stronger both physical and magically we don't know if it is permanent or not but we should put a exercise plan in place so you can learn to control it." she said and I agreed, then I remembered something.
"Where are the girls?" I asked and Celestia frowned and showed me to a room where they were and I saw many of them were missing limbs I saw Pinkie and Aiko were ok but when I looked to the others I was horrified. Rainbow Dash was missing her wings, Applejack was missing a leg, Fluttershy an arm and Rarity was missing a horn, Twilight looked like a wreck her arms and legs were in casts and her horn was gone. Tempest was being wheeled in and she was missing a leg. The horns I could fix with artificial ones like tempest but the other I don't know where to start and I sat down on a nearby chair as I looked at the girls "How could this have happened?" I asked putting my head on my hands.
"It wasn't your fault." Twilight said as she moved causing her to grunt in pain as she moved and a nurse came to help her.
"You should stay still or you could make it worse for yourself." the nurse said as she got her comfortable.
"Sorry" she said still in a little pain as she nurse gave her some painkillers to help her relax.
"But I should have been there when it happened if discord had not stopped me when I was heading to ponyville I would have gotten the elements and headed back this wouldn't have happened" I said as Rainbow intervened.
"What do you mean if he hadn't stopped you" she said.
"After you girls left the throne room i was still thinking of the riddle he said and i found out it was in ponyville but he met me halfway there and we fought we were evenly matched until he copied himself and he snuck up behind me and stabbed me in the back" I said and everyone looked at me in shock.
"You fought on even grounds with discord before you fought him in ponyville" Celestia said and I nodded.
"We were pretty evenly matched when we fought I can show you where" i said as she nodded as I teleported me and her to the battle ground and she looked around at the destruction we caused during our fight as many of the trees looked like the came from a frozen tundra and they ground was covered in sand and much of the ground around us looked like it was set ablaze as Celestia continued to look around i could tell she was thinking.
Celestia POV
'If he could cause this is his normal state what would happened if he went berserk again?' I thought as I looked around the frozen trees and burned ground.
"Something wrong?" Talion asked, "You look worried."
"I'm fine." I lied but it was for the greater good.
"Ok we should go back." he said as we teleported back.