Mage gritted his teeth together. "Why am I not surprised? But... still..." thought Mage. Then, his rage got the better of him... "WHY DON'T YOU FIGHT ME ONE-ON-ONE INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE A COWARD AND HIDING BEHIND YOUR MONSTROSITIES?!" exploded Mage as he yelled this at the top of his lungs. Regardless. He had another fight with more monstrosities on his hooves. He quickly summoned up thousands of swords and sent them all flying towards the two monsters coming at him. If the monstrosities just continued to charge forward, they would be skewed by the swords and would more than likely be defeated just as quickly and just as easily as the other two monstrosities Mage had to deal with.
The two dragons flew up to avoid the swords and moved fast. Silent said "I don't fight with ponies who waste my time and are weaker than an ant." he smirk as he left the area.
Teleporting to the Mage, BladeRunner used his magic to teleport the mage to the dojo on the mountains. he then shot a powerful, very small beam at one dragon, killing it as it sliced through the rotted flesh. He summoned his regular claymore and as the dragon made the physical contact, he jumped up and stabbed it in the head, plunging the sword into the brain. he then used a demolition spell to turn its entire head into ash. He then teleported away to the dojo where he would meet the Mage personally.
"well i must say Levi seems to be taking his sweet time..." Azure was starting to get impatient so she decided to bounce on the clouds to keep her mind off things.
"well excuse me! if I can be a brutal insane killing machine then i'm pretty sure i can bounce on some clouds just to kill some time! and no not literally!"
"well i'm not used to your sarcasm. i could be sarcastic and still sound funnier." she continued bouncing on the clouds.
All of a sudden, Mage found himself in a different location. He wasn't even sure where he was. Although, it looked to be some sort of dojo or training area. He noticed the alicorn from earlier that tried to kill him there as well. He immediately took out two more swords and took a defensive stance. "What, The Crystal Empire not good enough to kill me there?! You want to take me somewhere else so you can pin me up like some trophy or something?! Sorry, but, I don't intend on dying easily!!" stated Mage. ((Sorry but he's not going to trust you that easily. Saving his life or not. :derpe)
BladeRunner went up to Mage and slapped him silly, just to get him to pay good enough attention, "As you know, I have not killed anyone just yet, my demons did.I have a plan in action. Now then, I will tell you it if you'd just shut the hell up and put your weapons away. Clear?"
Mage did put away his weapons, but seemed to continue to glare at BladeRunner. "I still don't trust you. But if you want to tell me this 'plan' of yours, then I'm listening" responded Mage
"The lives that were lost I had trapped in my Soul Lantern. So that way when the opponent is dead and the hellfire dies down, I can redeem by sacrificing one life."
Mage wasn't sure what BladeRunner was trying to say here, but, he had a bad feeling about what he meant. "Do you mean... you're own?" queried Mage
BladeRunner sighed, "Yes, I mean my own. By sacrificing myself the lost souls will regain their bodies completely healed and restored, they will think that it was all a bad nightmare or something. Once they are redeemed though, I don't know what will happen t me, its not like anyone would miss me or anything," Blade did state that in a little sad tone, but, his spirits were high, "I'm sure something god will come along the way though! Besides, I need some king or somepony that can train me in the arts of any forms of magic. I do not care who, I just want to put an end to the Nightmares once and for all, even if it kills me."
Hotshot had been listening to the whole conversation He was sad for Blade and what he wanted to do, sacrificing himself would be an honorable deed " Look , I don't even like you but if you're willing to help us save Equestria than your cool with me " Hotshot said trying to sound friendly He swooped down next to the pair
Mage... was honestly shocked. He didn't expect this. From this pony who had seemed to become evil. Mage was going to say something, but, he decided against it. He hadn't exactly been the best "comrade" to Hotshot either. The only thing that seemed to come out of his mouth... was... "For what it's worth, I sincerely apologize for abandoning you. It's just... well... things weren't exactly looking very good. Besides, I was pretty much completely out of magic and wouldn't have been much help anyway. That's still no excuse for what I did though. So, like I said, I'm sorry. Whether or not you accept my apology or not is pretty much up to you" stated Mage to Hotshot
