Shadowing Times

The Fight Begins

There's gonna be a quite a bit of changing Pov in this one

Dusk
Not again.  Not again... I hear Dad storm through the house, bumping into things and swearing. I tremble, still injured from last time he was angry...he doesn't even have to be drunk to beat me up anymore- I must have done something wrong. Why do I always do something wrong? He hates me. I hate me. Why does he make me hate myself so easily?
"Dusk! Get the fuck out here!" he yells, stopping otside my door which is locked. I'm frozen in fear, tears running down my cheeks. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Please. Please. Please. A blast of magic hits my door, knocking it to the ground, my infuriated father standing just in my room. I whimper and try to edge away- my magic is strong but if I used it against him...it wouldn't be pretty.

"I told you to get here," he hisses, using magic to keep me in one place whilst also making a knife levitate. Close your eyes. Imagine you're somewere else...

Wait.  This isn't real. He's dead. He's dead. Wake up Dusk- wait up!

A blade presses my throat and tears burn myeyes as the stentch of Dad's alchol filled breath fills my nose.
"You're scared of me anyway," he laughs, acididly. 
"Yes," I whisper. "I am. But it doesn't matter. You can't hurt me anymore. I realize there are just fucking dreams!" He rises the knife and I screw my eyes closed.

"Dusk! Wake up!" a voice yells.

My eyes shoot open and I breath in, softly. 
"Morning," I say, rubbing my eyes.
"Are you okay?? You looked like you were having a nightmare! Were you having a nightmare because that doesn't sound f-" Pinkie bursts out, likely unable to stop until AJ nudges her.
"Um..I'm fine," I reply. "Yes I had a nightmare but I'm used to it."
"That doesn't sound like 'fine'," AJ states. I shrug.
"Well...I'm heading to the portal," I say, swinging my legs out of bed and picking up the stupid crutches I'm meant to use. 
"And we're going after Sombra- he's causing more and more issues each day," Pinkie says. "Good luck with the portal!"
"I'll need it," I mutter. "I made it so even fricking Discord can't get through."
"Must be pretty strong then if it stops Discord," Raph comments with an impressed look. 
"Yup," I mutter. It's what makes this so hard.

Raph

Dusk heads to the portal whilst we go to fight Sombra, still not looking entirely convinced he can do it but he can't fight with a broken leg, arm, ribs and countless cuts and bruises. Unbalancing him would be easy and the last thing  we need is for the one person who can reopen the portal dying.

The girls have all 'ponied up', Dash, Twilight and (reluctantly) Fluttershy are flying up to get him from behind whist we take him from the front. 
"Has Dusk died yet?" he asks with a sneer, gaze landing on us as we approach. Pinkie glares at him, crossing her arms. "No, then. Once I've gotten rid of you then I have more work to do." I instinctively tighten my grip on the sais, scowling at him. I do not like this guy- not at all. He's even worse than the Sombra at CHS. 

We begin to fight and, despite it being 8 vs 1 he is holding his own pretty well. He uses magic to blast Fluttershy into Dash knocking them both into Twi, making all three hit the floor. This is not going well...

Sunset

I honestly thought this would go better but honestly it's going  as well as Pinkie's plan to recreate 'Up' with her house. Not well at all. How the actual heck is he beating all of us- Dusk held his own. Then again Dusk has dark magic so a lot of the spells would counteract eachother. A blast hits me- knocking me back. I'm too frozen in shock to scream, even as I plummet towards the icy water tooo far down. Even if I survive the fall I'll drown.

"SUNSET!" I hear Raph yell, everything falling apart at once.