Step by step, Emma went higher and higher up the staircase her legs starting to hurt, but something telling her to keep going.
After a while, she came to the very very top of the palace and was told to go stand in the center of the room where the shadows were moving.
Stepping onto the circle a light came out and hit her sensing the dark magic and the crown.
As this happened, in the throne room, the doorway down started to open again.
"Hey guys look!" somepony called out snapping the others out of their arguing.
"Quickly," Jack said breaking the barrier "We have to get down there and save Emma."
"Wait!" Sarah said "I thought the lock only came undone when whoever was down there wasn't down there anymore."
"You're right," Twilight said using her magic to search for Emma but couldn't find her. "So where is she?"
Just then a guard came in telling everypony something was happening on top of the roof of the palace.
"The Crystal Heart's chamber..." Twilight said eyes wide "That where she is and why the door opened."
"Where?" everyone asked as they all rushed outside.
"The first time we were here, Spike and I had to find the Crystal Heart and it lead us to the top of the palace where Sombra had hidden it" Twilight explained running to the courtyard and turning to look up to the top of the palace where the crystals had turned black and were growing a bright light shining and a silhouette of something was in the middle of it.
"EMMA!" Jack and Suzy cried out eyes wide.
At a rather fast pace the shadows raced down the walls of the palace and snatched the Crystal Heart from it's place and took it back up.
"Discord poof us up there now!" Sarah said turning to the Draconequus who, without arguing surprising, did just that.
In the Crystal Heart's Chamber, as Twilight had put it, the Six, Discord, Spike, Shining Armour, Cadence, Skyla, Sophie, Billy Sarah, Eric, Suzy and Jack popped up and saw their fellow friend and family member and the dark shadowy outline of King Sombra before them, all surprised by Emma's new look.
Instead of her plain white but beautiful looking ankle length dresses with white slip-on-flats, and their hair in high (upbraided) pigtails, like her sister, and looking like a five year old should be...
Emma now looked like a young lady in a long black silky split-at-the-left-thigh dress, a red tie around her waist, Sombra crown on her head, bright red high-heels on her feet, a pink see-through scarf placed over her shoulders, a choker around her neck, and black crystal earrings, and her hair had grown to three times it's length it was before.
"EMMA!" Jack and Suzy cried out running over to their daughter but was knocked back and hit by dark magic tying them up.
"Jack, Suzy!" Eric and Sarah called out running over to them to try and help get them free while the six, Discord and Shining Armour made a defensive like ready to attack if need be, Cadence was looking after the kids.
"Hahahahahahahaha! Not so strong and brave now are you boy?" Sombra's voice rang out around the room aiming this question to Jack.
"Sombra! You have ten seconds to return my daughter back to normal or else..."
"Or else what?" Sombra said coming out of the shadows but still didn't seem fully there. "You'll freeze me with your ice magic? Well hate to break it to you boy but One that won't work since I'm not really here and Two you're not in a position to do that anyway..."
"Grrr... Why are you doing this?" Eric said getting up and drawing out his sword getting ready to fight if need be.
"I want to get back home of course," the Tyrant King said rolling his eyes mumbling about how naive they all were.
"And what exactly would you do once you get here?" Shining Armour asked strongly.
"Let me come back and you'll find out little Prince..." Sombra stated.
Everyone looked to one another silently asking each other what to do, when they heard Emma scream in pain.
"The longer I wait to come home the longer little Emma here will have to go through this..." Sombra said grinning showing his teeth an evil look in his eye "But you can choose not to answer anyway, because as soon as the Crystal Heart has turned completely black I will be able to use the shadows and come through myself. But that will take a few hours at least. So... What's it going to be?"
This news made everyone look towards the Crystal Heart which even though it had only been a few minutes had already lost some shine.