//------------------------------// // Icy Situation // Story: The Legend of Zelda Friendship is Magic 2: Return of Majora // by MetalBrony823 //------------------------------// This blizzard was only getting worse every minute, but Link found another shard of the Fierce Deity's Mask. Of course, this was far from over, they all had to get hack to the Crystal Empire, for it is in terrible danger at the moment. Twilight was so worried about his brother, sister-in-law, and her adorable niece. She hoped that they were all OK, but didn't want to know what would happen to them. The fields of snow were slowly piling up, as tall as Link's knees, but that didn't stop him and his cronies from continuing onward. No, it would take a lot more than heavy snowfall to stop them all in their tracks. "I hope we ain't too late to save the Crystal Empire." Said Applejack. "We all hope that." Said Rainbow Dash. "It will only be a matter of time before Shining Armor, Cadence, and Flurry Heart turn into a family of dead, living statues." "Don't say that!" Twilight scolded her. "That's not helping!" "Sorry." "Man, this blizzard is only getting worse." Link panted while still running. "We need to hurry." "What about that scary Varnok?" Asked Fluttershy. "What if he pops up and attacks us again?" "No." Mathayus said. "He is much too noble for that. He knows he cannot win a fight against all of us. Varnok is rather afraid of you, Link. For a good reason." "Good. Niw he knows not to mess with the Hero of Twilight like me." "I'm already getting colder." Storm said "I know, sweatie." Said Epona, running next to her son. "Just stay close to me and you'll be fine." "Okay, mommy." It was a rather long run, but they made it back to the Crystal Empire, and there were so many icicles hanging from the roofs of many buildings in town. "This is bad." Said Pinkie Pie. "Look at the houses." "You're right." Said Lyra. "This weather is getting worse. Look at those icicles." "Keep moving." Said Link. He and his friends began running through the streets, then the young hero refilled his lantern with one last bottle of oil. Hopefully, this oil will be long enough to sustain through this blizzard horrible blizzard, and guide him and his friends to the castle in the center of the city. Down the road, something popped up from the heavy snow, very thin and icicle-like monsters. They had horns on the side of their heads, and they had long, sharp spears made of ice being wielded by their hands. "Whoa! Who the heck are these guys?" said Rainbow Dash "Chilfos. These guys are tricky, but I've dealt with many of them before. Normally I took care of them with my ball and chain I got at the Snowpeak mansion ruins." "Get ready, guys." said Twilight. She and the others readied themselves for another fight. "I hope they haven't invaded the castle." Another fight broke out, and it was a little tricky. since they were made of ice, Spike easily destroyed some of them by using his fire breath to melt them into puddles. Applejack easily kicked one of her opponents in the face, almost shattering the demon-like head. One of them threw their javelin at her while she was distracted trying to kick the one she taken down into little pieces of ice cubes, the sharp icy javelin was about to hit her from behind where Lyra came to her aid, and deflected it with her magic shield. "You'll have to do much better than that!" Lyra shouted to it. The creature was trying to form another javelin in it's hands when Lyra ran up to it with lightning speed (Not as fast as Rainbow Dash of course, but still fast). When the weapon was just about complete, Lyra shot magic beams at it, only to make him stagger backward from each blast it had taken. Of course, that wasn't the green unicorn's main intention. No, she was trying to keep it out of balance so she can wait for the perfect moment to kick it in the face endless times until it cracked into little tiny pieces. "Nicely done, Lyra." said Twilight. "Thanks." Then the unicorns and Twilight continued firing magical blasts at any chilfos that was trying to attack or kill them. Link fired a few bomb arrows at some of these enemies in a safe distance so he wouldn't blow himself up by mistake. So far, he killed at least five of the enemies, leaving only the lower halves of the bodies. Colin, since he didn't have any bomb arrows on him, he blocked many attacks with his shield. These chilfos were trying to kill him the old-fashion way, which was swinging their javelins at him, or trying to pierce his small body with them. Despite looking a little overpowered, Colin was able to duck underneath a chilfos, and promptly decapitated all three in an aerial spin attack. "Link! Give me some of your bombs!" Bon Bon demanded. "I know know if that's a good idea Bon Bon." Link replied. "If you're not careful you can blow yourself up." "Just please give it to me." Bon Bon begged. "Okay." then Link promptly gave her three of his bombs, and the earth mare threw them at three of the chilfos, completely obliterating them all from the impact of the blasts. Lyra looked at how impressively her best friend handled these baddies. "Wow, you know how to throw those bombs." Link remarked in amusement. Bon Bon flushed at his compliment. "Thank you. I took a few years of buckball in elementary school before." "Oh yeah. I was in there too." Lyra remembered "Except you used your horn most of the time." "Come on, I'm a good thrower." said the green unicorn. She picked up a snowball with her magic, and it was the size of a bowling ball. She held it in both her hooves, and threw it at one of the chilfos with her left arm. The ball hit the center of it's head, knocking him down to the snowy ground. "See? Like I said. I'm a good thrower." "I know, I was just messing with you, Lyra." "Now is not a good time to mess around." said Mathayus. He punched a chilfos in the chest, easily breaking it with his immense strength. "We have a problem to deal with at the moment." "Right!" Both Lyra and Bon Bon exclaimed in unison, then they continued fighting off these dastardly chilfos. It took about five minutes, but when it was done, they continued going to the Crystal castle, but on the way, there were more Chilfos sprouting from the ground like zombies. There was no stopping Twilight, Link, Rainbow Dash, or the others from rushing to the castle this time. When they got inside, they saw that the fires were put out, and everyone inside of the building was frozen solid in ice cubes, even the children. Everyone gasped in horror about what just happened in here, and even the fires were turned frozen, and they were supposed to burn through the flames! "Oh no." Twilight said. "What happened?" Then she thought of her brother, sister-in-law, and niece' well-being. "My family!" then she tried rushing up the steps to look for the three royals. "Twilight, no!" Link rushed up to stop her. "No!!" Spike went after her as well, running next to Link, then her five closest friends followed posthaste as well. "Twilight, come back! You don't know what's in here!" “Hmm, this should be interested,” Discord remarked with an interested loom on his face before rushing up ther himself. The purple Allicorn didn't heed the Hylian's warning however, and starting looking for princess Cadence. Room after room, she couldn't find her anywhere. "Oh, where are you guys?' she muttered to herself, becoming more worried that ever. The next place she looked was the library, and saw even the librarian was turned into a pony Popsicle. Searching high and low for princess Cadence, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart, she just found a bunch of more frozen ponies and fires. "Twilight, please slow down." said Link. "No, I have to find my family!" Then she had a thought: "The throne room!" and she came on rushing through the corridors again, went upstairs, and found Shining Armor and Flurry Heart rushing downstairs. "Shining!" "Twily!" he recognized her. He hugged her so tightly it felt like he was constructing her. Flurry Heart hugged her face afterwards, but didn't let go of her. "What happened? Where's Cadence?" “Is she alright?” Asked the Master Of chaos. "She's in the throne room, but- but- she's not herself." Shining explained. "There's something wrong with my poor wife!" "What do you mean?" said Spike "You... have to go see for yourself." said Shining Armor. "Come on!" Then he ran back up the stairs with Flurry on her back, and Twilight followed after him with Spike on her back. Link and Colin followed posthaste up the long stairs, and Link opened the throne room doors to reveal Cadence sitting on her throne. The whole room was covered in ice and icicles were hanging from the tail ceiling. The princess of love was silhouetted, but when she stepped up front, she looked completely different than what she normally looked like. Her skin was a very pale blue color, and her mane and tail looked like they weee made of ice. The mane was pulled backhow Zapp’s mane from the Power Ponies looked. Another feature she had was a bodysuit of dark blue that was sleeveless at the front arms, and had glass slippers on her feet. Her eyes were glowing a bright light to go with her somewhat evil grin. One thing for certain was: this was absolutely not the Cadence everyone knows and love. “Cadence?” Said Twilight in complete and utter disbelief. “Is... is that you?” The princess of Love made a small giggle of wickedness, and replied: “of course I am, my dear Twilight.” And then, Mathayus, Colin, Mathayus, Epona, Storm, Lyra, Bon Bon, And Big Mac came to the room in complete worriment. “Why wouldn’t I be?” “You’ve... you’ve....” Twilight was trying to think of a good way to say that she has been turned evil. “Changed?” Said Cadence with a raised eyebrow. “That’s... a light way to put it.” Said Colin sheepishly. “Well, Colin, I have indeed changed. I have become extremely powerful. More powerful than I can possibly imagined.” Then she began cackling evilly, and her laugh echoed in the room. Flurry Heart was scared and hugged her father tightly, feeling like crying over how scary her mommy had become. “What happened to you, Cadence?” Asked Spike All of a sudden, Majora appeared next to her. “I created something special in her. Something.... sinister.” “Majora!” Link said, readying himself for another fight. "What did you do to her?" "A rather funny story." Just then, Cadence bowed to him in respect, as if he was a king of some sort. "My lord." she said. "When you arrived in the Crystal Empire," Majora began Earlier Cadence was helping as much subjects keep as warm as possible in the freezing temperatures inside. "I'm trying the best I can to help you, everypony." she said. "Shining, can you take Flurry Heart and help the ponies in the library. I have to figure out a way to protect the Crystal Heart from any danger." She felt Shining Armor hug her tightly. "I can't leave you here alone. What if something bad happens to you?" "Don't worry about me, honey." Cadence urged him. "The Crystal Heart is more important, and I suspect this is Majora's doing. If he gets his hands on the Crystal Heart, there's no telling how disastrous it will be. It will be like King Sombra all over again, but maybe worse. Now, take Flurry heart and go. I'll be okay." Shining Armor was very reluctant to leave his love like this, and then Flurry clung to her mommy's neck, urging her that she doesn't want to leave her. "It's okay Flurry. Mommy will be just fine." The young baby was certainly feeling doubtful of this, and bowed her head in sadness. "We'll be back for you, my love." Shining said. "Come on Flurry, we've got ponies to help downstairs." He rushed out of the Throne room while holding Flurry in his left arm. Cadence went to think of a solution for how to solve this blizzard problem, when Majora appeared in front of her. "You?!" she shouted at him, recognizing the monster for what he was. "How dare you come to my castle like this!" "Tut tut, Cadence." said Majora smoothly. "I do not want to fight. I want to give you an offer." Cadence shot a few magic beams from her horn at him, but he easily deflected them with his hands. "You have no place here. Leave this place at once!" Just then, Majora threw a s magical bulb of purple magic at her, but it seemed to have little effect. Just then, Cadence felt a very sharp pain in her head, like something was about to pop out of her skull. "Agghh! What's... Happening!? "You are part of my... elite now." Majora chuckled. His eyes glow a purple along with his evil grin, and Cadence felt a change inside of her. A blue, unitard formed on her body, sleeveles on the front arms, and her skin turned pale blue, and her mane and tail turned white. Then her eyes turned purple, and she was chuckling and giggling evilly. "Now, bow before your master." Then the newly brainwashed Cadence did as she was told. "Yes, my lord." she said. Then a couple of crystal guards came in, hearing the commotion from the transformation. "Princess? What happened?" All of a sudden, they were suddenly blasted by Cadence with her ice blast, while she was laughing evilly. "I feel powerful. I think I should... decorate the castle a little bit." she began laughing evilly even more when she used magic from her horn, which was now a glowing bright light, and turned the castle into a freezer. After it was all done, Majora suddenly disappeared. Cadence, now turned evil, sat on her throne, lounging on her back like a mare lounging in a beach on a sunny day. It was just then Shining Armor and Cadence came back an hour later after her transformation. "Cadence what...." she noticed her mutation. "... happened to you?" "M-mommy?" Flurry said in confusion. "Ah, Shining my darling." then she walked up to him. "You're back at last." then she turned her attention to her one and only daughter. "Flurry. My dear Flurry Heart. It's so good to see your cute little face again." She tried touching her, but the baby got scared and hid behind her father. "Cadence... are you okay?" Shining asked. "You're... different." "Different, am I?" she sounded offended to hear that, but then she had a change of demeanor with a cruel chuckle. "Do you like the new look? I think it suits me." "This isn't like you." Shining said. "Oh, it isn't? Because this is a new me!" then she laughed maniacally again, and Shining never felt so scared in his entire life like this. It was just then he and Flurry ran into Twilight from before. End of Flashback Discord said: “that would explain a lot. Maybe... I should go before I get turned into an icicle.” Then he vanished into thin air cowardly. Twilight was absolutely shocked to find out what has happened, and felt like shedding tears of sadness that her former foal-sitter has been corrupted by Majora's dark magic like this. "You... you monster!" "I will never forgive you for this!" said Shining Armor. He began charging at Majora with a shout of rage, but then he was frozen by Cadence with her magic. Letting out a cruel giggle, Cadence said. "That's one way to create a hunk-cicle." "Cadence," said Link. Listen to yourself. This is not you, it's the evil inside of you talking!" "Yeah, you have a good and pure heart!" Spike added "Not anymore, Spike!" Cadence remarked with her evil grin. "My heart is stone cold, or cold as as." Link was ready to charge at her again, and he readied his weapon and shield. "She is too far gone." Said Mathayus. "We must attack." "No!" Twilight said desperately. "That's my sister-in-law, my brother's wife, and Flurry's mother! She's... family." Nownshe qas crying tears of despair. "Oh, Twilight." Said Link. "I know how you feel, but I don't think there is no other way. We have to do this." "Well, good luck trying to kill her. Cadence, do be a dear and kill them all." "Yes master." Cadence's evil smile shown sharp teeth that looked like a tiger or leopard's teeth, sharp canines in them. It reminded the Elements of Harmony of Nightmare Moon, for she had teeth like that, too. "He speaks the truth, princess." Said Mathayus. "If we defeat her," said Colin, "she'll turn back to normal." "I hate to say it, Twilight," said Applejack. "But I think we do have to fight her." The purple Allicorn looked at her friends and they nodded a yes to her. She really did not want to do this, for she might never forgive herself after this. Despite this, with one last tear drop down her face, she barked: "Let's get her!" Just like that, all the heroes attacked Cadence with all their might and strength. Cadence then conjured four large spikes of icicles from her horn, and threw them at Mathayus, Link, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash. They all dodged by jumping out of the way just in time before the spikes could pierce them. Flurry and Pip ran for cover as the fight commenced. Link pulled out his gale boomerang, and threw it at the brainwashed princess, hitting her on the side of her head. Not only that, but it also stunned her for a short time, making her dizzy. When she was no longer dizzy, she growled, and she said. "Grr, nice try, Link, but it will take way more than a mere boomerang to stop me!" "Then try this!" then Link fired his slingshot and hit her right eye. "Argh! That hurt!" the brainwashed princess exclaimed in more fury. Flurry Heart looked at her mother and couldn't help but fly up in front of her. She was face to face with her with a desperate look on her face. Tears were forming in her eyes, like she was going to cry very loudly like a baby would do if he or she was scared. "Stand aside, daughter." said Cadence. "M-mommy." Flurry babbled, trying to reason with her. "Flurry no!" said Twilight. Cadence made a small growl, and she was preparing to freeze her own daughter with her ice powers. Before the beam could touch her, Twilight suddenly flew and covered Flurry Heart from the blast, freezing her instead. Horrified, and gasping, everyone was stunned to see what happened to the princess. Link rushed to her where she was falling to, and caught her in midair just in time. "Oh Din give us strength." Link muttered. "I really hated to do that my niece, I love her, but she brought it upon herself. Maybe she'll learn her manners like this." Now Link meant business, and so did everyone else that was fighting Cadence like this. "Alright. I have had enough of this." He dodged more ice beams and ice javelins from Cadence, running towards her. "This ends now!" "Ah ah ah!" Cadence sang. "Nopony touches me!" then she tried freezing Link, but then Link deflected the blast with his shield, and sliced at Cadence with a horizontal slash with the Master Sword. Suddenly, the ice spears that were being wielded by Cadence' magic fell to the ground, shattering into tiny pieces of ice. Cadence collapsed to the floor and she was slowly turned back to normal. The ice in the room melted into water, returning itself back to normal too. Turns out that Link lifted the dark curse from the princess of Love, and downstairs, everyone that was frozen unthawed, and the blizzard outside stopped it's strong wind blowing. The skies were becoming clear again, and it would no longer be a threat to the Crystal Empire. At last, Cadence was brought back to her original self, and Shining Armor ran up to her. "Cadence!" he shouted. "Are you okay?" She didn't stir for a few seconds, but she slowly opened her eyes. "What- what happened?" she said. Her husband slowly got her back on her feet, and carried her to her throne. Twilight was unfrozen, and Flurry flew up to her mother, hugging her in joy. "You were brainwashed by Majora and turned into an ice queen." said Rainbow Dash It was all coming back to the Princess of Love now, she remembered how Majora was brainwashing her, and turned her into a tyrannical monster. She was so guilt-stricken about what she had done. Freezing all her subjects, trying to hurt her own family? She could never have felt more guilty than what she just did. "What have I done?" she let tears of guilt stream down her face like a small waterfall of sadness. “Everypony down there frozen.” “It wasn’t your fault, Cadence.” Said Twilight. “It’s all Majora’s Doing.” Just then, Discord came back. “What happened? Is it over?” “Yes, no thanks to you, Discord.” Spike replied sarcastically. “Cadence is back to normal and so is the Crystal Empire.” “Oh. Good.” The Master Of Chaos smiled. "Next time, you should always fight on the side of your friends, including me." Fluttershy sternly said. "I know." Discord bowed his head in shame. "I'm sorry." "It doesn't matter." said Link. "We took care of the problem here anyway." "Indeed." said Mathayus. "Now everyone in here has returned to normal." They all went downstairs to check on the status of everyone. Everyone was cold, and sneezing with stuffy noses. Turns out the very cold temperature here has gotten the best of them. "Oops. Too bad it didn't saved them from getting sick." said Starlight Glimmer. "Oh." Cadence sighed. "This is all my fault." She felt even more guilty about letting this happen, even though it wasn't her doing. "I am so sorry everypony." she announced. "This is all my fault I got you sick. I almost destroyed your glorious, beautiful city." Sunburst came up, and said. "It wasn't your fault, princess. What happened here exactly?" Then the Princess of Love explained to everyone in the foyer what happened and how she was brainwashed by Majora. Everyone was surprised, but then Shining Armor helped her by explaining to everyone that it was all Majora's fault that she had turned into an evil ice princess. "So you see, an evil mask spirit named Majora was the one causing the blizzard." Now everyone understood what just happened. "We could never blame you, princess." said a soldier. "And of course, it is quite an honor to have you back, great and Honorable Spike the Brave and Glorious." then the Crystal ponies bowed down to him. "Well, I didn't help out with the fight that much." Spike admitted. "You put out many ice and try stunning Cadence from attacking us." Fluttershy pointed encouragingly. "And you took down a bunch of freezards all by yourself." Twilight added with a wink. "You make a great contribution, Spike." Link added, patting the baby dragon's left shoulder. "You are still a hero." Spike smiled and said: "Yeah, you're right. I made those ice monsters suffer, didn't I?" His friends laughed at what he just said. "You sure did, Spike." said Colin.