//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: The Elemental Split (S1E1 - E2) // Story: The Elemental Manipulation // by GalaxyEmpire //------------------------------// The Elemental Split Twenty minutes later... Leo really doesn't wanna be rude or anything that ill-mannered. It just that went come to lots of unrecognised ponies, he's hardly able to think! As of right now, his little brother and sister are next to him, while Twilight was doing what she usually does, Spike on the other claw, chatting with the same pony name Apple Bloom. He doesn't mind at all, in fact, the purple drake seems to make new friends in Ponyville rather then him. Though, the filly was currently reintroducing the dragon to the food her family brought, even so, her big sister has already told them. The place is so large place, much more like the apple farm. The cub has currently closed his eyes for no one can enter inside his head, clinging to his sister with his right paw as a low whimper sound can be heard. The unicorn noticed this grip getting stronger. "Calm down, Leo... Took a moment for deep breath you always do." The tiny apple saw the situation, she asked Spike for answers. "My brother just having trouble with the crowds only." "So, he doesn't like being in the bunch of ponies?" "For first, yes. But after some couple of months, he will get used to it." He clarified. “Talking about Leo?” Pinkie Pie asked suddenly from right next to them, making both Spike and Apple Bloom jump back in surprise. Pinkie Pie ignored the shock before turned to the lion to continued the talk, though her tone was a little subdued. "I'm super sorry about startling you like that earlier, I didn't think anyone was afraid of ponies or would get that squeamish I was throwing a surprise welcome to Ponyville party. I didn't mean to frighten you or anything. PLEASE DON'T BE MAD!” "Eep!!!" The pressure is too much to take for the lion, he buried his face on Twilight front legs, he whines as a small water form from his eyes. "Shuu shuu shuu it's okay Leo..." The big sister patted his back head. "Pinkie Pie just want to apologize for sudden surprise parties." "O-Okay..." "Really!?" The party maker popped up again, her hair exploding back into the poofy curls, her tears drying up as if they never were there. She tried to get closer to him for a hug but being pulled back by Spike and a purple magic aura. "Awe... Why?" The drake spoke. "Remember his aversion?" Looks like the mare completely forgot about it. Seriously, why there are so many ponies who nearly don't remember anything? Anyway, she smiled sheepishly, before want to say anything, a fanfare of bird song sounds, the crowd of ponies go silent as they all look up at the second floor of the town hall where Rarity stood by a curtained off area, ready to pull the cord to reveal the Princess. "It starting!!" Pinkie is excited. A spotlight shines down to just under the curtained-off balcony area where Mayor Mare stood ready for a speech. Fluttershy smiled as she guided her birds to sing, announcing the reveal. "Fillies and gentle colts, as Mayor of Ponyville, it is my pleasure to announce the beginning of the Summer Sun Celebration.” She called out her voice carrying over the crowd, only to drown out by the thunder of stomping hooves and cheering. After waiting for the cheering to die down the Mayor spoke again. “In just a few moments, our town will witness the magic of the sunrise and celebrate this, the longest day of the year." Twilight glanced to the sky with a worried expression, seeing the moon through the great glass windows at the top of the town hall. The stars she thought were closer before were gone and the image of the mare on the moon seemed to vanish. She begins to mumble, "Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousands year, the Stars will aid in her escape..." “And now it is my great honour to introduce you to the ruler of our land...” Mayor continued. "...and she will bring about..." Everyone is eager to see their princess. Leo opens his eyes, not want to ignore Celestia raise the sun, though pretty much there can see the Princess almost any time they wanted. Spike and Applebloom looked up at the upper balcony with excitement, Fluttershy gestured for her birds to ready the fanfare, Pinkie Pie vibrated in place, Rarity readied herself to pull the cord, Applejack offered a slice of cake to a pony and Rainbow Dash devoured said cake slice with easy as Twilight end her sentence. ... ... "...everlasting night." “PRINCESS CELESTIA!” The mayor says as the curtain was yanked back and the spotlight moved to the upper balcony to reveal nothing. Ponies around her started yammering in shock as Rarity poked her head behind the curtain looking for the Princess. "Huh? Where Celestia, Sis?" The cub asked. "Not sure about it..." She replied. "...but I got bad feelings for this." Leo let go of his sister's legs, neglect the public. What he knew about the princess is that she would never leave her subjects waiting for the important events like this. He perceives but doesn't seem to know what it will be. “Be calm everypony there must be a reasonable explanation.” Mayor Mare placated. “She's gone,” Rarity called down as all the others gasped in shock. “Ooh, she's good.” Pinkie Pie admitted looking up at the balcony before screaming out. Her cry starting other panicked sounds from the crowd as a dark purplish mist begins to form, billowing over the balcony. "Oh no..." Twilight fretful upon the coming of her. There were a few screams and some shrieking as the mist took the form of a towering black alicorn with metallic blue armour. Her mane and tail swirled around her like an unbound miasma of partial stars and mostly void. Her teal eyes were slitted like a cat as she stared down at the gather ponies, most of them too much in shock at the appearance of the dark mare to even move. "Nightmare Moon!" Leo quickly whispered to his little brother. "Spike, go and protected Applebloom and the other foal." He nodded. The drake stared at the filly but she already hides under the table with rest of them, huddling each other. He came near the furniture with an angry look on his face as he glared up at the dark alicorn. Though he still a baby dragon, Spike has been obsessed by the royal guard training in Canterlot training field while he was 10 years old. Watching them spar to get stronger so there could protect the innocent one make him want to do as well. He usually going there secretly, not to tell the family where is he going. Later on, he told Leo about it and after a couple of days, his older brother, who is almost completely the training to become a royal guard. “Oh, my beloved subjects. It's been so long since I've seen your precious little sun-loving faces....” The mare sneered glaring down at them all. “WHAT DID YOU DO WITH OUR PRINCESS!” Rainbow Dash shouted launching into the air only for Applejack to grab her tail. “Why? Am I not royal enough for you?” The mare chuckled. Her laughter cut off for a moment as she looked to the back of the crowd curiously her ears perked. “Don't you know who I am?” The mare asked looking back over the crowd ignoring the minor stampede. “Ooh, more guessing games. Hmmm, Hokey Smokes? No, Queen Meanie! Oh, Oh, Oh, I got it, Black snooty, that's it's Black Snooty.” Pinkie Pie guessed any further guesses cut off as Applejack shoved a large cupcake in the jabbering mares mouth to shut her up. “Does my crown no longer count now that's I've been imprisoned for a thousand years!?” the mare snarled glaring at Fluttershy and sending her birds flying away in terror as the Pegasus flinched and whimpered. She whirls on Rarity catching the mares chin with the miasma of her mane. “ Did you not recall the legends, did you not see the signs?” She growled popping the white Unicorn on the chin with her mane. “I did,” Twilight called out. “And I know who you are. You're the mare in the moon...” "Nightmare Moon!" The ponies cry and shocked by hearing about it, she took a step before saying the word, leaving Leo from the back as he can't believe it was actuality. "So the legend was real..." He mumbled. “Well, well, well. Some pony who remembers me.” Nightmare Moon smiled.” Then you also know why I'm here...” “You're here too... too...” Twilight flinched noting everyone else staring at her. The dark alicorn jumped from the balcony, landing in front of the unicorn mare. She gazes at her, Twilight did the same but not like competition, two of the eyes stare before the taller one unleash her anger to her by using her transparent radial gradient magic aura to force Twilight lifted up in the air, face to face with her. "USELESS PONY!!!" The alicorn shout. "ANYPONY WHO DON'T REMEMBER ME WILL BE ELIMINATED!!!" Twilight trembles herself out from the grip of magic only to get more even tighter. She cries as the pain keep coming from her. Everypony in fear of seeing her being clutch by an 'old pony tale' who now laugh maniac. "Sis!" The golden lion leaps in mid-air and land on the mare bat wing for trying to grab his sister but got blasted off by the dark alicorn, sending him backwards near a ponies he recognises before. "Leo! Are you, alright?" Lyra asked worriedly. "Don't worry, I'm fine..." "FOOLISH CREATURE!!! DON'T GET IN MY WAY OR YOU WILL BEING NEXT ON MY LIST!!!" Nightmare Moon prepared to end Twilight life, she charges her horn for preparing the spell. The lavender mare shut her visions, waiting for her ended and ready to board the train to heaven. Leo saw this, he won't allow anyone to hurt his sister! "Let go of my, Sister!" He got up from the ground as he ran to toward her, lightning came out of his paws ready to go, he leaps in the air once again before roll in a clockwise spin as the lightning grown to his entire body. His mind is only attention to rescue his big sister. ELEMENT LIGHTNING!!! The transformation is complete, still in the situation. He summoned some kind of lightning blade, Its shapes like a lightning bolt, the appearance of the sword have a surface that is more of shiny metal with yellow patterns and flashes slightly sparking around it. The yellow mane lion assault Nightmare Moon, as he bringing the grief to her, little does he know. He's an idiot. The dark alicorn used her magic, ending the lion attacks, he totally let his sense take over at the same time, realize that the alicorn can levitate things or objects. "Very. Ludicrous. Lion." She then raises him with full magic she has, literally sending Leo to the mist she had developed. "Leo!" Spike yells for his brother. “SEIZE HER! SHE MUST KNOW WHERE THE PRINCESS IS!!” Mayor Mare bellowed out. Several of the Royal Guard launched themselves in the air at Nightmare Moon, try to take hold of her. “STAY BACK YOU FOOLS!” She snarled. Lightning lanced from the fading miasma above, striking two of the Pegasi and a third was felled by a blow from her nebulous mane. The Guards crashed to the ground and the rest of the ponies in the room went mad with panic, running around like roaches when the lights were turned on. "That's it, running like a coward your foolishness!" She is furious, look back to the mare still in her magic grip. "And now, it's your turned!" Twilight in panics right now, she can't even use her own magic since the aura from the Nightmare Moon block it. She glances at Spike, still protected the foals with his arms cross off. Then she glanced at the skies for where her other brother being trapped in it. But something caught her attention from the mist, the dragon also noticed as well except the dark alicorn. A three-ball of light with a colour of yellow, dark blue and brown in the triangle formation. The siblings now realised that their brother is using his full power of him. ELEMENTAL... Leo's voice can be heard from the dark mist, the alicorn turned to where her creations we place as the voice continue on. TRIPLE... A thrust of light appeared in the nebulous mist as the most explodes to see a golden sparkling spinning circle. Every ponies and a dragon can clearly see three logos in a small size of the circle; at the bottom left has a lightning bolt, next to it a blue tornado and at the top of the between of two is some kind of mountain but with a brown colour. There, Leo was behind the spinning circle as he whipped forward. SPLIT!!! He enters the ring to come out from where the elements logo are, though this time a new elements came out for it; all the silver-grey mane and turf tail lion has turned into brown with his bandana as well while his back legs foot was black, an earth symbol can be seeing on it. In addition to that, he only wears one red armband, on his left paws. Not this brown Leo come out, but two other Leo from the Lightning and Wind logo also emerge from it. One have a serious face, the other has a smiling face. There's is actually three Leo right now. "What in tarnation!?" "There's three of them!?" "I wanna do that!!!" "What..?" "Where did he learned from?" Everyone stopped their running for life to see the shocking entrance of the cubs making. Nightmare Moon also surprised for this, never thought someone can escape from her nebulous mist. The magic aura from Twilight disappeared, hit the floor with her flank first. As she rubs her side flank, Spike ran to her with a bunch of foals from his behind. "Twilight! Are you okay right?" He asked. The unicorn nodded before looking at the outcome. The foals are very awe looking at the lion cub. Earth Punch!!! The brown lion punches the surface, raises the ground level where the alicorn stood from. The strike makes her lunched to the skies, making the pain come from her bottom part expanded. Wind Blast!!! The blue lion makes a move, he collects the power of the wind around his paws. Then, continually releases to create a blue tornado at Nightmare Moon, who's really not knowing her wing to flap. Seriously! Anywhere, the mare spins around till she crashes to the wall of the building. Lightning Blade!!! The yellow cub shook his head once, summoned his blade from his mouth. He first dashes to the mare for a slash attack. He success, the mare received electroshock flow through her body. The electrokinesis keeps striking from left to right on airborne, making Nightmare Moon scream in pain as she falls down to the floor with a hard thud. The Leo gathered together, the blue one hover on his wind with a smiled on his face. The yellow remains serious, still clenching the blade just in case for an unnecessary comeback. Nightmare Moon keeps on silence, all of the attacks seem effective her extreme injury. She let out a deep voice. "ENOUGH!!!" She then unleash an exploded spell, blow off the trio cub. She very pissed right now. She then faded into a shadow that swirled in the air before darting through the crowd and out the door of the town hall into the night. Twilight gets up to see if Leo are alright. She immediate check on them if they a major wound, thankfully just a few bruises on them. "You guys alright?" "Yeah..." "I'm okay!" "We've fine, Sis." The battles are over, for now, Nightmare Moon retreats to nowhere. The duo Leo became a yellow and blue orb and assemble back to the brown one. Doing so makes them merge into himself, regular form. To Twilight, sigh in relief to saw it, to other ponies, who doesn't know about this except Spike and Lyra who already seeing, back to running and screaming... “This is not the kinda party I like.” Pinkie Pie started bounding through the crowd towards them. "Where's Fluttershy and Rarity? They were way too close to black snooty.” “Up here, darling.” Rarity leaned over the balcony with Fluttershy behind her. “That was totally horrible... the Worst. THING. EVER! She nearly missed my mane...” Applejack narrowed her eyes at the prissy pony, before looking to Leo. “That was some quick thinking yet do there. Ah never seeing such an incredible power you got there." "Thank you." He feels grateful, but a little bit of uneasy near the four of them. “Yeah, Twilight was the only one who knew who Black Snooty was. Then you come in like... wait... how did Twilight know who she was?” Pinkie Pie piped in. The five ponies looked at the lavender mare curiously. She flattened her ears to her head and sighed. Spike, tried to get everyone attention. "I think we're forgetting something?"