"It's time to head home for a 'Saved the Crystal Empire' party!" Pinkie said as Twilight left the palace.
Twilight was talking to Celestia after the Crystal Empire inccident. I needed to speak to Celestia about my poison dream and what Shadow meant by Helios. I told the girls to head home without me as I walked into the room of stained glass windows.
"What are you doing here Archer?" Celestia asked, "The others have left."
"I wish to speak with you in private," I replied with a bow.
I explained what I saw and heard. Afterwards, Celestia went to the back of the roomand pulled a torch, opening a secret door.
"Everything will be explained if you follow me," she said as she walked down a staircase.
I followed her to a small, torchlit room with a mirror on the far end.
"This is the Anima Speculum," Celestia explained, "If you gaze into it, it will show you the answers you seek."
I walked up to the mirror and stared into it. Instead of my reflection, I saw the alicorn from my poison dream. He had an orange coat. His mane and tail were red with yellow streaks. His cutiemark a pheonix.
"Hello Archer. I am Helios.
"How do you know my name?"
"The Anima Speculum shows extra souls in the body. I am within your body, or more accuratly your bey."
I pulled Sagittario out of my pocket, "Celestia told me you would answer my questions."
Helios nodded, "Touch your hand to the mirror and all will be explained.
I touched the mirror and it felt like my mind was being separated from my body. The next thing I know I'm hovering over a forest.
"Where am I?" I thought.
"I am showing you the explanation you seek." I couldn't see Helios, but I heard his voice. "Now remain silent as I speak my story.
"2700 years ago, a star fell from the sky." A meteor fell as he spoke. Contained within that star was unimaginable cosmic power. I set out to put that power under the control of my family."
The scene shifted to show Helios standing in front of two alicorns and a centaur. They were in front of a crowd of both humans and ponies.
"In those days I ruled over both man and pony. To assit in the rule of my descendents I created three tops." Helios produced three beyblades. "To my eldest daughter, Celestia, I gave Sol Blaze to augment her solar abilities. To the middle child, Luna, I gave Lunar Tempo to augment her power over the moon. To my youngest, Sagittarious, I gave a bey simply known as The Archer.
"Why is your son a centaur?" I asked.
"He tried using a transformation spell and it left him halfway between forms. Now, as I was saying, for a century we had peace throughout the land.
The scene shifted to a stone glowing with dark energy. "I was not the only being attracted to the star's power. A being of dark power took a fragment and turned it into a bey known as Nemesis.
Darkness used Nemesis to put most of Equestria into a state of shadow. In order to combat this threat, I created the Elements of Harmony from the last of the star." Six beams of light shot at the growing shadow.
"The Elements could be used to their full power, however, Darkness mortally wounded my son. In order to save him I used the Elements to fuse his soul with the bey. This created the bey you know as Sagittario."
I stared at the beyblade that was still in my hand. It was the son of this alicorn, yet how did I posses it?
"I used Sagittario to remove the power from Darkness and seal Nemesis away. Another century of peace passed before Discord, a beast of chaos, came to the land. Knowing of my power and the growing strenght of humamity with beys I created, he turned be human and created a universe for all of humaniity to inhabit. He also wiped Equestria from the minds of all but a few, that is how Earth's myths were born.
My daughters used the Elements of Harmony to defeat Discord, but I perished as a human. My soul entered the bey, Sagittario, and a son I had with a human woman took it. That man was your ancestor.
That was a strange story, yet it made sense. I don't know, it might be because of the fact that Equestria exsists that it made sense. But there was one last question.
"How do I defeat Nemesis?"
"I do not know. Nemesis is currently in a state where it is absorbing energy. Once it has reached its full power, it will have the strength of Sagittario within. I can give you access to all of my power, that will help some..
Helios appeared and plunged his horn into my chest again. I could feel the same rush of pure power as when I used Wrath of Helios flow through my body. Helios removed his horn and I was standing in front of the Anima Speculum again.
"Did you find your answers?" Celestia asked.
"Yes," my mind was unfocused. Not because I had seen what I had, but because my back was so dang itchy.
I threw off my jacket and ripped off my shirt. Celestia gasped a little I looked in the mirror to fing six foot wings sproting from my back.
"It appears tthat my father gave you his powers," Celestia said while I was thinking, "Rarity is going to need to retailor my stuff."