"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight Sparkle shouts. "Get over here!"
Pensively, Spike peers out from behind a large boulder wearing a ruby lightning bolt for a necklace. He gulps and waddles over to stand beside the five mares and their pendants. All are gray, except for Twilight.
Frowning, the crowned unicorn faces Discord and grumbles, "Alright! Let's get this over with!"
Discord stands unamused before them, watching only because he can.
Twilight closes her eyes. The star at the top of her crown lights up. An invisible wind blows across the scene as she and her four friends levitate up off the ground. From below, Spike watches nervously as the Elements of Harmony light up one by one.
Fluttershy's body tenses as her bejeweled butterflies pulse with golden light.
Pinkie's lethargic eyes reflect the fuschia glow of her pendant.
Applejack gazes off towards the horizon as her red and green element shimmers.
Rarity calmly allows her blue diamond to glow with deep intensity.
Twilight's eyes glow brighter and brighter. The five ponies float in formation, short one member.
Discord raises an eyebrow, intrigued by the increasing luminosity of the summoned spell.
Twilight's forehead begins to crease. Sweat runs down her temples as the star above her head glows brighter, hotter...
Fluttershy is the first to let out a pained grunt.
Pinkie Pie's eyes flicker with fear.
Applejack gasps, convorting in pain as the gray melts away from her coat. "What... Wh-what's happenin'?"
"Augh!" Rarity shreaks, her mane returned to its purple shrine. "Twilight! Something... is wr-wrong!"
"Guys! What's happening?!" Spike gasps from below, clutching his tail and stammering, "The Elements... Th-they're..."
"My my, well this is certainlyinteresting," is all an intrigued Discord can say.
"Aaah!" Fluttershy yelps, her tears evaporating in the burning hot wind. "I-I'm on fire! Oh Celestia... Oh Celestia h-help!"
"Make it stop! Make it st-stop!" Pinkie sobs.
"I-I can't!" Twilight Sparkle shouts. Her glowing eyes curve in pain and shock. "There's some k-kind of feedback! I can't reverse it! I can't even think!"
"Aaaaugh!" Rarity shrieks, tossing her head back as the diamond's glow spreads through her twitching body. "Oh heavens! There's so m-much light! So much! I... I..." Rarity twitches one last time, chokes, and her body explodes in a brilliant flash of dust.
"Rarity!" Spike screams, his face awash with tears.
"Wh-what happened?!" Applejack shouts. The pendants are generating a hum so loud that it forms fissures in the earth below. "Did Rarity just—"
"Mmmmngh-Gaaaah!" Fluttershy's body arches back as the glow of her pendant spreads through her and bursts in platinum fury. What was left of her body and feathers scatters to the ground in white ash.
"Fluttershy!" Pinkie sobs, curling up into a fetal position as the pendant spins her around in mid-air. "Nnnngh... No! Please, no! No!"
"Girls..." Twilight stammers, cries, and gasps for breath. "Girls, the elements. They... th-they're consuming us. I d-don't understand—"
"Aaaah!" Pinkie lets loose and twirls until her body flies apart in shimmering ash.
"Pinkie Pie!" Applejack shouts. Gritting her teeth, she spins around and hisses towards Twilight. "Twi! Do somethin'! Please!"
"I... I-I can't..."
"I wanna see my family again! Please!" The hat atop her head melts away as she grits her teeth with glowing eyes. "Make it st-stop! I'm begging you!"
"So... so much burning..." Twilight's eyes leak platinum froth towards the skies as she floats backwards and screams. "Nnnngh—Augh! Celestia—"
Twilight's crown explodes, and her body dissolves like spiraling fireworks along with it.
Alone in the glowing tempest, Applejack clutches her hooves to her chest and shivers.
"Must b-be strong. Must be strong for them! The Elements... We're..." Hot tears leak out of her eyes as her face wrenches in pain. "Oh my... it goes on forever..." She sobs and buckles. "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry, y'all. I—"
A last flicker of emerald eyes, and the white heat absorbs everything.
Two-hundred and forty-seven chapters to get here, and it's just as horrifying as I thought it would be.
Oh GOD. That was painful to read.
In a good way.
Sort of.
A moment of silence for the departed...
That was agonizing.
mother....
That was... just...
Sweet Celestia... Ouch!
I knew it was going to be bad back in Austraeoh, I just figured it'd be Discord's fault
Twilight you done oopsed
From this, I don't think they're dead. The Elements don't kill people anyway.
Now we know what happened. The question now is why did it happen.
IT IS EXPLAINED! So much waiting for this one chapter!! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_O_O.png
Finally. FINALLY. Over a hundred chapters of making guess after guess, and I FINALLY get one right. Granted, it was teed up to be pretty obvious, but I was finally able to guess the events of the next chapter.
Except it was two chapters later, not one.
Meh. I'm counting it.
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In Memoriam:
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Perhaps the elements work like a circuit? When they r together energy runs through easily and can be properly directed but when they r apart..... I guess all that energy needed to go somewhere.
That was new.
Ouch. This was painful to read.
expecting their end cannot compare to reading it in visceral detail.
Finally, confirmation on what happened to the elements. God, the was painful to read
I don't think that it really hurt me at all to read that.
Except on the inside.
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Rest in peace, Elements. May you someday be avenged.
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Well...
At least now we know how but...
I don't think I really wanted to...
The piles of ash...
That was gruesome....
Eugh...
It wast fire that they burned in, they just... exploded?
Imploded?
...
May Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack and fluttershy all live on, and be one day returned to the face of this world...
I always end up reading sad stories don't I?
...
A terrific suspense.
It - It happened.
Argh, my heart clenched up reading that. So the Elements vaporized them? The energy must've stopped at Spike, and then backfired somehow. But maybe... maybe this means they can be brought back somehow? Although I'm at a loss as to how that might work, and knowing that this author (you) writes a ton of sad stuff... I'm not holding out much hope. The worst part is that Discord didn't even do it, at least not directly. Poor Dash. Now all we need to know is how Dash ended up as the vessel for Discord's chaos soul thing. Onward...
I knew this was coming, but damn...
Man, I correctly predicted that the element feedback, but that was still really painful to read. Not a good end.
Do you think AJ got a peek into eternity? Scary.
Ouch. Just one lingering question... How did Discord get defeated? Was it Celestia? It would explain why RD 'forgives' her way back in Austraeoh.
You can't create a complex system without all the parts.
Holy. . . that is a pretty damn horrible way to go. Burning and then exploding. . .
I'm somewhat surprised at the fact that Discord was innocent though.
Oh my god...sitting at school trying not to cry. shit
So it's an AU, where being unable to use the elements properly explodes you into dust, unless you're immortal.
That was horrifying to read. No wonder Dash hates herself, she's got the survivor's guilt to end all survivor's guilt.
"feedback", and "it goes on forever"....
Stupid theory time: Maybe their consciousnesses got sucked into the Elements themselves when their bodies were destroyed? Maybe they're not really dead? Yeah, right. But I can dream...
NOOOO!!! I still remember the days when this story was merely a journey with no reason at all
Moment of truth.
As grim as the truth may be.
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Good times....
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just remembered that i wanted to ask someone: how do you use emticons that aren't on the list?
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
Okay, moment of silence for the epicness of this chapter. Man, we knew almost from square one that the Elements were dead, but...damn.
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Done. Now for the evaluation. Actually, this chapter brings a very big twist that I definitely did not see coming. The reason for the Elements' death was not Discord. Without Loyalty to complete the circle, the power spiraled out of control and simply...imploded them. Quite strange...and all this time, we blamed Discord. Who is still indirectly responsible, I suppose, because of...ah, whatever. I'm still getting over that chapter...These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
So instead of fizzing out, they imploded in classic "Twilight screws up a spell somehow" style. Crap.
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You know, as grim and revealing this chapter is...I feel like this one in particular isn't needed. Heck I don't like it, not because of how grim it is but how bluntly revealing it is. Heck we don't have Rainbow Dash's perspective in this. How is anyone perceiving this scene here. Belle can't witness it since Dash isn't there to, so this scene in particular is not in her memory. Plus, I'm not entirely ok with how IC gives us this on a silver plate. I enjoyed being puzzled more from this story then have all this exposition.
So in conclusion, as important as it is, I feel I do not enjoy this chapter at all.
(Look back at previous chapter)
DISREGARD THIS POST, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVING ON
....still hate how this exposition is thrown at us.
well... shit.
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WHAT.
WHAT EVEN.
This was revealed way too easily, there's got to be some sort of catch... but still, WHAT THE HELL. THEY JUST EXPLODED? Is that why Dash feels so badly about the whole thing, because she wasn't there to solidify the Elements' power by completing the circle, so to speak?
wow, that was brutal
In an interstellar burst...
;_;
Wow. I've been fearing reading this chapter for some time, and well, now it's over.
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So that's how it happened...
Well..
....
Uhhhh...
...
Shit.
I think that about sums it up.
Holy shit...wtf elements?
And you know what makes this all worse? Spike watched that happen. God dammit . . .
.....O.O O.O O.O
i........I'm.....In legitimate shock.....I'm not exhaggerating......I....
I've been wondering what happened to the other elements o' Harmony
I still think there's an outside source that caused that....they all either exploded in 'brilliance' or platinum.
and also: IT WASNT FUCKIN DISCORD!!!??? WHY?!