What happens when the entirety of Equestria, if not the fate of the whole world, relies on the shoulders of just 6 heroes and their companions? Did anyone dare to question what would happen to the future if those heroes can no longer bear the burden one day, and those believed vanquished rise again?

Twilight Sparkle, Starlight Glimmer & Spike have witnessed the outcome of such dependency; a future without the bearers of the elements. Chaos, darkness, conflict, fear, anguish, sorrow and ruin. And their only response to that was acceptance, rehabilitating Starlight Glimmer to be part of their ranks so perhaps she could make a crucial difference.

But there are many more events aside from time manipulation that can cause such dark times. The heroes triumphed over many fiends and challenges that brought everybody to the brink of doom. Even those they reformed narrowly managed to save their land from rule through fear and intimidation by the former changeling queen's hooves.

Ultimately, it does not change that time could be running out for them and this world at any minute. There might be no future in anything they believe to have accomplished while everyone else spectated powerlessly. False hope sown by narrow minds only reaps exasperation after all. But all inhabitants of this world deserve something else, something nobody could never achieve on their own.

A future of lasting harmony.

Takes place before the season 3 finale.

1000 years before Celestia and Luna defeated Discord, they and their 5 friends had to defeat the most maleficent creature of all. A pony the legends call Pariah. By using the Elements of Harmony, they were able to seal him and the darkness inside him away into eternal crystal.
In the present, Twilight Sparkle fears that Pariah may return, because of a lost page of the historical tradition she found. Because the princesses’ won´t listen, she and her friends steal a sacred artifact, which is used to start the festival of the eclipse, a festival ponykind celebrates every 25 years since the defeat of Pariah. With the artifact, Twilight believes she can reveal a power that is able stop Pariah.
But everything takes a bad turn and Pariah is free again and the fight for Equestria seems to be doomed.
Will Twilight Sparkle and her friends be able to stop the threat for existence itself and vanquish the darkness inside Pariah, or will Pariah use the contrary powers of the Elements of Harmony and excites his craving for vengeance and eclipses the world with him?