This story is a sequel to Elements Change the Dark Hearts

With the arrival of six monsters in the land of Equestria, the world begins its slow period of adjustment as they make themselves at home for the time being. Life in the land of harmony was already full of twists and turns underneath its saccharine surface, but their new inclusion is sure to create new precious moment that even they can’t ignore. Outlooks and perceptions will change, for better or worse, and the world will get to know these Dark Hearts just a bit more.

Stories Featuring Bael:

• Swansong
• White Night Fantasy

Stories Featuring Elvis:

• Champagne Supernova
• Burning Love

Stories Featuring Dumah:

• Vampire Heart

Stories Featuring Monsoon:

• Bleeding Mascara

Stories Featuring Adna:

• Hey Angel
• Faster Than Light

Stories Featuring Mantis:

• Scales of Justice

Stories Featuring Multiple Monsters:

• Silent Night
• Dying Land

Part 1: Kindness Warms the Frosty Heart

After a humiliating defeat at the hand of a bizarre human with a mutated arm, a dazed Bael, Lord of Toads and Master of the Frozen Soil, is dragged back through the Hellgate, and plummets through the tunnel walls. When he awakens, he is greeted by a frozen wasteland, much like his home, but there is something amiss. It's too calm. Too peaceful. Before he tries to find a way back, he will make a new home here, but not before some alterations, and finding a source of food. Preferably the kind that didn't have a glowing hand.

Part 2: Laughter Cools the Tempered Heart

After the defeat (and subsequent death) at the hand of God, being used by a smart mouth human, Elvis of the Four Devas gives one last request to his slayer before he passes on. But where does one pass on to, exactly? Demons are especially tricky, considering their allegiances and designs. Elvis, however, was always the odd one of his race, exemplifying moments of generosity and kindness, despite his voracious appetite and short temper. Perhaps the good in him could be fleshed out in a land of harmony...

Warning: Gratuitous Spanish

Part 3: Generosity Graces the Vain Heart

Hundreds of years after a surprise attack, a vampire king is released from his limbo, and greeted by his once perished former brother. Boasting considerable strength and new found power after being subjected to the spirit world for so long, he warned his savior upon being questioned about his strength. When all is said and done, the mighty goliath of a vampire, a master of a now dead and scattered kingdom, will understand the meaning of humility and charity. And on that day, the life of a young and aspiring unicorn of fashion and art will help show him the way.

Part 4: Honesty Smooths the Jaded Heart

Monsoon came and went, and was reduced to silver lining slivers when the lightening of vengeance struck. He conceded to his own dark philosophy as he drew his last cybernetic breath. But the universe would not let him go, not as the cynical and violent soul he is. The winds of destruction give way to the winds of change, and like raindrops to a puddle, he is reformed on a new world for a new chance. Can his brutal point of view be changed with simple and peaceful honesty, or will he continue down the dark and complex path of his natural born chaos?

Part 5: Loyalty Opens the Closed Heart

Heaven demands the highest expectations of obedience. When a powerful witch dares to tread their hallowed grounds, eager and dutiful angels throw themselves at the chance to prove their worth. However, upon underestimating their foe, the messengers of God are quickly defeated. One particular angel that jumped into the fray was stricken out, and denied the embrace of death. While floating through the endless sea of stars, its broken body finds itself coming to a new realm, untouched by Heaven or Hell.

Part 6: Friendship Saves the Nihilist Heart

Frustrations swell as time continues to pass, where research and failure go hand in hand. A darkened mind is pulled from the void, violently ejected into a world not its own. Death gives way to life, and life bares death. The final heart as arrived, but not through planned volition. The worst is yet to come. It will be up to the scholar to unravel this enigma, while a new, far more dangerous threat grows. Sing the hymn of the mantis.

This story is a sequel to Elements Change the Dark Hearts

For eons, uncounted and unseen, darkness was its life. From exile, to servitude, to reconstruction, and finally, after so much tragedy, to containment. Locked and hidden, only cold, hateful violence filled its soul. Even its host couldn't control it for long.

However it was not so at first. The host, the miserable human that had come across it, sparked long lost fragmented memories of what it once was. Such overwhelming light and love, and a name.

Celestia

I'm so cold...

This story is a sequel to Elements Change the Dark Hearts

After being utterly humiliated yet again, this time at the behest of Twilight’s friends before an invading changeling army, Trixie Lulamoon, the professionally powerful magi of prestidigitation and illusions, now without the power of the Alicorn Amulet, turns to magic far darker than she could imagine. Upon finding an occultist’s book on ritualistic summoning, she intends on bringing forth a powerful creature from beyond the mortal realm to grant her desires. After months of translating the spell to the best of her prestigious abilities, and a few days worth of mental preparation, she begins the ritual to call forth her new benefactor: Belial.

A single mistake can alter ritual properties and parameters, however...

This story may or may not be canon to “Elements”, but is separate from the anthology story “Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children”.

This story is a sequel to Elements Change the Dark Hearts

Long ago, before the founding of Equestria between the Three Kingdoms, a particular Kingdom once existed. This was the First Kingdom, The Alicorns; members of ponykind that possessed all three types of magic. Magic of the body, magic of the wing, and magic of the horn. They were few, but grace spread wherever they cantered, and glory followed at their hooves. The latest in the line of Alicorns, Celestia and Luna, were cared for and loved by their mother and father as they became groomed to some day usher in a new era for ponykind; to unite them under one banner in the inevitable future.

Thousands of years later, in present day Equestria, after trials and tribulations aplenty, the two sisters of the sun and moon have done just that, despite the past returning to haunt their prosperity and tear their efforts asunder. Each adversary was met with the strength, values, and magic that bound the world, be it through powerful artifacts or through valiant hearts.

However, no matter the troubles, Celestia, the matriarch of the Sun, held anxious; paranoid for a threat far worse than everything they’ve faced combined. Something so horrible that it required the summoning of six extremely dangerous extra-equestrian beings to stand guard beside the Elements of Harmony. An event so catastrophic, that nothing short of the full force of harmony and chaos combined is needed to even hope to repel what’s to come. A repeat in history so monumental that it once resulted in the exact reason why Celestia and Luna were the last of their kind for so long.