Papers and books began to fly around the castle foyer as a light appeared in the center of the room. Two ponies suddenly shot out of the light and flew across the room.
Twilight groaned as she rubbed her head that had hit the wall of her castle. "I don't remember that happening last time I went back in time," she said as she slowly got her balance on her hooves.
Star Shadow slowly groaned and rose to his feet, checking his body for any broken bones. Finding none, he then made his way over to Twilight. "So, what year is it Twilight?'"
"If I calculated right, we arrived on the day that we buried Fury Flight the first time, and Kaorn was released," Twilight said as she looked out one of the many windows of the castle, to the town of Ponyville, still scarred from it's encounter with Nightmare Fury. "We have to get moving, we need to get to the Crystal Empire before Kaorn is released and destroys the castle," Twilight said as she took Star Shadow by the hoof, in which the unicorn blushed a little, and called upon her magic to teleport them across the world, but they ended up on the other side of Canter lot, where a group of Ponies stood over a grave site.
She saw her friends, all five of them, and the Princesses. Twilight didn't realize that tears had started to fall from her cheeks as she relived the day that her life had changed drastically forever. She watched as her friends lowered the red casket that held the body of the alicorn, Fury Flight. To her surprise however, she heard a breath beside her. She jumped and turned to see Fury standing beside her. He looked at her, then to the group where her past self stood among her friends, burying his former body.
"What happened in the Future Twilight?" Fury asked, looking to the purple alicorn with somber interest.
"I can't really say, but I need to get to the crystal empire and fast, I need to get to the library," Twilight said to her former teacher, who looked a little more confused but accepted her explanation.
"Then I suggest you hurry, I can feel a tension in the air so thick it could be cut with a knife, something is coming," Fury said, looking to the ponies burying his body before taking off the ground and flying toward them.
Twilight looked to her friends, and then to Star Shadow, who stood beside her, and then took his hoof again and focused her magic on the crystal empire. Her magic began to crackle around them as the teleportation spell activated and they disappeared from the hill and flew over reality to the Crystal Empire, where they reentered the world in the library of the Crystal Empire, where they scared the wits out of an old Librarian, who fainted at the sight of them.
Twilight looked up at the massive library and used her own senses as a librarian to find a section that might yield her answers. She looked to the highest part of the library, in a section simply called ancient times. The section showed many things, but not in the titles that Twilight searched. There was barely anything on the Great Alicorns, and this was their home. Twilight then got the thought that like Canterlot, that the books of that high of importance would be hid from the world in a place that could be spotted with her guardian magic.
Twilight then called upon her guardian magic, her horn glowing a soft white. She looked around in awe, as the library was lit with so many secret rooms and dimensions. She tried to look into one of the rooms, and found it occupied by what looked to be a frost dragon. It's head was crowned by ice and had a hole where its heart should have been. It looked into Twilight's eyes with piercing blue eyes before it spoke.
"Are you here to return my heart, the one they stole from me?" the dragon asked, looking to the alicorn.
"Your heart, the only heart here is the..........." Twilight said as she cut off her speech. The seven had slain a frost dragon and used it's heart to warm the frozen north to create the Crystal Empire.
"MY HEART!!!!" The Dragon screamed, breathing the door to the room shut with frost.
Twilight closed her eyes as she imagined the frost entrapping her, but opened her eyes to see that it was not so.
"Have you found anything yet?" Star Shadow asked from the floor, pulling Twilight from the multitude of doors around her.
"No, not yet, but I think I might know where to look," Twilight answered as she called upon her guardian magic again. The doors reappeared and she called upon her magic to guide her to the right door. Her magic brought her to a door that was sealed by a lock made of black steel, and held on by a chain made of fire links. She tried to break the lock with her magic, but found it stronger than her magic. She tried it again and again, but came to no avail. She then heard a voice that was familiar to her.
"You will not find what you seek in there Twilight, that door holds the universe that holds Kaorn, the door that you seek is over there, to the left," Came the voice, coming from all around her.
"Kronos, your in my mind?" Twilight asked, looking to the mentioned door. The door was simple, and also unlocked, and as she moved towards it, it opened to reveal a world not unlike Equestria. "I was looking for a book or two Kronos, not a memory."
"But could a book give you the same amount of information that a memory can?" Kronos asked.
Twilight walked through the doorway into a world that was dark, and looked like a war had been waged for many years. There were ruins of a lost civilization every where, along with the scattered bones of said civilization. They were not like ponies as they seemed bipedal. Just as she went in for a closer look, a lightning bolt struck the ground beside her. She jumped at the lightning, and then looked up to see clouds, but instead saw a yellow alicorn, with a mane and tail that were made from Lightning.
"So, she has brought another to do battle with us?" The being said. As he spoke, he was joined by five others, the one beside him was blue with a mane of water, while the one the right of him was red with a mane of fire. There was another to his left that was golden with a flowing white mane, and carried a bow, while the one to his right was green with a ruffled black mane and carried a mace. The one behind the pony of lightning Twilight had already met, Thanatos.
Just as Twilight began to power up, a dark pony stepped through her and faced the six old gods.
"Your reign of terror ends here, Zeus!!!" Kaorn yelled up at the gods.
Twilight's eyes widened as she looked to the alicorn that had tried to destroy equestria, now fighting to save and create it.
A bright light sprung out behind her as she looked to Kaorn, forcing her to avert her gaze to the light. A pony of pure white flew above her. She had a cutie mark of a quill and ink, and had a red mane that had been straight at one time, but had been ruffled up by war.
"Your time here has ended, your armies are defeated, surrender or be destroyed!!" The white alicorn called out.
The six gods laughed and began to conjure up magic of their own. Their horns crackled with magic and power as they tried to overpower the pure white mare, but she had other plans. Her horn lit up a soft white and a portal began to open up in front of her. As it did, the portal began to suck reality itself into the portal.
"If you don't want to surrender, then I banish you to a dimension that you will never escape and can never destroy," The alicorn said as the portal expanded.
The six gods began to slide across the cloud that they were standing on. They tried to attack, but their magic only fed the portal, and they flew off the cloud and fell into the portal, which then closed behind them.
Twilight was then teleported to the future, about a thousand years or so.
She looked over to see Fury Flight, a war torn Fury. His body was covered with bruises and cuts, and he seemed at any moment that he could attack the sun if it looked at him wrong. Him and five other alicorns looked at a Pure white alicorn, but she wasn't the same as before. She seemed like she was old and weathered, almost old, and was fading in and out of existence. They brought forth six jewels, made by their own magic. Each of them looked to their jewel, and cast a spell upon it. A portal of white began to open and accept the white alicorn with loving hooves. Once she entered the portal, the stones lit up with magic and brought forth the elements of harmony.
Twilight looked to the elements with a tint of sadness, remembering her days as the element of magic, but then found that she was being pulled out of the memory back to the real world.
She flew out of the door and fell to the floor where a bewildered Star Shadow looked at her with care.
"Are you ok Twilight?" Star Shadow asked, helping her to her hooves.
"Yea, but I have no idea what just happened, but I have an idea of how to save the future, come on Star Shadow," Twilight said as she took Star Shadow's hooves and reproduced her time spell and traveled back to the present. What they found in the present however, was nothing like they wanted. When Twilight returned, she came face to face with Thanatos, and the smirk on his face could only mean one thing, war was coming.....