Twilight's eyes widened as she watched the god stare back at her with a sinister smile. He looked over to Star Shadow, and then back to Twilight. She called upon her magic to attack, but Thanatos brought forth a hoof.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, you might hurt this one," Thanatos said as his own horn lit up and a fragile Celestia appeared in his hooves, between him and Twilight.
Twilight reigned in her magic and stared Thanatos down before speaking. "You coward, hiding behind another to save your unholy hide," Twilight said menacingly. "What is it you want Thanatos?"
"I want what I always wanted Twilight Sparkle, the destruction of this world and the rebirth of my kingdom," Thanatos said, looking down at the princess in his hooves.
"You will never succeed Thanatos, history has proven that time and time again, but the question remains of how you were revived," Twilight said.
"Honestly Twilight, do you not think that the stones would remain untouched through all that time," Thanatos said, looking to Twilight. "The stones fell one after another to the hooves of time, falling into the hooves of my followers, so that I could be resurrected. The first stone buried in the earth below even the deepest of mines was found by miners, digging deeper than they had ever dug. The stone brought them what they thought would be fame and fortune, but only gave them death. Moments after they picked up the stone, the cave collapsed and killed the three miners, the stone being all that remained, picked up by a Death follower. The next stone was erupted from the volcano in the Dragon kingdom, and found by a young fire drake, who took the stone to his master, who in turn killed the dragon and then turned on himself, leaving the stone open to the grasp of another," Thanatos said, smiling at Twilight with a radiant grin.
"The third stone was drifted to the shore of the Equus sea, found by a traveler, who fell victim to it's magic and took to the dark side, embracing the ways of death. The Fourth stone was found in Cloudsdale, inside the infamous rainbow factory, where the pegasi there had embraced the stone and used it for their evil purposes. The fifth stone was found in Canterlot, right under your noses, taken by one of the maids who left the castle," Thanatos finished.
"But that only makes five stones Thanatos, you are not fully powered and will never get the sixth," Twilight said, looking at the god with interest.
"It matters not, I don't need the stone to live on this plane, but I will get the stone eventually," Thanatos said again, and then looked to Twilight.
Twilight's thoughts began to race about the stones, Thanatos, and the factory he mentioned in Cloudsdale. That factory was just a myth, wasn't it.
"What about the Rainbow Factory Thanatos, where would this factory be when Celestia herself destroyed the factory hundreds of years ago?" Twilight asked, eyeing the god up and waiting for him to start his response.
"Is That what they told You Twilight Sparkle, Hahahahahahaha, they really have kept you in the dark haven't they, your pure gods," Thanatos said with a hearty laugh.
"What are you talking about Thanatos?" Twilight said.
"Your great leaders leading perfect lives, even in a dimension of shadow, I seen their imperfections. Your lovely Princess here didn't destroy the factory, no no, she built the factory!" Thanatos said, smiling sinisterly.
Twilight's eyes sunk in and her breath quickened. "Tell me it's not True Celestia, tell me it's not true," She said to the elderly princess in front of her.
Celestia hung her head before whispering "It's true Twilight, it's true. I built the factory to be rid of those who worshiped Kaorn, but then it escalated to everypony who didn't follow my rule, but then I left the factory and tried to destroy it, but it's evil has remained,"
"You see Twilight, straight from the horse's mouth, but let's not stop there, how about your Princess Luna, who felt that her Purity was so important that she abandoned a foal that she birthed to seem that she was pure and virgin. And what of your teacher, Fury Flight, who killed thousands of innocent lives in his father's name," Thanatos said, looking at Twilight now, piercing her soul with his pale blue eyes.
Twilights anger had peaked, and her magic no longer followed her will. She screamed as her magic erupted and fired upon the two ponies, burning Celestia alive. Her screams sickened Twilight's ear, but the magic wouldn't stop, she would kill them all for what they did, then she would kill Thanatos and his army, but her magic backfired and came back at her.
"Tsk tsk Twilight, no need to become so angry, at least not yet," Thanatos said as his horn lit up. A portal opened up in the center of the room, and Thanatos ushered a few words of magic that Twilight didn't recognize, and then five alicorns flew from the portal. The same five alicorns that Twilight had seen in the past, these were the old gods. "Well Twilight, we would stay and chat, but we have a world to destroy, and no time to do it in, toodaloo." The six alicorns then took flight and flew to the world outside, and began their war against Equestria.
There was an explosion as the gods began their assault on Ponyville, and eventually all of equestria. Twilight wasn't worried about that at the moment, but looked to the charred corpse of Celestia in front of her. How could she do that, her magic just went crazy and power had flowed through her. She walked slowly to the body where she sat and began to cry. Even though Celestia had created that horrible place, she had tried to destroy it and had protected equestria for hundreds of years after. Her body was black and charred from the fire, and Twilight felt tears falling down from her cheeks. Just then, Celestia's eyes opened a sliver. Twilight began to panic, Celestia was suffering. Celestia began to reach out a hoof to Twilight.
"Don't worry Twi.. Twilight....., you did what you could, don't beat yourself up over this. I was bound to pay for that sometime Twilight, and I am glad it was you to bring about my end....." Celestia faltered as she said her last farewell to Twilight, who had been in tears as she listened.
"Celestia, CELESTIA..." Twilight said, but the alicorn had already crossed over. Twilight shed another tear as she called upon her magic. A spark ignited at Celestia's tail as a fire consumed the alicorn, but not like the fire before, this fire was gentle and caressed the body of the princess into the sky, where her ashes turned into that of the sky. The sky then began to let out a gentle and soothing rain, like the sky itself had began to cry over the loss of one of it's goddesses.
Twilight let out a few more tears before turning her attention to the door. Before she walked out though, a voice from the very air stopped her.
"Twilight, don't walk out that door yet," The voice of Fury Flight called out from everywhere.
"Fury Flight, your dead, how are you calling out to me?" Twilight asked the voice.
"Twilight Sparkle, you hear the voice of Kronos and you don't question it, but one of us comes back from the beyond to speak to you and you lose your shit," Fury's voice said, the beginnings of an apparition of him beginning to form before her.
"Sorry Fury, I am a little shook up right now, that's all, Thanatos returned and I just learned so much about the three of you that I didn't want to know," Twilight began. "I just killed Princess Celestia," she said, beginning to cry.
"Celestia dead, Thanatos returned, what else is new?" Fury said.
"WHAT!!" Twilight screamed, "YOU WANT SOMETHING NEW, THEN HOW LONG DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE RAINBOW FACTORY BEING UNDER CELESTIA'S CONTROL!!"
Fury looked surprised this time, "What, where did you here that from, Celestia would never..." Fury started, but Twilight cut him off.
"I heard it from Celestia herself, she created the factory to rid the world of Kaorn's followers," Twilight said, to a very distraught Fury.
"No, no she would never do that," Fury said, before looking to a window that shattered.
"Twilight, there will be a time to argue, but now I must tell you the way..." But Fury was cut off again.
"And what about Luna, he said that she abandoned a foal to remain pure and...." Twilight was cut off by a slap to the face. Even though Fury was a ghost, the hit still threw Twilight off guard.
"Don't you ever talk about Luna like that ever again Twilight, you don't know the half of it," Fury started, and then began to calm down. "Luna did give birth to a foal, but she never abandoned it, she was separated from her, when she was hit by the nightmare spell. The foal was born on the moon, and died of suffocation moments after...., she had been so proud of that foal, she was going to be her successor and take over so she could work on her constellations."
"And what of you Fury, did you kill thousands of innocent lives in your father's name?" Twilight asked.
"It wasn't like that Twilight, during the war, I was a different pony, war...., it changes you Twilight. I didn't kill innocent lives intentionally, Kaorn changed them into perverted alicorns, and only upon killing them did we find that they reverted back into their civilian state," Fury said, looking with aged and worn eyes towards the purple alicorn. "After that dread truth, we began working to find a way to cure the sick twisting will of Kaorn, and we found it in the elements." Fury said before moving to the window to look outside. "Is this the end Twilight? Will this be the end of time? The end of Pony kind? Or will in Equestria's greatest hour of need, will one rise to the challenge and defeat the old gods and restore harmony?" Fury said before dissipating.
Twilight looked to where Fury had been a second ago, and then moved to the window to look out at the destruction that had befallen Ponyville. She heard another explosion and then a flash of rainbow colors. She watched as the current bearers of the elements tried to hold off the force of Thanatos and the others, but they were hardly a tease for the gods. They smote the elements one by one, some by fire, some by water, and some by lightning. Twilight watched in agony as they tortured the last element, her former element, magic, until the young mare snapped and took her own life. Twilight screamed from the window as her magic took hold of her and blew out a hole in the wall large enough to fit the train through. She screamed as her magic sprang forth and doused the bodies of the elements, but then set the bodies of the gods aflame. She then brought with her magic elemental magic, controlling the very ground around her. She threw everything she had at them, but they simply brushed it off. Thanatos smiled as he watched the eternal guardian, the most powerful being in the known world fail to even dent them.
"Better luck next time Twilight," Thanatos said as he and the others disappeared, leaving Twilight with six new corpses to cry over.