Twilight flew across the massive library to a door locked tight, by chain and lock. The lock was golden in color and seemed to be made of a metal stronger than equestrian steel, and the chain that held the lock to the door was made of steel that seemed stronger than that of the lock. She looked the lock and chain up and down, looking for a weakness that could allow her to open the lock, but found none, the lock and chain were unbreakable by mere means, but Twilight had more than mere means on her side.
She called upon her alicorn magic and blasted the lock, but when the dust cleared, the lock remained. "Not even a dent, what kind of steel could withstand even alicorn magic?" Twilight asked herself aloud. The lock seemed to shine when she looked at it again, and the thought hit her that the steel was protected by magic beyond her own.
Twilight backtracked her thinking back to when fury was in the library a few moments ago, and to the words he said. "The door you seek is at the end of the library, locked by a spell that only guardian magic can break."
"That's it" Twilight thought as she looked at the spell surrounding the lock. "Guardian magic can break the lock," She said as she called upon the magic that had been given to her by the alicorn Fury Flight thousands of years in the future. She brought out the memory of meeting her friends that powered her guardian magic, and tried her spell again.
The magic struck the lock, and to her surprise, instead of breaking the lock, it unlocked and disappeared and the door opened up. The room that was inside the doorway was small, only holding one scroll. Twilight walked into the room slowly, feeling as though the silence was not to be disturbed inside. The silence was almost eerie, and had an ominous feeling to it. She walked to the end of the room where the scroll was placed honorably on a table that seemed to grow out of the floor. She picked the scroll up with her magic and felt a jolt go through her, as if the spell was protected by magic. The feeling disappeared as fast as it had come over her, and she turned to walk out of the room when she walked into a ghost of a pony, an alicorn, whose mane and tail were made out of Lightning.
"Twilight Sparkle," The alicorn whispered, "We have been waiting for you, to release us from Thanatos' grasp," it said, before disappearing.
Twilight gasped at the thought, that pony had been one of the five ponies that Thanatos had called from the past. Were they really wanting peace, and forced to fight, or was it a trick to make Twilight take pity on them. She thought on it for a second before walking out of the room and back into the world of the past, and prepared her magic to jump into her own time.
Her magic began to spark and crackle and her being was thrown into a black space as she traveled through thousands of years of equestrian history. She opened her eyes to see the blue eyes of Star Shadow looking at her with surprise.
"Hi Twilight, did you find what you were looking for?" Star Shadow asked as he helped Twilight up.
"Yes, but another mystery now is brought before me," Twilight said before turning to see where she had arrived at. She saw the castle of Ponyville, her castle, burning. The city had been destroyed and smoke was rising from the north.
Before Twilight could talk again however, she heard the sound of heavy hoof beats upon the ground, like the hammer striking the anvil. She turned to see the green alicorn walking towards her, a sword held in his magic.
"Before the rest of my brethren, I will smite you into your own castle, and finish what we started!!!" the old god said as he swung the sword at the purple alicorn that was before him.
Twilight dropped down to dodge the sword and rose up and called upon her magic and fired a spell at the god. The spell hit it's mark, but the god simply brushed off the effects. He then swung his sword again, and twilight brought up her shield to defend herself. The sword hit the shield, and shattered the shield and the sword. The old god looked at the hilt of his once great sword and dropped it. He then used his magic to pull his mace off of his back, and swung it, barely missing Twilight.
"I can't do this forever," Twilight thought as she dodged another blow from the mace. She could feel a deep magic beginning to boil inside her blood, and she decided to call upon the elemental magic that Fury had shown her in his later years. The very ground began to split and she controlled the rocks that arose from the ground. She then looked to the castle, and commanded the fire away from the walls and to her, where she made the fire into a rope and began to revolve it around her. The old god swung his mace and struck one of the rocks, but the mace blew out of his magic and flew away as the god began to back away from Twilight, who had called upon water from the stream that ran through Ponyville. The water came to her aid and like the fire, roped out and began to revolve around her. Smoke from around her began to form a sphere around her, but she commanded it to rope out and then the rest of the elements to spiral around each other and shot them towards the old god, who brought up a shield to protect him.
The Elements ran through the shield and the god screamed as they entered his heart, destroying the god. The body then caught fire as he fell, turning it into ash, which fell away like an autumn breeze.
Twilight's magic subsided as she watched the ashes of her opponent fall away, and sighed at the defeat of one of the six. She looked to where her enemy was, and now saw a ghostly image of him. Unlike before however, he was not in full battle armor, but in a robe of some sort, and had a look of peace on him.
"Thank you Twilight Sparkle, you have truly been a worthy opponent, and it was an honor to fall by your magic. I can now rest, never to see this world again and join my other brethren in the afterlife," The old god said before dissipating.
Twilight's thoughts had been confirmed, the old gods were fighting her as well as Thanatos, but why had he been glad to die at her magic. it was just one of the many questions that Twilight had and wanted to have answered, but it would have to wait.
She heard a yell and looked up at the sky to see an alicorn with a watery mane staring down with hatred at her.
"Ares dead, this cannot go unpunished!!" The god yelled as he called upon his own magic. Water from the stream and other bodies within a hundred miles. The massive wave of water joined it's master in the sky, and the god compressed the water and changed it into magic that he could use.
The god then brought the magic down upon Twilight, who called upon all of her magic to shield herself. The magic crashed upon her shield like a thousand waves upon the rocks, and then returned to the god. He brought the magic down again and again, and Twilight knew that she couldn't hold up against him forever, and began to think of a way out of it. The only possibility that came to her was to travel back in time, to regroup and regain her strength, even as her magic was still strong, the elemental magic took a lot out of her. She took down her shield as the god brought up all the magic for one final blast, to destroy her shield. She recited her time traveling spell and disappeared as the magic struck the ground, where she should of been. The god screamed in anger as his spell failed and then turned to return to a very unhappy Thanatos, who had just learned of Ares' death.
Twilight opened her eyes to See the blue eyes of Fury Flight again, but this time she was in a room that shown like gold, but had a sad feeling to it. She slowly rose to her feet and knew that Fury would want to know why she kept popping in and out like she was, and braced herself for telling him the truth, that she had failed in protecting equestria....