The End to every story

by Thestoryteller


Chapter three. The Times that were Missed. (part two)

Nightwing stormed down the hall. His mood was sour after his conversation with the High Council. The fact that he had been gone for thirteen years didn't help either. Luna covered the most of the important details. Nightwing told her to round up everyone into one room. It'd be much easier to break the news to everyone at once rather than separately.

But it wasn't the news of them being gone so long that worried Nightwing. Nightwing stopped and sighed, he was still a bit shaken up by the news. But there was no time for grieving, he had things to do and very little time to do it.

"Nightwing!"

Someone shouted his name. Before he could see who he was tackled by a grey blur. He dropped to the ground to fast and forced all the air out of his lungs. His five senses vanished for a split second, he couldn't hear, feel, smell, taste, or see. Then they returned.

Nightwing looked up and saw that a unicorn mare that he recognized had tackled him. "Dinkie?" Nightwing asked.

"I'm so sorry Mr. Nightwing." A stallion earth pony stood next to him. "I tried to stop her but...well...let's face it, I couldn't stop her even if I had the power to."

"First Base?" Nightwing asked, his mind half awake.

"See?" Dinkie looked to First Base. "Told you he'd recognize us."

First Base rolled his eyes. "Well I thought that maybe he wouldn't. It's been so long."

"It's nice to see you two are all buddy buddy. But can you please get off of me?" Nightwing asked.

"Oh right." Dinkie giggled, getting off of Nightwing. "Sorry about that."

Nightwing groaned as he raised himself up. "So...what've you been up to?" Nightwing asked, unsure how he was supposed to talk to Dinkie.

"Well I've been catching up on a lot of my spells. My mom owns a muffin shop in ponyville. And First Base is my coltfriend." Dinkie said.

"Really? Okay then." Nightwing said uneasy.

Dinkie frowned. "You don't remember me do you?"

"Whaaaat? Don't be ridiculous, of course I remember you." Nightwing said.

"Really? Then tell me, what was it that you called me when that metal giant attacked me?" Dinkie asked.

"The Prophet." Nightwing answered quickly.

"A-ha you don't.....wait what?" Dinkie looked perplexed.

"Your the descendant of the Prophet. A being that was able to see everything's actions and determine the future based on those actions. But however at a young age the Prophet doesn't have complete control of the visions. Instead the Prophet is only capable of seeing random occurrences. These occurrences are also known to cause the Prophet to often times sleep walk and draw scribbles of their visions. Sound familiar?" Nightwing explained.

Dinkie stared at Nightwing with her mouth slightly agape. "...maybe a little." She sighed in defeat.

"Speaking of which I have two things to ask you. How on earth did Derpy beat that thing?" Nightwing asked.

"Oh that?...I'm not to sure I guess she just beat it with a shovel." Dinkie shrugged.

"Yes but how did she beat it with a shovel? That's what I want to know." Nightwing added.

"She just used a shovel. I guess we now know the truly most powerful weapon in Equestria, Derpy with a Shovel." Dinkie said.

Nightwing was about to oppose till the thought of Derpy attacking him with shovel scared the shi-er doo doo out of him. "Okay, gonna have that nightmare for a while now." Nightwing muttered. "Anyways, second thing. How have you been doing with those visions of yours?"

"Actually," First Base spoke up. "She hasn't been having visions lately."

"Well...there is one that I wanted to talk to you about." Dinkie said, avoiding eye contact with Nightwing. "I've been having the same vision six times now."

"What's this vision about?" Nightwing asked.

"I'm...I'm in ponyville. I'm helping Pip and my Mom bake muffins. Then...there's a loud noise. We all rush out to see what happened, only for us to find...something in the sky." Dinkie said, her voice full of pain as she recalled her vision. "There's a crack in the sky...it opens up and...something comes out."

Nightwing was all ears when he heard the word's 'crack in the sky'. "And what came out?"

"I don't know...it looked like a pony, but...but at the same time it felt different. Like it was something else. I don't know how to describe it...but it felt like...like the devil himself had entered the world."

"And then?" Nightwing asked, hoping that he wouldn't be left on a cliff hanger.

"And then nothing. The vision goes away." Dinkie says.

"Drat...thank you for telling me this, if you'll excuse me...I have some friends to catch up with." Nightwing said as he started to turn away, before Dinkie teleported in front of him.

"What does it mean Nightwing?" Dinkie asked.

"I don't say this often...but I honestly don't know." Nightwing said walking past Dinkie.

As he continued down the halls a voice in his head echoed words that he hoped to have forgotten.

Doomed. Your world is doomed. It will end in fire and blood. All hope will die, along with your kind. This world will End and It will destroy all you love."

They were words that Nightwing never truly understood what they meant. His kind was already dead, he knew that already. But there were so many questions that had no answered and that agitated Nightwing.

"Why hello there."

Speaking of agitation's.

Discord hung upside down from the ceiling, a pair of fake vampire fangs in his mouth.

"Wa'sh up." Discord slurred, his speech affected by the fake fangs.

"Discord, I'm going to give you the count of three for you to take those things out of your mouth before I rip those and your real teeth out." Nightwing threatened.

"Oh come on Nig'shwing. Lighten up a little will sh'a?" Discord joked, flying down.

"Three."

Nightwing's body glowed blue, he raised his hoof and a wolf's claw made out of blue magic engulfed his foreleg. The claw reached towards Discord and grabbed the fake fang's. With a heavy pull Nightwing ripped the fake fangs out of Discord's mouth.

Discord's reacted by placing his hands over his mouth, "OW!" He yelled. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!"

"I warned you." Nightwing said, the blue claw evaporated. "I'm not in the mood to deal with you right now."

"Well to bad." Discord teleported himself in front of Nightwing. "You and I need to have a serious talk."

"Ha! You, serious? Please." Nightwing chuckled.

"Nightwing this is a very serious matter. I need to know what your status is on the Elements of Chaos?" Discord asked.

"The Elements of Chaos?" Nightwing repeated. "In case you haven't noticed I've been rather busy lately."

"Busy?! What could possibly be more important?"

"I was trapped on the moon for thirteen years." Nightwing said.

"I was trapped in a book for a million-"

Thousand

"-Shut up-years. And look at me, I've done a lot with my time."

Nightwing rolled his eyes. "Look, I can't tell you much but I'm pretty sure that I've found four of them."

"Four is good, it's better than three." Discord nodded. "Which ones have you found?"

"Well if I remember right...Flash has the Element of Shadow, Soarin has the Element of Sky, Thorn has the Element of Nature, and Lightning Strike-" Nightwing winced when he said his name. "...Lightning Strike had the Element of Scorch."

"Ah yes...I remember seeing it in his body. It must still be there, so I'm going to need you to dissect him and get it out of him." Discord concluded.

"What?!"

"What do you mean 'what'?" It's clear as to what you must do. I mean we're not just gonna leave one of worlds most powerful weapons in a corpse are we?" Discord asked.

"Refer to Lightning Strike as a Corpse and I will choke you with your eyes." Nightwing threatened.

"Easy, easy." Discord said in a calming voice. "I meant no harm by it. Besides, it's not like his death was peaceful or anything. I mean his heart was ripped out of his chest. You can't call something like that a peaceful death."

"...fine." Nightwing said defeated. "I'll remove the Jem from Lightning Strike."

"That's all I wanted." Discord said, snapping his fingers he vanished.

After his encounter with Discord, Nightwing found himself walking down the hallway once more. His day kept on getting worse and worse. First he found out that he and his friends had disappeared from Equestria, next Lightning Strike was dead, There's an empire full of Griffon's who aren't on good terms with Equestria, the High Council isn't happy with what Nightwing had done, and now he had to dissect his dead friend because an ancient artifact was stuck in his body.

Could the day get any worse for Nightwing? The answer might surprise you.

Nightwing had told Luna to have everyone gathered up in the Throne room. Luckily, despite the long time he had been gone, the castle's architecture didn't change. So Nightwing was able to find his way to the Throne room.

The double doors to the room was opened by Nightwing. Inside was Luna, Flash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Cheese Sandwich, Rarity, Silver Platter, Applejack, Ranger, Thorn, Soarin, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and someone else.

A unicorn mare, with light purple fur, purple mane and tail with a light blue stripe on it, and had purple eyes. Her name was Starlight Glimmer, and Nightwing knew all to well who she was. The moment he saw her he growled, "You!"

The next moments were a blur. Before Starlight could take her next breath Nightwing summoned a massive blue aura wolf five times the size of him. The Wolf roared as its claw grabbed Starlight's neck and pinned her against the wall. Leaving an impact crack were she was being held.

"Nightwing stop!" Flash shouted.

But Nightwing didn't listen. His ears refused to listen to what anyone else had to say. Everyone ran towards him, hoping that in some way they could stop him. Nightwing saw what they were planning on doing and with his magic he constructed a blue bubble around him. Everyone banged against the bubble, yelling, roaring at Nightwing to stop. But their cry's were drowned out.

"You were there." Nightwing said to Starlight as she desperately gasped for breath. "You were on the moon. You with Her." Nightwing said with venom. "You were with the Order. Weren't you?"

Starlight continued to choke.

"WEREN'T YOU?!! Nightwing roared, the grip on Starlight tightened.

"ENOUGH!"

The bubble that shielded Nightwing shattered as Luna bursted through it and punched Nightwing with so much force that it made him soar and hit the wall. His concentration broken, the blue Wolf evaporated. Starlight fell, and gasped for air. Nightwing stood up and looked to Starlight. Then Luna stood in front of Nightwing, between him and the injured Starlight.

"Move." Nightwing growled.

"No." Luna responded.

The temperature in the room dropped ten degrees. Luna stared down her student Nightwing, her face showing no fear or hesitation.

"I'm sorry."

Nightwing looked past Luna to Starlight, who was shaking as she started to weakly stand up. "I'm so sorry...I never wanted anyone to die...I was just-"

"Just what? Thought you were doing the right thing?" Nightwing shot at Starlight. "Moonstone was going to destroy Equestria. She was going to kill every single life that live in Equestria. And you thought that was right?"

"She never told me-"

"She never told you?! That's even more stupid!" Nightwing shouted. "Your telling me that you followed Moonstone blindly?!"

"That's enough Nightwing." Luna said sternly. "She knows what she has done. And she regrets it."

"And somehow that makes her a good guy?!" Nightwing shouted, anger in his voice. "Just because you say your sorry doesn't fix what you've done. All it is is nothing more than a pointless and hollow word that ponies say, hoping that it will fix everything they've done. Newsflash Starlight, it doesn't!"

"I said enough!" Luna repeated, her horn started to glow.

"Luna stop." Starlight said, resting herself against the wall. "Please...stop defending me."

"Starlight-" Twilight to a step forward.

"Don't." Starlight croaked, tears streaming down her cheeks. "Nightwing is right. Saying sorry isn't going to fix what I've done. Whatever Nightwing does to me, I deserve it."

"That's not true!" Flash said.

"It is true. I did horrible things, I experimented on creatures, I warped and twisted the minds of those Moonstone saw as our enemy. I killed for her without any hesitation or sign of weakness." Starlight said through tears. "Luna...step aside, let me face my judgement."

Luna stared at Starlight before looking away from her. She faced the floor, stepping aside. Nightwing started walking forward. Step by step he took, getting closer and closer to Starlight. His Crystal glowed blue and a blue sword of magic floated next to him. Nightwing stopped, he stood in front of Starlight, who looked down at the floor.

Nightwing reached forward and lifted Starlight's chin. Starlight gazed with emptiness in her eyes into the eyes of Nightwing. His eyes were full of anger and hatred. They demanded one thing and one thing only.

Blood.

The sword floated in front of Starlight's face. The sword readied itself, Starlight closed her eyes, as she awaited her end.

Nightwing stood there. Starlight's life to be taken away by his sword. But he didn't, he stood there. The sword didn't sway or twitch, instead it stood still, waiting for Nightwing to use the weapon. Nightwing stood there. His rage and hatred no longer occupied his mind. Nightwing stood there. He thought to himself, 'what good would killing her do?' It wouldn't bring back Lightning Strike, it wouldn't solve anything. All it would do is cause more bloodshed and death.

Nightwing stood there. And the sword disappeared. "Sorry is still a hollow word." Nightwing said, embracing Starlight. "But I hope you can still forgive me for what I did."

More tears started to roll down her cheeks, as she embraced Nightwing with a hug of her own.

"Alrighty then." Nightwing said, turning away from Starlight and back towards the group. "So as some of you know we've been gone for thirteen years. Which means we have a lot of catching up to do. For starters, everyone that you knew has aged thirteen years, in case that wasn't obvious. The next thing is that I may or may not have accidentally created and Empire for the Yaks and Griffon's who aren't on good terms with us. Other than that I've got nothing." Nightwing explained.

"So what do we do now?" Thorn asked.

"What do you mean what do we do? Isn't it obvious?" No response. "We go and catch up with relatives, siblings, family, friends, enemies. Find out what's been going on in the time we've all missed."

"And what will you do?" Flash asked.

"I'm going to go talk with someone that Teach wants me to meet. In the meantime I expect all of you to figure out what happened while you were gone. And I want you all to tell me everything when I get back."

With that Nightwing left the room. Luna following behind him. Once he was gone Twilight ran up to Starlight.

"Are you alright?" She asked with concern. "Can you stand?"

"Yeah...I can." Starlight groaned.

"Nightwing shouldn't have done that. He went to far." Twilight frowned.

"No...Nightwing had every right to kill me. He should've to-"

"Don't think like that." Flash said.

Starlight looked to Flash. "How can you say something like that? Lightning Strike was your brother wasn't he? Aren't you a bit sad that he's gone?"

"Course I'm sad. But being sad isn't going to solve anything right now. I'll grief for him at his funeral. But right now we should do as Nightwing says and find out what we've missed." Flash said turning away and walking towards the door.

Twilight looked at Flash with worry as he walked out of the room. "Twilight."

To her left was Fluttershy, who had the same look as Twilight. "Yes Fluttershy?" Twilight asked.

"I'm worried about Flash. He seems more...cold than normal." Fluttershy said.

"I'm worried to. Maybe I can talk to him and find out what's-"

"You will do no such thing." Fluttershy snapped. "I haven't forgotten what you did to him Twilight. And frankly...I have to have agree with Nightwing. Sorry isn't going to fix what you've broken. You have to fix what you did to him. And if you won't...then I don't think you and I can be friend's." Fluttershy turned away from Twilight. "Come on Thorn, we have to go to Everfree. I'm sure that's where I am needed."

Once Fluttershy and Thorn left Twilight sighed. "What did you do?" Starlight asked.

"I screwed up. Big time." Twilight laid her head on Starlight's belly.

Starlight started to laugh. "I guess even the princess of Friendship makes mistakes."

"You don't get it Starlight. You heard what Fluttershy said, if I can't fix what I've done I'm going to loose her. I don't want to loose my friend." Twilight choked.

"Then why don't you fix what you've broken?" Starlight asked.

"That's just it, I don't think I can."


While Twilight and Starlight were talking, Ranger turned to Applejack and said, "I think we should head back to the farm. I wonder what my family and yours have been through while we were gone?" Ranger asked. "Applejack?"

"Huh?" Applejack swung her head towards Ranger. "Oh, I'm sorry Ranger...my mind's been a wandering ever since I...since I saw ma sister."

"She's here?" Ranger asked. "Well that's great, come on, let's go say hi to her." Ranger started to walk towards the door. Only to be stopped as Applejack grabbed his hind leg. What's the matter?" No response. "Applejack...something's bothering you, I can tell. Please just tell me what's wrong."

"I'm...I'm scared."

Ranger stared at Applejack with mixture of confusion and worry. "Your scared?" Ranger repeated. "What are you scared of?"

"Seeing them." Applejack answered. "I'm scared of talking to them."

"Your family?"

Applejack nodded.

"Why are you scared of that?" Ranger asked. Applejack releasing his hind leg. "Your family would be overjoyed to see you. Why won't you let them see you?"

"I...I don't want to see them...because...because..." Applejack took a deep breath and gathered her thoughts. "Because I've missed so much."

"That's it?" Applejack glared at Ranger. "I mean...yeah that is completely understandable, I understand completely what your going through and respect whatever your decision is." Ranger said in a panic.

"Come on." Applejack sighed in annoyance, grabbing Ranger the ear. She dragged him towards the door.

"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Ranger whined, lifting his head up to make Applejack's tugging less painful. "Was it something I said?"


Luna and Nightwing walked down the hallway in silence. An awkwardness surrounded them after Nightwing had tried to kill Starlight. Nightwing couldn't blame Luna for being silent. What with the fact he stood her down and didn't show any fear. So he said nothing, he simply kept his mouth shut as the two walked down the hall. Until the silence became pretty much unbearable.

"Okay enough of this." Nightwing sighed. "Who is it that your taking me to go meet?"

"Someone that owes everything to you." Luna answered, not facing Nightwing.

"That...doesn't really help. Your gonna have to be more specific, cause I know a lot of ponies that owe everything to me."

Luna stopped, she tried to hold it in but couldn't prevent herself from laughing. "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" She bursted out.

Nightwing frowned. "What? There are plenty of ponies that owe everything to me." Luna started to laugh harder. "...Why are you my teacher again?" Nightwing muttered to himself, walking away from Luna.

"I'm...I'm sorry." Luna gasped between laugh's. "But...but you haven't been the heroic type Nightwing."

"Whatever. Hero's are boring anyways. Where is this pony that I'm supposed to meet?" Nightwing asked.

"She's...she's in my bedroom." Luna continued to laugh.

"Why didn't you say that in the first place?"

Nightwing lifted his Crystal and both he and Luna vanished. Only to reappear in Luna's bedroom. Nightwing teleported himself on the floor but teleported Luna just a few feet above the floor. Once gravity did its thing, Luna fell onto her back.

"Ow!" She hissed.

"Next time don't make fun of me Teach." Nightwing grinned. "Now where is the so called pony who 'owes me her everything'?"

Nightwing scanned the room until his eyes landed on a mare sitting at the window.

"Hey you?" Nightwing got the attention of the mare. "Are you the one I'm supposed to talk to?

The mare stared at Nightwing. Her mouth slightly agape. "Well say something will you?"

The mare slowly closed her mouth. She stood up and started to walk towards Nightwing. "Are.....are you.....him?"

"Him? You mean me?" Nightwing pointed to himself. "My name is Nightwing. Who are you?"

The mare stopped. And then bolted towards Nightwing. Wrapping herself around Nightwing she tackled him down. "You are him!" The mare squealed.

"OOF!" Nightwing grunted. "Hey, who the heck are you?!" Nightwing demanded.

"I told you already Nightwing." Luna stood up. "She's someone who owes everything to you."

"Your gonna have to be more specific Teach." Nightwing groaned, his sides being crushed.

"She's the filly you saved, you gave her a name, you turned her to stone. Nightwing this is Shade. The vampire Batpony you saved." Luna explained.

Nightwing froze. His mind flooded with memories of the little filly hybrid he turned to stone. "Oh." He said. "......OH!"

"Do you remember me, Nightwing?" Shade's tongue tingled upon saying his name.

"Yeah...I do." Nightwing said. "So can you please get off of me before you crush me?" Nightwing asked.

"Sorry." Shade blushed, getting off of Nightwing she backed away from him.

"Thank you. So...how long have been unfrozen?" Nightwing asked, getting up.

"Twelve years. Exactly." Luna answered. "It took me a while to figure out how to undo the spell but in due time I was able to remove it."

"Wow...look at you." Nightwing examined Shade. "And to think, it was literally just yesterday that you were the size of an infant." That's when realization hit Nightwing. 'Wait...when young vampire Batponies can only eat blood. Also they go through a stage known as bloodlust, when the young one becomes an absolute beast and will stop at nothing from devouring blood."

"I fed her." Luna answered.

"I know that but how?" Nightwing asked.

"Well...I suppose the correct way to put it is... She fed off of me." Luna corrected.

Nightwing looked at Luna with wide eyes. "What?! How are you alive?! She must've drunk gallons from you!"

"I was able to sustain myself by creating substantial blood. It might not have been the real thing, but it helped increase the regeneration rate of my blood cells."

"Oh...I see." Nightwing looked back to Shade. "So...how've you been?"

"Oh just wonderful." Shade smiled. "Luna taught me everything. How to read and write, speak Equestrian, learn about history, and also math."

"It sounds like Teach tried to replace me." Nightwing grinned at Luna. "So, why did you want to see me?"

"I have so many questions I want to ask you. But...there is one of that I must know." Shade's smile faded, her eyes looked to the floor. "What happened to my mother?"

Nightwing looked away from Shade. He remembered what had happened to Shade's mother all to well. She had been captured, tied to a post, and was killed by multiple arrows striking her in the chest. "Shade...I'm sorry but..." Nightwing choked on his words. "Your mother...your mother is dead...I tried to save her, I really did...but I was to late."

"I see." Shade looked up from the floor and back to Nightwing, a smile on her face. "Thank you for telling me."

"Your not...sad?" Nightwing said with confusion.

"Why should I be?" Shade asked. "I never knew my mother, if anything Luna is the only real mother I actually have."

Luna beamed at that. "O-kay...so what else do you want to talk about?" Nightwing asked.

"I want you to tell me about your adventure's." Shade said.

"My adventure's?" Nightwing repeated. "Well alright. Where should I begin?"

"At the very beginning." Shade answered.


"Fluttershy."

Fluttershy pretended to ignore Thorn as she continued to storm down the halls.

"Fluttershy." Thorn repeated.

Fluttershy continued to ignore him.

"Fluttershy. Stop."

A wall of green vines and branches erupted from the floor, blocking Fluttershy's path. Fluttershy turned to Thorn and said, "Move the wall Thorn." She said coldly.

"No." Thorn said sternly. "Fluttershy something is going on with you. And we're going to sit here until you tell me what's going on."

"Now is not the time Thorn." Fluttershy glared.

"Now is the only time. Fluttershy you can trust me, please tell me what's going on."

"What's going on? What's going on?!" Fluttershy yelled. "What's going on is that everything is...is...is going to shit." She cursed. "Flash, my brother, someone who I care for and love, has had his mind twisted and warped by...by that...Witch!" Fluttershy spat, the vines behind her started to turn brown and black. "And my other Brother, Lightning Strike, is dead. How am I supposed to react Thorn?! Just put on a smile and say 'It's okay. Everypony makes mistakes'." She mocked her kind self. "Well this is not okay." Fluttershy started to march towards Thorn, who began to take steps back in fear. "If they all think I'm gonna put on a smile and pretend that everything is alright, then their all in for a huge surprise. I'm done being nice. I'm done letting ponies push me around. I'm done being kind."

Fluttershy grabbed Thorn by his throat and pulled him to her. "Now when I say 'Move the wall'. Fluttershy isn't asking you to 'move the wall'. The Arbor Susurro is ordering you to 'move the wall'."

"Tell me. Would the Arbor Susurro choke one of her own subjects?" Thorn asked.

Fluttershy became aware of what she was doing. Her hoof was clasped against Thorns throat, not completely chocking him. Fluttershy's hooves shook as she removed her hoof from Thorn's throat. Her hoof covered her mouth as tears started to form in her eyes. She collapsed onto the floor. Thorn bent down and hugged her, doing his best to give her comfort.

Fluttershy buried her face into Thorn's chest. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." She wept.

"Shhhh...it's okay. Your right, this day has been awful. But that doesn't mean you have to go through this alone." Thorn lifted Fluttershy's chin. "I promise, I'll always be by your side no matter what."

"You promise?"

"Till Earth and Sky become one."


Far off in Equestria there lies a forest. Full of lush green pine trees and mountain's behind the forest. The mighty pine tree's stood tall, gently rocking in the breeze. The air was crisp and cool.

And in an instant it changed from crisp and cool to scorching hot as a burst of flames mowed down a line of trees. What was once strong and healthy trees were now burnt and splintered pieces of wood. Small animals scattered away as more fire rained down on the forest. Reducing it to pieces of splintered wood and ash.

Fire rained down once more, burning a circle into the forest. The forest shook as a massive beast landed itself in the circle of ash and fire. The beast was massive, it's long neck stretched past the trees. The beast had sharp, dark green eyes, with black slits for pupils. It had red scales all across its fat and plump body. Bat-like wings were attached to his arms, which had razor sharp talons. The beast was a dragon, a fat one at that.

A wicked smile appeared across the dragon's face. Pleased with what he had done to the forest. The dragon started to laugh, the dragon's throat turned bright orange as it unleashed another burst of fire upon the forest.

"Run, run, little critters." The dragon's deep voice chuckled, watching as helpless animals ran for lives away from the dragon. "Run as far as you can. But you will become ash either way."

"Well that's a shame."

The dragon stood up, and looked to his left.

"This forest was very peaceful. Until you came that is."

Flying next to the dragon's head was a pony stallion. A tall one too. He had a light brown coat, a dark green mane that sparkled and twinkles, emerald green eyes. He had a cutie mark of the Workd on his flank. And was an Alicorn.

"Who are you?" The dragon hissed.

"I suppose I've been gone for a while. It's no wonder that beast's like you have forgotten who I am." The Alicorn said.

"What did you call me?" The dragon asked, his throat started to shine brightly. "You best use your words carefully around me pony."

"Aww that's cute. You think that I'm lesser than you. That's adorable." The Alicorn smiled.

"I've had enough of you!" The dragon roared, opening his mouth. "BURN!"

The dragon released an inferno of fire upon the Alicorn. The Dragon looked to where the pony stood and smiled.

"You call that fire?"

The dragon became wide eyed.

Before him stood another Alicorn Stallion. The same height as the last one, but had a black coat, a red mane that had tiny white dots in it that sparkled. His eyes were crimson red, and he had a cutie mark of a fire with chains around it.

The Alicorn scoffed. "Your nothing more than a kid playing with matches." His horn glowed red and a ball of fire appeared on the tip of his horn. "Now this. This is fire."

And just like that, half the forest was incinerated.

*KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

A massive beam of fire exploded from the alicorns horn. Engulfing half the forest and the mountain behind in a massive burst of fire. The forest turned to black ash, and the mountain behind it looked to have a large hole in it where the beam had struck. As for the dragon...the only thing that remained was its bones. And with a simple tab from the Alicorn,

The bones turned to dust.