Unforgiven Winter

by Rambo

Revelations

Note: Charlie has a Gold coat with Red mane : Victor has a Red coat with a Gold mane. in case you all get them confused.
Note 2: Revelations was TOO long. I'll go into detail about that at the end.

Being a royal guard has its benefits, you train to be both mentally and physically strong; but even the strongest of soldiers in all of Equestria still have emotions. For the first time Twilight had seen not a guard weep, but her friend weep. Twilight began to walk over towards him at an attempt to comfort and ease his mind. Both of the friends locked in a hug that had forced tears to start running from the eyes of Hubert down to Twilight's mane which overlapped his shoulder.

"I'm sorry Twilight, I'm sorry Hubert, but if we continue to mourn over lost ones; including you Twilight on still mourning over me, then we lose everything. WE need to be STRONG. Tearing us apart is only the first step in her plan. Twilight, you have nothing to do with our deaths so don't build any feelings towards that subject, I can assure you this entire thing was after you..." he paused for a few seconds examining the knocked out bodies of the twin stallions laying on the balcony before he finished his sentence. "After you turned me down... but enough of that, we need to focus on more important matters"

Kale was no doctor even in the time that he was alive but everyone has to know a small amount of medical conditions. By now everyone should know when someone catches flu, fever, or maybe gets a cut or broken bone. The only trouble with the current problem is that with the current condition of black and white scenery, it didn't help much to look. He knew that Charlie and Victor were fine; he was only checking them to hopefully kill the awkward moment he spawned into the atmosphere.

Twilight patted Hubert on the back a few times to indicate for him to let go. He obliged and wiped the tears away with his scarred and injured wings. "So what now? How are Charlie and Victor holding up?" asked Twilight while she was examining Rainbow Dash's chest wound where she had stabbed her. It took a few seconds for the words to process through Kale's mind before he could give an appropriate answer to her.

"What do you mean 'what now?' Twi? If you haven't noticed, there is no more color around here anymore. This whole place looks like something out of a bleak movie of some sort. It's as if Rainbow herself reversed the world with some spell Syra casted when she took over, ironic if you ask me considering she's the colorful of the 6 of you" Kale finished saying.

Hubert stopped weeping for the loss of his love and at last had spoken after several minutes of mourning. "So what? You don't really expect me to wait until morning for us to finally take action!"

"I'm afraid that's all we can do Hubert, wait out until morning to see if everyone is ok and to find out the next step in Syra's mischief" Twilight said sorrowful. She kept examining Rainbow Dash's body and started to turn her head from left to right to see if there was any clue to reveal if there is any kind of familiar traces of Syra. "Besides..." She paused momentarily to lean in closer on RD's face; "It's not like sleeping is even an option for us after what we -UGHF"

Twilight was knocked back forcing her to do a backflip and landed on her belly. On the side of her cheek was a hoof shaped print of ice along with a small bruise on the outer edges of where the ice was. Kale, Twilight, and Hubert all looked towards the direction of Rainbow Dash so see what had knocked Twilight backwards off her hooves.

By the time everyone had their eyes pointing in their direction of what was claimed to be "deceased friend", what they saw had questioned their beliefs in not only spirits, but on also how the afterlife works.

"What the F*** is going right now?!" exclaimed Hubert in frightened tone.

For the strangest reason, Rainbow Dash was floating just a little above the ground where the puddle of blood formed. Her wings somehow grew larger and she flapped them slowly but with a strong push every time they went down. Her mane was in an absolute mess that covered the front of her face completely. She was looking downwards at the snowy ground without giving off any movement other than her wings giving a powerful thrust.

"Twilight, what kind of sick magic did you do to her!" Hubert shouted straight at Twilight's face. She had no words or correct emotion to what she was witnessing but one thing was clear to her that no one else saw, that wasn't the same Dash everyone else made her out to be.

"Hubert... Hubert"

Kale and Twilight were both nervously moving in place hoping whatever the next act that plays is, it won't harm them or anybody else in the proximity. "Ace! ACE! Oh thank Celestia you're ok!" Hubert's night was once again filled with color, and the black'n white scenery to him was nothing more than an illusion. Just as he was charging towards his supposed lost love, Twilight stepped in front of him to block him off. "Listen to me, and listen to me clear Hubert... that isn't the Rainbow Dash you make her out to be, that's only Syra in there, don't be a fool!"

Hubert narrowed menacingly at Twilight before he knocked her aside onto the ground. "Don't get in my way you animal! It was because of you that she died and now that she's back, we can finally be together again. Get in my way again and I swear it to you, I won't be pushing you aside next time". His tone in voice was a threat that shouldn't be questioned or reasoned with. As much as Twilight didn't want Hubert to get near her, the thought that her friend Hubert from long ago turning against her, made her realize he was in a rage.

"Listen to our friend Hubert, don't get near her and don't ever threaten her like that again"

"Shut that mouth of yours Kale, just because you kept it on a down low that you and Twilight were having some horizontal bopping, doesn't mean that word didn't spread around"

An awkward tension filled the air and both Twilight and Kale took a double take on each other not understanding what he meant.

"Wait what?" questioned Twilight
"...I don't either Twilight... I don't know either"

"I'm here sweetie, I'm here! Oh thank Celestia you're okay, for a second there I thought you were gone, out of my life forever! But I knew you still had that same fighting spirit from back in Laos" Hubert said as he rushed to meet Rainbow Dash face to face. He had tears streaming down his eyes when he was about to hug her in happiness, until her wings grew enormously large. Extensions of ice and snow increased the size of Rainbow Dash's wingspan by a large margin, almost as big as herself. Before the doomed royal guard could notice, the massive freezing wings had pushed his entire body up against Dash's.

"Oh Hubert...come with me, let's...let's"
"Honey, you're gripping me a little too tight, I know you're happy to see me again but do you mind setting me down? Also "let's" what sweetie?"
"Let's...LET'S DANCE WITH THE ANGELS!"

Rainbow Dash flipped her mane back to reveal her opened eyes. Out of her eye sockets were two magnificent beams of rainbows and various other colors were spewing out straight into Hubert's eyes. The sounds of a thousand trapped souls gave the beams sound and character.

"MY EYES! MY BUCKING EYES!" Hubert screamed in absolute pain. He was released almost instantly after his screams of pain satisfied his lover. "SYRA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, I WON'T LET YOU LIVE AFTER WHAT YOU DID!" Kale was consumed by his own anger forcing him to attack Rainbow Dash head-on. He bolted in a flight in an attempt to tackle down Rainbow Dash, leaving a trail of blue ice fire.

"You always were full of yourself, did you know that Kale?" the possessed rainbow drained pegasus dropped Hubert straight on his back which sounded with a loud "thump". Sapphire flames engulfed Kale's pupils when he was merely inches away from the ravaging demon. Syra twirled around to produce a powerful wave of wind which slowed down Kale's velocity by a tremendous amount, enough for him to be vulnerable to be attacked. Razor blade icicles formed on the edges of her talons and with another twirl, laid a clean cut on Kale's chest.

Hubert was still on the ground screaming that his eyes felt as if they were burnt and he couldn't see anything. Blue flames shot out like a raging geyser from Kale's open wound onto Syra. Much like a napalm substance, it stuck onto her even as she spun around hoping the flames would come off. With another powerful gust of wind, she sent Kale flying towards the edge of the balcony, smashing the guardral, sending him plummeting down the summit.

Twilight had faith that he would be able to get his balance back and he'll be flying once again, besides, he was a ghost after all, it's not like he can die right? Once the flames were put out, Syra was starting to see the after effects of the freezing fire and attempted to regenerate the damaged limbs with ice, it was of no use, she was controlling a body of a mortal, healing a mortal body with snow isn't going to do anything but delay further damage. She looked back down on the ground at a wailing blinded pegasus and picked him up off the ground."I still have one loose end to tie!" she yelled straight onto his face. Upon saying those words, Syra locked lips with Hubert in what seemed to be a kiss to Twilight when in reality, she was transferring something into his body, through mouth to mouth.

Syra broke the kiss slowly and wiped the small bit of drool that Hubert left on her lower lip. She laid a menacing grin on her face and dropped Hubert back onto the ground. He landed right on his flank and sat their without moving at all. She launched a volley of snowballs and iceballs towards Twilight which she quickly reacted to and either dodged or blasted them with a bolt of magic. "Ugh...what happened?" sighed out Charlie in confusement, having just woken up from his knock out. Before he even had a second to open look around and adapt to the situation, one of the snowballs hit him straight between the eyes, knocking him unconscious yet again. Gusting out 3 more thrusts with her enormous wings, she flew high into the sky with the 3rd thrust and flew off the balcony, into the night. Her evil laughter could be heard even as she flew far away with only her silhouette showing up on the full moon's view.

All Twilight could do was watch her fly off into the distance, off into the mountains leaving behind a very very small trail of blue flame as she went, as if the flames that were spewed on her weren't fully extinguished yet. Twilight looked on the smashed guardrail to listen to the strong flaps of wings churning the cold wind. Kale had risen from the summit with his entire once black mane, blazing a powerful blue fire."Where is she?! WHERE IS SHE?!" he yelled at Twilight. The mare had no response to his demanding words and instead only pointed towards the many mountains whom's tips touched the skies.

"Oh no... oh no no no no no no... damnit! GOD DAMNIT!" his voice thundered and shook all the ice off of their wooden platform. He had his back towards Twilight and walked to the edge of the broken guardrail where Syra had thrown him off. "Is there something wrong Kale?" the lone unicorn asked cautiously at the raging semi-ghost figure. For a moment he didn't answer and then turned around to face Twilight again; shaking his head. "Yes... something is very very wrong Twilight" he paused to heal his wounds with the snow both falling and from the ground. It was like a strange magic Twilight could never comprehend. Kale's wound was like a magnet that attracted all the particles of ice to his wound, slowly sealing it and having no scars.

"We need to stop her before tomorrow night or else her evils not only finish us off, but it will haunt our loved ones and us in the afterlife... even in death, we won't rest in peace" Kale said slowly. They both looked out towards the moon seeing Syra's silhouette become smaller and small before it looked as if she had stopped. Kale narrowed his eyes to try and cover himself from a bit of the moon light's glares. His flaming mane was back to it's normal black color and his eyes were back to their regular shade of light brown. Twilight just kept staring at him, admiring him for saving her and for rethinking her decision she had made so many years ago.

"Ughhhhh... what happened?" Victor asked, waking up from his "nap". He stood up adjusting to the scenario, limping slowly towards the two friends. Twilight turned to see her bettered red friend's left foreleg have a small piece of wood lodged into it. "Oh sweet Celestia! Victor, are yo-" she was shocked to see his action. Victor put up his foreleg and with his teeth, yanked out the stake-like wood. "I'm fine, this is nothing compared to what I had to experience in Laos... what's up with Hue?" . Victor pointed at Hubert -who was still sitting on his flank looking down- with the wooden stake he pulled out from his leg. "Oh my, he doesn't seem to be alright"

Twilight rushed to meet him and stopped dead track on her hooves when he spoke... but when he spoke, it wasn't exactly... "his voice".

"Say, what's going on here? Where'd that b**** go?! If I see her again I swear i'm going to beat her down to a pulp; why do I feel so heavy?" Hubert jumped straight up from his sitting position and started to loosen up his muscles with a few stretches. His left eye was as white as the snow and his right eye was a black with a white iris. Hubert looked around to see his friends jaws open in confusment, all except Kale, who went from staring out to the moon at Syra's disappearing silhouette, to facehooving himself and shaking his head.

"I really don't need this right now" said Hubert to himself.

"Say... why is everybody looking at me so different? Hey what the hell, I just blacked out and now I'm here standing up and...and what's with the funny face guys? It's like you all just saw a ghost."

"Holy s***, Hubert! Ha...hahaha! Oh man what the hell happened to you man! Are you the pretty broad or are you the royal guard, make up your mind!" said Charlie now fully awake and was laughing at Hubert's newly discovered... "inner-demon" I guess you could call it.

Twilight had mixed feelings on the current situation. Rainbow Dash died in front of her but yet her voice was coming from... Hubert? It was some sort of strange magic she thought she will never be able to learn, even if it takes her years until the day she drops.

"This is supposed to be a joke right? Where the hell is Rainbow Dash? I am Rainbow Dash! Why am I in this old and scarred body? Thanks for making me feel a bit better about myself Ace" Hubert finished saying. "This is getting a bit confusing, how about, we stop finishing each other's sentences and we talk once at a time?" the dismembered body of the rainbow mane'd pegasus suggested.

"Done and... done? Ace, are you alive... INSIDE OF ME?"
"Of course I'm alive, you don't actually think that Syra would actually take me down, I mean like, just look at my...did you just say INSIDE OF YOU?" Hubert began to flip around in the air to examine his own body and landed next to Charlie and Victor. "Oh no... I'M A GUY?! WHAT!" Half of Hubert's personality wept while the other half was trying to calm himself. It was like some sick and twisted disease turned into some comedy act.

All of the veterans were standing in front of the door back to go back inside of the house, arguing about how Hubert's two-face system was either a good or bad thing. "Say, who took all the color out? Vic... VIC! I THINK I'M COLOR BLIND!" Charlie rapidly patted his cheeks and looked around to see the new world of black and white, the true colors of what everyone has been feeling for so many years during Syra's reign.

Kale continued squinting more and more until he opened his eyes wide. His pupils disappeared and both eyes went white like Hubert's left eye. His mane lit up back to its electric blue shock, breaking the black and white. He turned around to see what everyone was doing. He looked back towards the moon and back at his friends, he did at least 4 takes on each scene before he yelled. Twilight looked at the moon to see what he was so worked up on... she regretted looking up. Around the moon clouds started forming around a dancing black figure in the distance, whom's wing's blocked the moonlight and casted a shadow upon Twilight and her friends. The clouds shot both thunder and hail at the same time at the mountains where they were flying over.

Everyone looked up in awe at the amazing winter show taking place when a hole ripped through a cloud and out submerged the supposed myth from long ago. An enormous muzzle of a stallion, like a hand of God, pierced through the gaping hole in the sky. Only the muzzle was shown, and the noise of a wailing mystical animal was heard. The clouds began to spin faster and faster around Syra and the sky was getting black and blacker. Kale took a few steps back from the edge of the balcony before he made his actions. "In the name of Celestia...run... EVERYONE INSIDE NOW!" yelled Kale; he then turned back to the epic muzzle coming from the sky,

Charlie and Victor happily rushed towards the door and went inside quickly, not wanting their question of "why?" answered. Hubert and Twilight however remained on the balcony with a confused expression written on their faces. Kale turned back to see only the inverted twins had obeyed him, while the others were still standing there by his side. "Have you two gone mad!? Go inside, NOW!". The two scolded ponies looked at each other and back to their raging friend. "Why on earth would we want to go ba-AHHH!" Twilight was tackled by Kale, who was gripping her tightly on the ground. "TOO LATE!". Hubert opened his wings and covered Twilight the best as he could as well as covering himself.

It was as if sort of seismic charge was set off in the distance. From a small crack in Kale's grip, Twilight could see a bright yet powerfully dark red wave open up in a circular fashion. The sound around them all was muted and there was nothing but pure silence for only mere seconds until finally a "TWANG" like sound erupted, making a powerful blast, sending many debris of wood and snow at the sheltering friends.

Kale got to his hooves on an instant and opened his wings. Majestic like his man, they too were flaming with the same royal blue as his mane, only difference was that his mane was brighter. He walked to the edge of the balcony and took a deep breath before letting out of sigh that spoke "This was bound to happen".

Twilight stood up and Hubert as well, both in a clumsy manner. "What the hell was that?!" Rainbow Dash's voice said. "I wish I could tell you but in my time as a royal guard, I don't even know..." replied Hubert. It was rather amusing to Twilight, to see him talking to himself was a bit humorous. When she looked back at Kale he was slowly keeping a pace of his wing thrusts, preparing to his voyage out to where Syra was. The giant muzzle that cracked the sky was gone but only to be replaced with hunrdeds upon thousands of what seemed to be bats at the distance they were at.

Just as Kale crouched down ready to jump off the edge of the balcony to fly, Twilight grabbed onto his left hoof. Another roar of the invisible wendigo broke the sounds of peace, having everyone have their attention back onto the full moon. "Kale wait, you can't do this alone" Hubert said with enthusiasm. "I'm with the Royal Guard Kale, don't forget that. Don't forget you were basically the leader of us when we were colts" he walked to Hubert side with his semi-controlled body and bowed before Kale. "I'm always ready to serve at your side Ka-" Rainbow Dash interrupted. "I have no choice here, I may be a pegasus but I'm pretty sure she's just using my body as some capsule, I not only need my body back but I just can't fly outta when I get myself back and leave the rest of you here to fight her alone, you're Twilight's... 'friend' I think and I will always be there for her" she finished saying.

Kale grinned and bowed down as well once Hubert stood up straight and gave a 'salute'. Charlie and Victor both came from downstairs, disoriented and wobbling as they came out of the door. The pegasus with the mane of fire chuckled and shook his head. "The element of loyalty at her finest... and Hubert, just like her... i can see why you two have such a bond, you both share your divine loyalty to whoever it is that you care for, but don't lie to me here, you're both only doing this because you two are loyal to each other... love, how sweet" finished Kale while prepping his wings.

"Well what are you two waiting for? Let's fl-"

"Now hold on there a second buddy"

Kale closed his eyes and put his head down whispering to himself "I REALLY don't need this right now". "Yeah, you know what I’m going to say, it's obvious. We're helping toooooo - AHHHHH!" Victor was screaming and pointing his hoof towards the moon...yet again. Three white cloud-looking blobs were coming towards them at the speed of meteors and ironically enough shared the same traits as meteors. They went at such a fast speed they soon turned to nothing but a simple sized snowball that splattered on each of them except for Twilight and the pegasus with two personalities. Everyone looked at each other and shrugged it off as if it was some failure attack of Syra.

"Aaannnyywaaaays... Kale, I don't give a flying feather about your opinion on this, but me and Charlie here decided it's best for us to help you out, we ain't leaving this action to yourselves, we've been terrorized by her as well. The amount of years that we have been terrorized of is too damn high!" Victor finished saying with a nod and grin. Charlie too did the same body language that his brother had done except his nod a bit more nervous. "Wait what, we're gonna go up against a ghost that controls winter apperantly, this isn't some s*** we saw in Du Lang victor!" the golden coated earthpony pleaded.

"Hey hey hey!... shaddup, we've been through worse and besides... we got little twi-twi here with us, I'm not letting anything happen to her, I know you wouldn't want her to be harmed, she has her life good Charlie... we need to help her have it better" retorded his brother.

Kale turned back at them and smiled saying "You two have no wings, what makes you all think you're going to he-" a hoof was shoved in his mouth and he sighed. The red stallion removed his hoof from Kale's mouth and happily said “HOLD THAT THOUGHT Krazy Kale, we got a plan" he then pointed at Hubert and shouted at him saying "Hue! We need Old Reliable to give us a little bit of a lift right here, catch my drift?"

Hubert repeated the name 'Old Reliable' a few times until his eyes widened with surprise and then quickly changed to anger. "You two want OLD RELIABLE!? Oh no no no, that is seriously one of my proudest and most special possession, if you two even lay so much as a scra-"

"Hubert, we got this! Besides, think of Twilight... think of Rainbow Dash, you love her, you need all the help you can get from us" Charlie exclaimed. Kale nodded and told Hubert he agreed with the fact that they do need all the help they can get. He bit his lower lip while he stomped the ground gently thinking hard on the decision. "Are you really struggling with an answer knowing I’m basically controlling a small part of you?" hissed Dash. "Yeah... I’m kind of an idiot okay? Sheesh... alright, go get Old Reliable. I don't want a scratch on her, do you two understand me?"

The inverted stallions both nodded in agreement to ensure they will at the very least try to cause a minimal amount of damage to their ride to the mountains where Syra resides, casting her evils. It was an eventful moment that was mutual to everyone. They see the blackness of their sins printed on them and yet they still have the white on them for their innocence that still existed on them. Each of them bare a different shade of black and white, Hubert still had a small streak of red, so did Victor and Charlie, but that didn't change who they are now.

"Well then, we're off" Charlie ran inside the house and disappeared in the blackness. Victor nodded again at Hubert who replied with a smile, saying one last thing. "If you're thinking about how you'll find us, just remember how I found you all back in La Drang, alright?". Victor saluted Hubert, and took off after Charlie. it was now down to a partially possessed Hubert and a calm spirit of winter who bare the name Kale. "Ready when you are Kale

"Even here at a world's end, I see two ponies united as one by the force we call love, aiding me; a ghost! It's funny but I think it's time this road comes to an end, let's finish this"

"And me?"

The two pegasus look back to see the purple unicorn saddened by the thoughts of her lack in ability to fly. Hubert didn't have anything to say but "We need you here at home Twilight, we can't have you helping us and putting yourself in danger, besides... you don't have any wings, it's like... it's like you were destined to stay here!" he smiled hoping it would make her feel better but instead his words gave her a negative effect.

Kale gave Hue a bad look which his response was a shrug. "Ugh... Twilight, Hubert is right on one part, and that's putting yourself in danger, we don't want that. You need to stay here and be safe until we can defeat her. She can't be saved, not without you, but we can be free, that we can be IF we defeat her... do you understand now Twilight?"

She gave no response; she only looked down onto the ground of snow picking at it, making a circle with her hooves. "Don't feel so bad Twilight! We'll be back faster than you know it, so lighten up egghead!" Rainbow finished her sentence off with a chuckle to show her what she meant was supposed to be taken lightly. Again, no response.

They both shared the same thought that Twilight understood her place in the situation. After a few stretches here and there from Hubert and a deep trance of thought from Kale, they readied they're wings for takeoff, until a bright flash of blue, broke the rule of having a black and white winter. They're jaws dropped and hit the floor at Twilight's new appearance.

Before them stood Twilight with her eyes raging white fumes of smoke, as if the raging winds of the season roared inside of her and in order to see it, you must look through the glass eyes of the mare. Twilight sprouted a more professional looking type of wings that she had casted onto Rarity, the day when Rainbow Dash had a tournament, on herself. The wings were a bit larger than the regular wings of a pegasus but they were certainly more firm and had a more menacing look.

That's a wrap for now. Next chapter (Undecided title at the moment) is going to be the finale which leads to the endings YOU the viewers will choose... let's be honest here, you bastards are gonna look at both endings. I don't blame you all, I'd do the same. NEXT chapter is the most intense one i've ever written.

Now for what I mentioned earlier... Revelations was TOO long. Originally Mad World was part of this and the next chapter I am writing was going to be part of this BUT come on now... that's 8000+ words. Too long. No worries, I literally just took about 1500-2000 words off this story and put it in the next. So i'm already half-way done with the next one! Oh and also... to the guy who sent me a message (You know who you are) asking about my past... let me tell you about it...