It took a very long time before he could eventually find some place to hide and bury the gems, but when he did he was very glad and filled with joy and delight, this was the best place, far away from both the tree and other ponies, and deep beneath the cold icy frozen water no pony would ever find it.
And the ice ponies who did live up here would not be affected by it either.
You think that just by casting us into the ice and water that we will not be found or recovered one day?
Granted it may take a very long time, but we have lots of patience. Besides, we know that you want to keep us to study and examine.
“Yes, I do,” he said, “But do you want to know what the great thing about magic is? I can actually use it to teleport you to me and then back to the ice once more again, but I can’t do that unless there’s an anchor, and that’s why I literally put an anchor in the ice, so I can concentrate and focus my magic on you no matter how far away I am or go, I hope that you like and enjoy your cold icy frozen stay, heck, who am I kidding? I actually don’t wish you that.”
Careful for what you wish for, it just might come true.
And with that final last piece and word from it he tossed all of them into the water and then teleported them back to him once more again.
And then he placed a spell on all of them so that they could never again ever speak to any pony, but he could not place a spell that would stop or even delay the power and corruption and influence of all these gems he had now.
And then after that he went on his way and even passed through the Crystal Empire and saw that it was very happy and joyous, but when he looked upon its future and what it held, and who would come, he was very afraid.
“This King Sombra is a very powerful pony,” he said after he left and it faded into the distance and out of his sight, but not out of his mind.
“But only because he used the forbidden arts of dark magic, I only wish that I could change the future, but I know that I can’t for the greater good of these lands, come on Felicia, we still have a very long way to go yet.”
And with that said they went on their way to the East.