//------------------------------// // Cessation // Story: Autumn // by canonkiller //------------------------------// ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o45SCnPXmY - a good soundtrack~ Obsidian flinched as his father appeared in front of him, before stumbling on some object and faceplanting in front of the seven most powerful beings in the world. Obsidian facepalmed. Discord peeled his face out of the dirt. "Oh, good. You're here." He turned, waving to the Firstborn - who surprisingly, all looked mutual, except for Faenum, who rolled her eyes and glared at her sister - and smiled. "Hi there!" "Daaaad come on." Obsidian hoisted him back onto his feet. "I'm having a dramatic moment here!" "Oh, so that's what this is all about. Sorry." His eyes widened. "Oh yes, I almost forgot. Look what I found~" "I swear, if it's another Poison Joke, I'll stab you." "No! Better!" From seemingly out of nowhere, he pulled out the six elements. "Ha!" "How are you even holding those?" Discord shrugged, even rubbing one of the necklaces over his arm for good measure. "I don't know. I'm just special, I guess." "Hey! How did you even get those?" Sunrise interrupted. Turning to the seven creators, she smiled sheepishly. "One second." "I have been waiting for a while for that stupid door to open, I'll have you know. I knew where those were simply because... ah, well... to put it simply, Celestia was not the only one with a set of Elements... no, not me, but Luna... oh never mind. You get the picture." "Sunrise, would you mind getting the others? You know, the Elements? Obviously he has to have some reason why he found them." "Yes, my lord, I am your humble servant. Let me be joyful in doing your bidding." She growled, walking away with her tail flicking angrily. Obsidian jumped as his dad suddenly appeared beside him. "She's pissed." "Go away." "Spoilsport." Discord laughed, hovering a few feet off the ground and turning a nearby tree into a frying pan. "I've been doing this for you." "Me?" "Who brought the Elements together? Who kept space-time from ripping apart? Who is now the Seventh and-even-more-mysterious-and-powerful-than-Magic Element? You~" "Look, you've got something seriously wrong if you think I'm the seventh Element. There. Are. SIX." "Guys! Break it up!" Sunrise interrupted again, pushing the two apart. "The slave has returned, with friends." The second Discord had stepped away from Obsidian, he was tackled from behind. "You didn't call me! Two thousand years and you've never called!" "Mom, please. I'm an adult now. Please get off?" Fulmen snorted and remained hunched over his back. "Not until you tell me you love me." "Hey! That is not fair." "Have we met? I'm the mother of the spirit of chaos and disharmony? Hello~?" Discord levitated the Elements in front of him, catching the dimming light in the gemstones and reflecting a small dot of white light on the ground beside him. The effect was instantaneous. Fulmen's pupils widened to almost her entire eye's worth, and she started purring, jumping off of Discord's back and playfully batting at the dot. Disocrd shot towards his son, holding his mouth closed. "Speak of this to anyone and I will turn you to stone. Understand?" "But it's hilarious!" "Understand?" "Yes...wait, no." "Can we please please please get back on track here? I'm getting old waiting." Faenum snapped. "We're almost done!" Sunrise growled. "If you haven't noticed, we can't catch Tigerjay." The Griffon was backing up a tree, speeding up whenever someone got close. "No! I'm not wearing jewellery! No no no no!" "We are trying to do something important! Get down here and put on the stupid necklace!" "No!" "TIGERJAY!!" No... I must be free... this world... I need to be something other than nothing... this is my chance... The Elements lined up in front of the Firstborn, and nopony there wasn't wondering what was going to happen. Somehow they moved into a battle position. Sunrise, covered in the air by Laughter and Loyalty, flanked by Honesty and Kindness, and followed closely by Generosity. The second Squishy's last hoof fell into place, a massive magick turbulence kicked up, spinning in a wide circle and bending over all the trees in the area. The other ponies, prevouisly out of sight, were now filled with fear. And from that fear... something breathed. Obsidian's head suddenly filled with a roaring, unbelieveable pressure. He doubled over, claws digging up the ground, breathing only barely. Discord had hovered over, was tryign to help... and remembered the last nacklace. As his son began to truly suffocate, he slammed the final necklace on his back. The turbulence increased tenfold. The entire Everfree was in danger of destruction. A blinding light erupted from the six Elements, and each one floated into the air as their inner power was channeled. Obsidian found his lungs, the pain in his head stronger with eveyr passing second. And when he forced his eyes open, and turned back to face the Elements, there was a rainbow split into parts flying towards him. His father had told him being turned to stone was unbearable. But now... he knew he couldn't escape. It was him. He was the bad thing. He should have known that Kha would kill him. The Elements had weakened him, and the Firstborn's will to destroy Kha once again had surfaced. And this normally hopeful and brilliant spectrum was here to finish what he had started. So when he closed his eyes, braced himself for pain, and nothing came, he opened his eyes again. And there was something standing in front of him. It was standing on four legs, that seemed to end in hooves like that of the ponies, even if they were smaller and delicate-looking. It would almost look like a deer, other than the fact that it had no markings on it's perfectly oblong skull other than two almond-shaped black eyes. It's tail was not small and fluffy either, but a dangerous-looking whip tipped with a triangluar flap of skin. And instead of being injured by the Elements, the light seemed to be bending around it, wrapping around it's body and splitting into shards of glass. These shards - amid the constant turbulance and rainbow wreath - rearanged on it's shoulders to form a set of blilliant, sprkling wings. As the peices fell into place, markings lit up along the creatures' sides, and although they shouldn't have been very bright against the pure white skin, but they were. And then the Elements stopped. Their Bearers fell to the ground, and the creature moved. Thank you, Obsidian. The creature dipped it's head and turned towards the Firstborn. It is time. With that, the turbulence kicked up again. Kha reared up, letting loose a piercing wail before charging forwards. His wings snapped open. Nobody moved. Nobody could. And when Kha connected with the Creators, his wings broke into thousands of tiny little glittering peices, digging into their skin. And then they all vanished. There was silence. None of the Elements moved, other than Obsidian, who was still trembling in pain. "What happens now? Did... we win?" "Ah don't know..." KH-THMMMMMMM "What was that?" KH-THMMMMMMM The sky exploded. Where it had once been turning to night, there was color. The enitre sky swirled and crumbled. I can't stay... trapped... KH-THMMMMMMM "Well... I think I know what we're doing next." Obsidian muttered.