Chapter 14: Prove Your Worth!
(Warning: There will be movie spoilers featured in this chapter, if you don’t want to read the section of it, skip ahead to the next one, you have been warned!)
The decrepit chamber was dark, and very empty despite the large statues that decorate the place.
Water flooded a large section of the floor in front of the large statue depicting the head of an aristocratic man, the liquid shining like a light source.
Celestia opened her eyes and shot up into a sitting position, muscles aching and feeling slightly groggy, as if she’d just gotten out of bed to raise the sun.
That’s when she noticed a familiar face lying next to her, red and gold armor barely covering her parts and chest, chain-mail covering her slim but muscular stomach, small armor plating covering her arms and legs, but showing enough skin to leave almost no imagination.
Celestia’s eyes narrowed for a second before widening in recognition at the woman’s face, HER face…
“ Daybreaker?” She muttered, confused on how her opposite split from her and formed another body.
The Alicorn in question snapped her eyes open, her draconic eyes glowing orange in the darkish chamber.
She looked around and saw her ‘lighter’ side staring at her with surprise on her face.
“ What in the name of Equestria happened, Celly?” Daybreaker asked, her voice echoing slightly throughout the large chamber as she looked down at herself, almost admiring her form with interest.
Celestia blinked and took another look around again, trying to remember if she had seen this chamber before, but came up blank.
Then the two Alicorns noticed the redheaded girl lying on the ground in front of the pool of water, a small black book lying next to her limp form.
Celestia and Daybreaker looked at each other, then at the small girl, before taking a step forward…
That’s when they heard a large door being opened behind the two with a large groan…
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Luna could barely see through the dark forest, in step next to her split personality, Nightmare Moon, who is looking around with a vigilance that she could barely remember her having.
It was almost as if she was protecting her from danger…
But that would be silly, wouldn’t it?...
Nightmare’s eyes slightly glowed in the dark as her eyesight adjusted to the pitch black darkness of the large forest that reminded the Mare In The Moon of Everfree, where she battled the Elements Of Harmony when she first returned from her banishment in the moon.
She could see a lake that glistened in the moonlight, almost a picture of serenity and comfort, if not for the fact of a man that looked familiar to her and Luna lying on the ground in shredded prisoner’s garb.
Nightmare and Luna almost ran to the unconscious man and looked him over, recognizing the man immediately as Sirius Black, also known as Discord.
Nightmare spoke, interrupting the silence, “ Discord. I swear to Faust that if this is one of your tricks, I’ll…”
They suddenly heard fast steps and light panting from behind them and Nightmare whirled around, ready to take on whoever thought they can sneak up on her and her counterpart…
That’s when her eyes landed on the skinny, yet VERY recognizable form of Harry Potter, her new coltfriend.
Well, not a coltfriend YET...
She and Harry needed to talk about said relationship whenever they got the chance... To see where it was going...
He looked younger, even in his deep emerald eyes, and they were full of fear and faded anger that made Nightmare shiver with goose-flesh.
She never felt THAT before, and her cheeks lit up pink at the familiar feeling of lust…
Luna, even though she couldn’t see it, smirked in amusement at the predicament her darker counterpart was in…
He moved past Nightmare, almost as if he didn’t even see her and Luna and slid to his knees next to Sirius and tried to get the older man to wake up.
That’s when they noticed the temperature dropping and spot the lake bein to become frozen in ice, moving towards them as if alive.
Then they looked up, including Harry, and their eyes widened at the sight…
Hundreds of floating dark forms permeated the air in front of the group and skeletal hands reaching out towards Harry, who got to his feet, gripping his Holly and Phoenix feather wand.
Nightmare and Luna noticed that he seemed to be weakening even more in the presence of these creatures, wincing in pain once in awhile, causing the two Alicorns to look at each other and back at the young man in concern.
The large group of Dementors, Nightmare thinks he called them once, flew towards Sirius and Harry with the feel of hunger that made even Luna wince in slight fear at not seeing their faces, only gaping mouths under the hoods.
That’s when they noticed the glowing form of a stag walking towards the group of Dementors on the other side of the lake...
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Chrysalis woke up suddenly in rubble, moaning in pain and grogginess, trying to see where she was…
That’s when the queen noticed the familiar forms of Teddy and Queen Amethyst lying next to her, Teddy spooning her with his arms wrapped around the middle and her head carefully snuggling into the crook of his neck, her sharp horn narrowly missing his skull.
That’s when Chrysalis noticed something and concern along with motherly instinct shot her up with adrenaline at her senses of danger nearby.
They DEFINITELY need to get out of there…
She got to her feet and immediately tried to wake the young boy and chibi Changeling queen.
“ Teddy. Teddy! Amethyst! Wake up! We’re not safe here!” She hissed, slightly annoyed that her attempts to rouse them from the land of dreams were unsuccessful…
She then noticed something in the air, and her nostrils flared the smell of strong Hate mixed in along with Love.
Coming from the other side of where she and the two children were in, wherever they were at the moment…
She tried to wake the two up with no success and gave up to see what was making her senses crazy…
It wasn’t even that far…
She peeked her head up, then immediately ducked at a green light coming her way, hitting the rubble with fierce power that it broke a few chunks of stone and dirt.
Then after a few seconds of waiting, Chrysalis lifted her head over the mound again, ready to duck down again…
But it wasn’t needed…
Because the one who cast the spell was busy fending off another…
Chrysalis’s eyes widened at the familiar sight of the man who looked young, but smelled older than that, his round glasses slightly cracked and dirty, his clothing ripped in places along with a couple of deep cuts and bruises that made the Changeling queen wince in sympathy.
It was Harry Potter!
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The seventeen year old man was holding his Holly and Phoenix feather wand in front of his face, arms shaking as he was in a power struggle with the one known as Tom Marvolo Riddle, A.K.A Lord Voldemort.
The Pale figure in billowing black robes gritted his teeth as the Elder Wand belted out the Killing Curse at full power, he could feel that the wand’s loyalty belonged to him...
But he felt that it was not exactly loyal to HIM…
The wand chooses the wizard, and this wand chose Harry James Potter, The Boy Who Lived, Master Of Death...
When he felt his last Horcrux get destroyed, Voldemort stumbled, and the spells canceled out.
Chrysalis watched with awe as Harry’s eyes seemed to glow an even more deep emerald, and she felt his power spread out through the entire area.
Harry glared at the panting form of Voldemort, happy that his scar isn’t hurting in the man’s, no, not a man, the MONSTER’S presence anymore, thanks to the Horcrux in his scar being destroyed…
Voldemort’s scarlet eyes locked onto him, and Harry noticed the familiar sight of fear in those orbs of insanity and megalomania…
Then he raised the Elder Wand, aiming in his direction, and Harry tensed, ready for another fight…
The power struggle began once more, the beams of red and green fought against each other, but Harry was winning, when the orb of magic streamlined back at Voldemort, mixing the Expelliarmus and Avada Kedavra together in a big orb of fatal and deadly magic.
Chrysalis watched as he sent a disarming charm at the pale snake-like man and the familiar sight of the Elder Wand was sent out of Voldemort’s hand and flew into Harry’s.
Then everything faded to black...
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Back in the Chamber of Secrets, Celestia and Daybreaker watched in horror as the twelve year old form of Harry Potter run around the Chamber, dodging the sixty foot Basilisk as it tried to bite him after a Phoenix clawed and pecked its eyes out.
After a few close calls, Harry ended up on the large statue head with a silver gleaming sword, aimed at the roof of the Basilisk’s mouth…
Celestia and Daybreaker felt immediate concern at the expression of severe pain on Harry’s face as he stabbed the large snake’s brain with the sword.
The giant snake writhed in a death throe, screeching in agony that made the two Alicorns almost want to clamp their hands over their ears.
Harry sluggishly made his way down to the floor by climbing the statue head of Salazar Slytherin and fell to the ground next to the red-headed girl, who was even more pale than a few minutes ago.
The two noticed an older boy speaking to Harry, and felt the aura of said boy…
It was pure darkness, familiar to Sombra…
Then Harry seemed to get an idea after the boy said, “ Funny what a silly little book can do.”
He opened the book and gripped the broken Basilisk fang from his arm, gritting his teeth in agony as Harry raised the fang in a dagger like fashion, ready to stab it…
“ What are you doing?” Then Tom Riddle’s eyes widened at what his nemesis was gonna do,
“STOP, NO!” He yelled as he shot forward to try and stop the boy from stabbing his diary.…
Then the fang came down and stabbed into the book, black ink with the density of blood squirted from the pages, and a glowing crack formed in Tom’s torso, an expression of pain on the older boy’s face almost mirroring that of Harry’s.
Harry saw what he needed to do, and stabbed the diary a couple times, before closing the book and stabbing the ink stained fang deep into the cover, making more cracks along Tom’s body as he did so, crying out in pain.
Then the memory of Voldemort blew apart in a flash of light, disappearing into oblivion…
That’s when Celestia and Daybreaker’s vision went dark…
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Nightmare Moon and Luna watched as the glowing stag sent out a bright pulse in the form of a half bubble, spreading out over the lake and the Dementors were pushed away with shrieks of pain, almost like the time when the Changelings tried to invade Canterlot during Cadance and Shining Armor’s wedding.
Then the stag’s form faded, and the light that it was producing dimmed to nothing…
It took a bit to readjust to the sudden darkness, and when they did, the two Alicorns were shocked and confused to say the least.
Luna and Nightmare noticed the familiar form of the boy now lying on the ground behind them.
A slightly older Harry Potter stared at his few hours younger self from across the lake, panting at the amount of magic he used to conjure his Patronus.
Then everything went dark for Nightmare Moon and Luna…
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The Dursley household if #4 Privet Drive was empty, quiet of its occupants.
Eleven year old Harry Potter sat in his cupboard, thinking of the decision he made when he accepted Princess Celestia’s offer of joining her family…
It doesn’t make sense, she doesn’t even know me! He thought as he listened to the quiet skittering of the spiders that occupied his cupboard.
Then… Why did I accept? Is that small miniscule part of me still living in hope for a loving family, no matter the age? Harry contemplated, leaning back against the cupboard wall.
His musings were interrupted by a loud BANG, and the sound of seven bodies hit the carpeted floor of the Dursley’s living room.
He listened closely as voices of familiar people filled the silent house.
" Tia? Daybreaker?! What in the name of…” said one.
" Chrysalis, Nightmare where art we?” Said another.
" I got no idea. But it seems Harry has made a mental construct of a house. But… where is he?” Said a very familiar voice that made Harry’s heart pound with longing.
He fought the urge to come barreling out of the small cupboard and into her arms, but refrained himself.
I think I know who they are now… He thought as he kept quiet, wanting the Ponies to figure things out.
He heard the telltale sound of metal hooves moving across the wooden floor of the front entrance hallway, just outside the small door.
He heard Luna call out to the others,
“Tia, come hither!” She shouted.
The sound of feet congregated behind the door of Harry’s cupboard, and he straightened his back as much as possible, his teeth gritting at the event that was to come…
He heard Luna whisper,
" Tia… There are locks on the door… Do thou think…?” She asked, a dawning realization of horror in her voice, made Harry want to grimace.
" I… I guess we’re about to find out Lulu…” said Celestia, her motherly voice replaced with trepidation that he didn’t want to hear again.
Harry heard the clicks of the locks unlatching and took a deep breath, preparing…
The door opened and the fear of Uncle Vernon grabbing him by his hair and throwing him out for a beating came back tenfold, causing him to hyperventilate.
" There’s somepony in there!” Said Amethyst.
“Quick, open the door!” Said Chrysalis, who had a tinge of concern in her voice.
The door swing wide open and light filled the small space…
Harry shut his eyes, trying to calm his small beating heart when he heard a gasp of horror from the Ponies in front of him.
Here we go… He thought as he heard Celestia’s voice call out to him softly...
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“Ha--Harry?” Said Celestia, watched the small figure hunched into a ball against the back of the Cupboard Under The Stairs, look up at her in tired resignation.
His emerald green eyes may be younger by a decade, but they still had the same aura of power and Death swirling inside.
Celestia felt a tear slide down her cheek at the sight of an eleven year old Harry Potter wearing clothes that were 3 sizes too big with broken taped up glasses with the same design as his current ones, and the small mattress he was sitting on…
Her slight shock became a blaze of rage…
Nightmare, Luna and Chrysalis began backing up as the temperature in the area began to rise to 200 degrees.
Celestia’s eyes flashed white and a small snarl on her lips, opened her mouth to yell…
But her eyes landed on Harry, who flinched involuntarily, his years of being raised by the caring Dursley’s programming kicking in as he saw the anger pouring off the Solar Diarch.
Celestia’s eyes returned to their gentle magenta, wet with unshed tears as lowered herself down to Harry’s level, squatting at the doorway.
Harry watched with suspicious and frightened eyes at her that made her heart sting, feeling that she may have caused him to be fearful of her.
Then a knock came at the door of the house, catching the attention of Celestia and the others….
Through the small glass window of the door, there was a silhouette of a man outside, who kept knocking 3 times per 6 second intervals.
Luna walked over to the door as quietly as she possibly could when Celestia tilted her head in its direction with a mental conversation, until the door opened and standing there...
...Was another Harry Potter, though this one looked like he had been through war...