//------------------------------// // Family ties // Story: Eternal Solace // by D Styles //------------------------------// A/N: Well, isn't this bloody wonderful? An update~! I know I haven't touched my fics in how long, but I have justified reasons that I will not state. Anywho, I plan to finish this by December 15. Why that date? Well, I don't believe it, but if the world DOES end by December 21, at least you'll know how this story goes. I also want to make progress before season three comes out, because from what I know, they might introduce Celestia and Luna's REAL parents, and Solace doesn't like that, not one bit. Now, I thought about this chapter for a while, as well as the rest of the story, and geeze. You're in for something big. Also, one last note, I realized at times, I have a REALLY short attention span. Anyway, enough of me, have some fanfiction. Midway note: Damn, I'm sloppy. Solace sighed softly, and cursed his luck for being spotted when he had just formulated a plan. He looked the Alicorn Ruler over carefully, he had already gathered up that she was the ruler of Equestria from her demeanour, general appearance, not to mention her mane, the fact that she was much larger from other ponies, and that she was an alicorn. Solace smirked to himself, who where these ponies? Thinking that they had a chance against him? "Little old me. . .?" Solace widened his eyes and gave an innocent look to the alicorn and the six mares along side her. "Why, I'm just passing through, what would make me different from the other ponies passing by?" For a king, Solace could be a real wise-ass if he wanted, and being dumped into a different time period didn't exactly help either. The white alicorn's eyes where narrowed into slits, although her cold stare didn't seem to be a bother to Solace at all. "I haven't seen you around before. Where did you come from?" "Where have I come from...?" Solace seemed to look out into space, as if pondering his thoughts, then he formulated the most direct answer possible. "That's none of your business." He responded with a smile. The ponies watching where surprised by the attitude he was showing their ruler, but then what the other alicorn, with a white coat to match their Princess', yet with a mane smiler to a liquid sun, had said next shocked all of the bystanders and the mares that were with her were also confused when he had asked her "Just who do you think you are, interrogating me like this?" The Princess made her response had short and efficient as possible. "I am Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria. I demand that you raise your hooves and surrender to the Equestrian Government." Solace felt a chill go down his spine, not at the fact that the ruler of Equestria was right there, but the fact that it was his daughter, Celestia, was right there, threatening to bring him in. If he was worried about anything, he never showed it. "Ha, you expect me to comply with your demands, just because you're the ruler of Equestria?" The ponies around them where shocked at the disrespect he was showing, and he was too occupied with the ponies in front of him to notice the amount of Royal Guards stacking up behind him. "You just disrespected the ruler of Equestria. Who do you think you are?" It was obvious that this mysterious Alicorn was getting on her nerves, the small lavender coated mare next to her moved away feeling the heat that was radiating off of her by purely anger. "Me?" Solace laughed loudly. "I can't believe you forgot me." He made himself intimidating, by fully spreading out his wings and flaring his horn, causing the streets of Canterlot to light up. "I, am Solace. KING. SOLACE." He had spoken the last two words so loudly, that even the Royal Canterlot voice of their Lunar Princess seemed like a whisper to him. Many ponies flattened their ears in a futile attempt to save their hearing. He cut the light from his horn, and stood their, facing Celestia. "We never had a King." Was all that Celestia said, until it clicked in her head as 2+2=5. "You're going to overthrow me! Guards! Seize him!" She yelled, as by instinct Solace turned around to see 14 guards that where all heading towards him. "Halt!" Solace yelled at them, but to no avail. "Bah, you dare disobey your king? I will not tolerate that incompetence!" The first guard was a bulky earth pony who attempted to charge at Solace, the latter stuck out a hoof and grabbed him, before slamming him into a near by store. "Pitiful." Not wanting to waste any time, he powered through the rest of the guards in a similar fashion, dealing with unicorns via magic. Celestia was speechless, this. . . Solace was powerful. "Twilight, I need you to use the Elements of Harmony!" Celestia instructed her student. Twilight, the lavender unicorn, nodded and looked back at her friends. "Alright girls, we're going to need to use the elements on this guy!" She told her friends, who all nodded. Solace dusted off his coat, what has the Equestrian Royal Guard been reduced to? He turned back to Celestia, only to find a bright light to obstruct his view, he raised a wing in order to block the light that was shining onto him, and with a quick flash, the light faded away. Solace carefully lowered his wing, and glanced at the Princess, who seemed unchanged. The six mares however, had each acquired a new accessory. Five of them have gotten a necklace from thin air, and upon closer inspection, each necklace had a jewel that resembled the wearer's cutie mark. A certain lavender mare however, had a crown compared to her friends. "Alicorn! I will give you this one last chance to turn yourself in, or else we will use the Elements of Harmony!" Celestia called out to Solace. Solace thought about it for a second. 'Elements of Harmony, huh? Well, looks like these are my little fillies, finishing something I couldn't grasp myself. Wonder how they were able to get the Elements to work?' he said silently to himself, until another yell from Celestia snapped him back to reality, where he realized she still wanted an answer. "Nope." was all he said, before Celestia glared at him coldly, before nodding to the Element Bearers. The one with the crown levitated, her eyes shut, all of the other Elements followed suit, before the bearer of what he recognized to be Magic opened her eyes, showing a bright, all-consuming white, then suddenly, colored lights shot up into the night sky, and combined before coming down onto Solace. Celestia watched him carefully, he didn't attempt to escape it, and she was sure her eyes where playing tricks on him when she thought she seen a sly grin creep onto his face before he was blasted with the forces of Harmony. Twilight and her friends landed back onto ground gently, and them, including Celestia, all looked to the cloud of dust where the male Alicorn stood, and when the dust had cleared, they all gasped in shock of what they seen. Solace, standing there completely unharmed, only the same grin still plastered on his face. "But how did he--" One of the Element Bearers tried to ask, but Solace cut them off and answered her question. "Simple, they are the Elements of Harmony. They purge all that has to do with disharmony, in other words, they work against evil things. I, myself, am anything but evil." Solace calmly explained. Celestia stood there, still in shock at how the alicorn survived the Elements flawlessly. She couldn't take it anymore, she charged up a wad of magical power in her horn, and aimed straight at the stallion's heart. Without a word, she let the blot loose, and it flew right into Solace's chest. Upon contact with his chest, the pain that surged through his body was one he rarely felt, as if his internal organs where turning into acid, and that acid attempted to dissolve through his skin, he absorbed the entire shot, and he shut his eyes, clenched them tight from the pain, but kept his appearance in check, once he opened his eyes, his vision was blurred, his legs were buckling slightly, but he couldn't let them see this weakness, so he thought of an escape. Celestia was in shock, he absorbed the entire hit, and he was still standing, he didn't even look like he felt it at all, and to top it off, to her horror, he began to laugh. He laughed loudly, it hurt him dramatically due to the possible fact that his lungs feel like they have a spearhead within them, but it was worth it to get the effect he intended. He looked back at Celestia, to see horror and shock in her face, since it seemingly looks like he was invulnerable to everything. "Now. . . I'd love to stay and chat.." Solace began to say slowly, thinking of a direction he could escape to, before Celestia caught on. "But I don't like playing with foals like you." Celestia then realized what he was going to do, but before she could tell her guards to capture him, he teleported away. "Who was that guy..?" Asked a speechless cyan coated pegasus. ------ A bright light flashed out of nowhere for a split second, before a certain alicorn appeared from thin air. He teleported to a high mountain somewhere, and out in the distance, he could see a small town. That would be his next destination, but after a single step to the village's direction, he collapsed and fell unconscious from the sheer magnitude of pain he felt from Celestia's attack. Moar A/N: Well, I think I messed up, switching between the views of Solace and Celestia a lot. I'll fix this later, but I'll be sure not to make that mistake and stick from Solace's Point of View for the other chapters. Thanks for staying with the fic. ^^