Darkness was walking angrily into the hall of his castle where Grindelwald, the black coated pony, Cold Wind, Mr and Mrs Warlock were waiting for him. After hearing they’ve failed the mission to stop the groups from reaching the Tree of Life and capturing Lightning Twister, he was not at happy.
Grindelwald, the black coated pony, Cold Wind, Mr and Mrs Warlock were all waiting in the hall of the castle nervously waiting for Darkness to arrive. Well, Grindelwald isn’t nervously really. But anyway, the hallway was in the colour dark with smashed windows and torn up curtains, broken ceiling lights and two big dark hallway doors with grey handles.
The hall doors swung open loudly making the five turn to them and saw Darkness walking angrily towards Mr Warlock with a knife in his hand as he grabbed him by the shoulder, pinned him to the wall and hold the knife to his neck while angrily saying, “You were warned what failure would bring!”
Mr Warlock shock nervously as he stared at the knife that was near his neck before looking at Darkness. “S-So w-why are we holding a k-knife at me? I-It wasn’t just me!”
“The poor boy has had a hard life and I wish not to treat him badly like how he was treated before,” answered Darkness, “And I also wish not to get on Grindelwald’s side since I know what happens if someone has a go at him. But still, you had one job to do! One job! And this is what I get?! Defeated and no colt captured?!”
“Look, look, I can explain! We can explain!” Mr Warlock said in fear while still shaking.
“Silence!” He shouted making Mr Warlock yelp in fear and shake even more, “I’m going to give you three one more chance. Fail me again, and there will be consequences. Understand?”
Mr Warlock gulped nervously before nodding his head in understood as Mrs Warlock and Cold Wind nodded as well.
“Good. Now let’s keep it that way.” Darkness pulled the knife from Mr Warlock’s knife and moved away from him. Mr Warlock breathed heavily after that scary moment. The knife in Darkness’s hand disappeared in darkness smoke. Darkness placed his hands behind his back, turned towards the opened doors and walked away while saying, “Come, my boy. I would like to speak to you in private.”
The black coat pony did what he said and followed him out of the hall. Darkness snapped his fingers and made the doors close by themselves leaving just Grindelwald, Cold Wind and the Warlocks in the hall.
Mrs Warlock rushed to her husband’s aid and worriedly asked, “Honey, are you okay?”
Mr Warlock continued to breath heavily as Mrs Warlock rubbed his back to try and calm him down. Cold Wind let out an “Ugh” in an annoyed tone while staring at The Warlocks before looking at Grindelwald who just remained calm and didn’t even flinch or move a muscle.
“How come you weren’t scared of his anger?” Cold Wind asked.
Grindelwald looked at Cold Wind.
“I fear nothing from his anger or what he can do,” he answered, “I only fear Dumbledore. The only wizard that can truly stop me from killing all Muggles. You have the same fear too, but from a mother.”
Cold Wind knew who he meant by mother. He was talking about Fluttershy since she pretty much stopped him from taking Lightning Twister away and her mother rage is what he’s scared of the most.
“She believes every word Lightning Twister had said about me,” said Cold Wind, “Her stare and anger haunts me every night during my life in prison. That little freak deserves every punishment after ruining my life, and that so-called mother of his won’t save him this time.”
Grindelwald continued to look at Cold Wind before turning to one of the windows and said, “So your life was ruined by a child who wanted to be loved, and to have a real family. Reminds me Credence.”
Grindelwald walked towards the window he was looking at as Cold Wind stared at him confusedly. “Credence?”
“He was a child that has developed a dark parasitic force which we all call an Obscurus, and it made him an Obscurial,” explained Grindelwald while looking at the window, “He was the perfect weapon to kill Dumbledore so he wouldn’t try and stop me, even with our blood pact shielded in a vial that keeps us from duelling each other. He wanted to know who he was and wanted to be with his real family. I gave him what he wanted, even restored his name. Aurelius Dumbledore. And the thanks I get from him was telling all wizards and witches that I tricked them into making me leader with a fake Qilin.”
“What do you attend to do with him now?” Cold Wind asked as he approached the window Grindelwald was staring at.
“After betraying me and joining his real family, I have no other choice but to kill him,” said Grindelwald, “And I might as well kill Dumbledore myself now that the vial is broken.” Grindelwald looked at the Pegasus, “We both have the same fear and the same kind of enemy. Perhaps you’d like to work together. You help me kill Dumbledore, and I’ll help you ruin your son’s life like he did to yours.”
Cold Wind wasn’t sure if he would like Grindelwald’s help. But if it means ruining Lightning Twister’s life after being put in prison for life, he would do anything to ruin his life. So you could say, he’s going to accept his help.
“Come, we’ll talk more in my room,” said Grindelwald as he used the Elder Wand to open the hall doors. Grindelwald and Cold Wind walked out of the hall and headed towards the dark wizard’s room.
Mr and Mrs Warlock watched them leave the hall before looking at each other.
“Do you think he plans to kill Darkness and take his place along with helping Cold Wind ruin his son’s life?” Asked Mrs Warlock.
“If he wanted to do that, he would have done it already since he’s the most dangerous and powerful wizard from what I heard,” answered Mr Warlock, “But he still wants to help Darkness get what he wants if he does want to kill all “Muggles” in his world.”
Mrs Warlock just gave her husband a nod as they both stared at the opened doorway and watched Grindelwald and Cold Wind disappear into the hallway.
By the time Luna raised the moon, the tent was already set up ready for tonight’s rest. The Equestria group and the guardians were amazed and shocked when they saw the inside of the tent. It was bigger on the inside while the outside of the tent was normal, and had enough room for all of them to sleep in for the night.
They were all inside the tent, along with the new visitors, telling stories from how the magic of friendship started to how Dumbledore’s Army began fighting Grindelwald and how Stephen Strange became a sorcerer.
“So you’re actually a changeling and not a bug?” Jacob asked Ocellus trying to not offend her again.
“Yep,” the kind changeling answered.
“And you can turn yourself into anyone and anything?”
“Yeah, watch.” Ocellus transformed into Jacob.
Jacob jumped in surprised after that transform and said, “Woah!” He then stared at Ocellus, in Jacob form, as he moved around a bit with Ocellus copying his every move. “Well, fancy that. It’s like looking in a mirror.”
“That’s what I said,” said Sora remembering the first time he met Ocellus.
Ocellus turned back to her normal form before looking at Newt and asked, “So do you have a lot of creatures in your suitcase?”
“Yes,” said Newt while smiling, “And I’ve taking care of them for a long time now. Some can be a pain, but some can be quite helpful. I never leave them behind.”
“Just like how we never leave each other behind, including the little cutie!” Silverstream said happily while hugging Smolder and Lightning and making sure she isn’t hurting Lightning’s broken wings. The two smiled at the hippogriff.
“And this one here stays on my coat for most of my journeys,” said Newt while showing them the Bowtruckle, “His name’s Pickett. He’s a Bowtruckle.” Pickett waved at everyone.
“How beautiful,” said Fluttershy staring at Pickett while also thinking about the other creatures Newt takes care of, “I would love to meet some of the creatures you take care of, Newt.”
“Well, once things have settled and we’re not dealing with bad problems afterwards, I’m sure I’ll let you have a look at the creatures I look after,” said Newt.
“And you’re a Sorcerer, correct?” Sunset asked.
“Yes,” replied Strange, “I was once a Neurosurgeon before I broke my hands during a car crash when I was on my way to a date. I lost the one I love when the pain in my hands was making me furious. When I met a Sorcerer Supreme called The Ancient One, she trained me to become a Sorcerer. She died after fighting a dark sorcerer named Kaecilius who was helping Dormammu. I time looped him so he can kill me several times until he gave up and left Earth alone before asking me to break the endless loop, and it worked. For this day forward, I became a Sorcerer and a protector of Earth.”
“Ouch. That must have been very painful,” said Pinkie Pie while thinking how much pain Strange felt from his broken hands.
“Oh believe me, it was very painful.”
“Yikes,” said Pinkie Pie, “Oh well, at least you defeated the evil Sorcerer and his master, fixed your hands and saved your world from a big threat! Wait, what about your girlfriend? Did you ever go back to her?”
“Not really,” Strange answered politely, “She’s got a new husband now. And as long she’s happy, I’m happy for her.”
“Well, as long as you’re happy with that, then all I can say is you’re doing the right thing,” said Twilight while smiling.
“You know,” began Discord, “The mistake Doctor Strange made reminds me of a mistake that happened in Equestria.”
The mane eight, Spike, Capper and Sunburst glared at Discord.
“If you’re talking about our poor little fella Lightning Twister, you’ve got another thing coming,” said Applejack crossly with Rainbow cracking her knuckles.
“I wasn’t talking about Lightning Twister this time,” he replied, “I was talking about the mistake Twilight did long ago.”
Pinkie gasped, she knew what Discord meant by that. She then glared at him again while saying, “Don’t you dare bring that up!”
“What mistake?” Celestia asked confusedly.
“I’m telling you this RIGHT now, Discord! Don’t get Twilight into trouble! What she did is now in the past, and we wish to move on from it!” Rainbow said angrily.
“Are we seriously doing this again?” Rarity asked, “Couldn’t we just accept that it was Twilight who decided to steal Queen Novo’s pearl and use us to distract her?”
The four girls stared shockingly at the white unicorn after hearing her say that which made the two sisters and everyone else, including the young seven and Flurry Heart, go into shock mode too.
“Steal Queen Novo’s pearl?” Luna said shocking.
Rainbow Dash stared angrily at Rarity for letting out the mistake they swore not to tell Celestia or anyone else about it so they wouldn’t get Twilight into big trouble.
“Thank you so much for not spilling the beans, Rarity,” she said angrily through clenched teeth.
“Yeah, thanks a bunch!” Said Pinkie angrily through clenched teeth.
“Twilight, did you really try to steal Queen Novo’s pearl?” Celestia asked.
Twilight started to feel worried. She didn’t know what to say or do. If she told Celestia she did try to steal the pearl, she would be very angry at her. If she didn’t tell her, she would be a liar for life or Celestia would keep asking her to make sure she wasn’t lying to her.
“Look, Celestia, I-I can explain!”
But before she could continue or even explain, Pinkie quickly interrupted. “It’s not what you think, Princess! It was Twilight’s fault, it was ours!”
“Your fault?” Celestia asked even more confusedly but still in shock.
“Yes!” Pinkie replied before realising something, “But not Spike’s! I’m leaving him out of this! We wanted to save Equestria and you the same way Twilight does, but we were so caught up with helping new friends that we’ve forgotten to help Twilight see that we can help others as well as save Equestria which made her lose our trust! We’ve been listening to Capper before realising he was trying to sell us…” Pinkie quickly turned to Capper, “No offence,” and then turned back to Celestia while continuing, “And made a Sonic Rainboom to help Tempest Shadow know where we were going which helped her capture Twilight after she used us distract Queen Novo and the Seaponies so she can steal the pearl when she said no and before she can finally say yes! Don’t be mad at Twilight for that mistake, be mad at us! It was our fault, not hers! We’re responsible!”
“Are you seriously still thinking it was our fault she did it, Pinkie?” Rarity asked in annoyed tone causing the pink Earth pony to stare crossly at her.
“Oh don’t start going on again, Rarity!” She said crossly, “Besides, you’re the one to talk anyway! You, along with Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy, were the ones that got Twilight to say about my Yovidaphone playing like she has to be the one to tell me and make me upset! Don’t you think she wants to not upset me again?!”
“Well, yeah, but I wasn’t the only one that makes mistakes that we regret making! Applejack nearly ruined my fashion show with Photo Finish and Hoity Toity with her honesty about the dresses!”
“Hey, that was also, kind of, your fault too since you didn’t ask me first!” Applejack said crossly, “And besides, you blamed me for ruining your tour with Tenderhoof when he fell in love with me when I didn’t do anything to make that happen!”
“Yeah, well…Fluttershy hurt Pinkie and my feelings when she started being mean!” Rarity said making Fluttershy gasp before glaring at her while saying, “That’s because Iron Will made me become that and I didn’t realise what I was doing! And in case you haven’t forgotten, Rainbow Dash did a scary prank on me when she knows I get scared easily!”
“And I should not have done that,” said Rainbow feeling guilty, “Can’t argue on that. But I will say this. Pinkie kept giving me pies and had a go at me for not eating her pies when I don’t like pies and I didn’t tell her because I didn’t want to upset her!”
“Rainbow made me have a go at her for not telling me about not liking pies when she could have just told me!” Pinkie added.
“Applejack told Twilight to go back to Ponyville during Discord’s vines attacking and we agreed with her!” Rainbow said causing the four to look at her with a shock expressions on their faces while the sisters, Shining and Cadence stared at the five with wise eyed shock looks.
“Applejack upset me when I accidentally made a huge snow mess during Winter Wrap Up when I just wanting to help!” Said Twilight making Applejack cover her face with her hat in guilt.
“Pinkie played musical instruments to make the Parasprites leave Ponyville and decided not to tell us when would have saved the huge mess that happened!” Fluttershy said making Pinkie rub the back of her head nervously.
“Me and Trixie lost the Cutie Map during magic lessons while Twilight and the girls were out!” Said Starlight. The mane six stared at Starlight in shock.
“I love Thorax, even before he became king!” Flurry Heart said which made her parents stare at her in complete shock.
“Did I remember to bring extra bandages and healing potion with me?” Tempest asked herself while checking through her saddlebag.
Shining looked at everyone in the tent before saying, “I wanna ggggooooo!” Cadence stared at him in confusion as he just looked at his wife. “Sorry. Thought we were all having a thing here for a second. Heh.”
Celestia felt dizzy after hearing all those info as she rubbed her forehead while saying, “That’s a lot of information to get in thirty seconds.”
Celestia finished rubbing her forehead and starting to stand on her hooves. She walked over to Rainbow and politely said, “Rainbow, if you want to tell Pinkie you don’t like pies, then you can just tell her. I’m sure she would have understand you don’t like them, even when you’re trying not to upset her. But the next time you don’t like something and somepony makes you that, just be honest with them and tell them you don’t like it, okay?”
Rainbow slowly nodded her head in understood. Celestia turned to Pinkie as it was her turn. “Pinkie, you shouldn’t overreact to something that your friend is doing behind you, even when they didn’t want to upset you. If you discover something your friend is doing from the beginning, just ask them politely and try to understand why they did it. And don’t just do something and not tell your friends why you need to do it, even if it’s something they’ve didn’t know about before.”
Pinkie just nodded her head in understood instead of just responding like Rainbow did. Celestia walked over to Rarity who was next to speak to.
“Rarity, just because Tenderhoof fell in love with Applejack when you had a crush on him, doesn’t mean you can blame her when she didn’t do anything to make him love her, break your heart and ruin your tour. And you shouldn’t became what Applejack is just so he can love you. Becoming what your friend is won’t fix everything or make that pony love you instead of the other pony, especially if that pony’s your friend.”
Rarity sadly looked away in guilt knowing that Celestia was right. Applejack was her friend, and instead of just letting Tenderhoof be until he’s ready for the rest of her tour, she let her jealous get to her and blamed Applejack for ruining her tour and having her heart break by the one pony she had a crush on.
The sun princess turned to the farm pony and she was nervous inside as to what Celestia was gonna say to her.
“Applejack, I understand that unicorns are not allowed to use magic during Winter Wrap Up. But you should understand that Twilight didn’t mean to make things worst in your team . You can’t just get mad at somepony who just wanted to help and didn’t mean to break the one rule when they were new at something they knew nothing about.”
Applejack guiltily took her hat off and hold it on her chest while closing her eyes. She knew Celestia was right about that, and she shouldn’t be mad at somepony who just wanted to help. Celestia turned to Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy, I understand that you were tired of being treated like a doormat and not standing up to those that like treating you badly. But maybe next time, try asking one of your friends to help you stand up instead of someone who thinks they know best when they just make you become a bad pony, okay?”
Fluttershy nodded her head in understood before the princess walked over to Starlight as she was one of the last three to speak to.
“Starlight, I can tell you didn’t mean to lose the map when you were teaching Trixie new magic spells. But as long as you brought the map back and placed it back in its spot, then there’s nothing to worry. And I’m sure Twilight will understand that too.”
Starlight looked at Celestia for a few seconds before turning to Twilight who just smiled at her as she gave her a friendly wink showing that she does understand and knew she didn’t mean to let the map disappear from the castle. Starlight smiled at Twilight in return after seeing this.
Celestia walked over to Flurry Heart as she looked up to the white alicorn and saw she had a soft smile on her face.
“Flurry,” she said softly, “I truly understand you have feelings for Thorax, even after seeing he wasn’t like Chrysalis when he first entered the Crystal Empire. And I’m sure he loves you too when you’re old enough to go out with him.”
Flurry Heart smiled happily at the princess after hearing that. Celestia looked at Shining, with a not amused look, and said, “Don’t act so silly, Shining. Grow up.” That made Cadence snicker after hearing her aunt say that to her husband which made him have a small shock expression on his face.
Celestia looked at Tempest Shadow, being the last pony to speak to, as she politely said, “Fizzlepop, you did remember to bring extra bandages and healing potion. It’s in the other side of your saddlebag.”
Tempest checked the other side of her saddlebag and saw that Celestia was right. She did remember to bring extra bandages and healing potion with her, they were just in the other side of her saddlebag.
“Oh. So I did. Thanks.”
Celestia smiled softly at the reformed unicorn while giving her a nod. She turned towards the mane five and looked at them with a disappointed look on her face. It was time for her to say how disappointed she is after hearing what the five did when Discord’s vines were attacking.
“As for telling Twilight to go home during the vines attacking,” she begun, “I am very disappointed in the five of you. Twilight may be the last princess the vines were after, but she was still needed to save the Tree of Harmony and the only one who can bring the magic in the Elements. After all the adventures and missions, that was the one you thought Twilight shouldn’t be in when you can just protect her? She’s your friend, and friends should stick together no matter what.”
The mane five looked down in guilt and sadness while Applejack held her hat on her chest again. They all knew Celestia was right about Twilight being their friend and how they should have just protected her instead of sending her home to be safe.
“Even we’re disappointed too,” said Cadence as she, along with Luna and Shining, stared at the mane five with disappointing looks on their faces, “After hearing how you girls saved Equestria several times together, I thought it would have been clear that you still save the day together, even if the threat wants something to do with either one of you.”
“Yeah, but the vines and many things were trying to stop us from reaching the Tree of Harmony in time to save Celestia and Luna since they were after Twilight,” said Rarity.
“What does that matter?” Cadence asked crossly.
“That’s quite a lot when you’re trying to save the day and protecting your friends from harm’s way,” said Jacob.
“Well we often do protect our friends from any sort of dangers and threats,” said Applejack nicely, “Especially if that threat wants something to do with one of us or to stop us from fixing everything.”
“Then why didn’t you protect Twilight when you were all heading to the Tree of Harmony?” Shining asked crossly.
“How else were we supposed to get to the Tree without the vines or anything trying to capture Twilight?” Applejack asked crossly back, “Thought it’ll be safe for her and easy to save the Tree.”
“Well it didn’t,” said Cadence crossly, “And I bet it made Twilight feel like she’s not needed to help save Equestria from the vines, even if it’s just her they’re after.”
“It did,” said Twilight before looking down while closing her eyes in sadness as she remembered Applejack telling her to go home to stay safe when all it did was made her feel like she’s unwanted to help save the day.
Flurry Heart sadly looked at her aunt before walking towards her. Twilight suddenly felt a soft tug on her chest and a pair of hooves wrapping around her neck. She looked down and saw her niece hugging her trying to cheer her up.
“Please don’t be sad, Auntie Twily,” she said in a sweet tone, “I don’t like it when you’re sad.”
Twilight continued to look at Flurry hugging her as a smile grew on her face while a small tear rolled down her face. She gently hugged her niece back and nuzzled her cheek.
“Thank you,” she whispered in her ear.
Everyone, aside from Discord, smiled at the cute sight they were seeing from Twilight and Flurry Heart. Cosmos was smiling at the sight too, but was trying to make sure Discord and the others don’t see it.
“Your daughter has such a big heart,” said Tina kindly to Cadence.
“Yes,” replied Cadence while smiling at her daughter and sister-in-law, “Yes, she does.”
Flurry Heart turned to Celestia, while breaking the hug, before saying, “Princess Celestia, please don’t punish Auntie Twily for what she did to Queen Novo. I know what she did was wrong, but if what Pinkie said was true and that it was moons ago, I’m sure we can forget about it and…” Flurry Heart was stopped by a gentle hoof touching her shoulder as she saw Celestia smiling softly at her.
“It’s alright, my dear,” she said softly to the filly, “I know you don’t want Twilight to get into trouble for trying to stealing Queen Novo’s pearl long ago. And you’re right.”
“She is?!” Rarity asked in complete shock which earned a glare look from Princess Cadence.
Celestia nodded her head before saying, “I’ve known you girls since the day you defeat Nightmare Moon and became the new wielders to the Elements of Harmony. And Pinkie is known for quickly telling the truth, even when she doesn’t want any of her friends to get into trouble for what they did, mistake or not. So she had every right to tell the truth about Twilight so she doesn’t get into trouble.”
“I did?” Pinkie asked before realising that Celestia was right, “I mean, yes, I did.”
“So does that mean Twilight’s not in trouble?” Asked Fluttershy in hope.
Celestia smiled at the yellow Pegasus as she said, “Yes, Fluttershy. Twilight is not in trouble.”
The mane five sighed in relief. They were glad Twilight wasn’t in trouble after telling Celestia what happened during their mission to save Equestria from The Storm King.
“Besides,” Celestia continued but in a sad tone now, “She’s not the only princess that made a mistake long ago.”
Everyone looked at the sun princess in confusion.
“What do you mean?” Spike asked.
“Well, you see, Spike,” said Celestia before letting out a calm sigh, “It wasn’t supposed to be just me and Luna to rule Equestria. There was supposed to be three of us ruling Equestria. We had a brother.”
“A brother?!” Cadence asked in deep shock.
“Yes,” said Celestia while nodding her head at her niece, “His name was Solar. Prince of the Eclipse, and the second to be born before Luna.”
“So he was in charge of placing the sun and moon together on the night the Eclipse is shown,” said Twilight.
Celestia looked at Twilight while saying, “Correct. He was supposed to be the one bring the Eclipse on the nights it was to be shown. But on those Eclipse nights, it had been me and Luna showing it since Solar didn’t became the third ruler. He was full of anger when he was told what his guardian rule was when Mother and Aunt announced we were to become the next rulers of Equestria. They tried to help him understand, but his heart was filled with anger, hatred…and darkness. I still remember the night we lost him. I could never forget the first mistake I’ve made, as a princess.”
In the throne room of the castle, that wasn’t destroyed yet and still in clean looks on the walls, Celestia and Luna, when they were young like Twilight as unicorns and their manes and tails remaining like a normal pony mane and were pink and blue, were looking crossly at Solar who was glaring them back. He was a unicorn with a white coat, dark mane and tail, almost the same height as the two sisters and had a Eclipse cutie mark on his flank.
“How is this our fault?!” Celestia asked crossly, “We didn’t tell Mom and Auntie Lunar to give us the sun and moon role and give you the Eclipse role!”
“I don’t care!” Solar shouted angrily, “How come you two get the easiest and funniest roles and I only get the role that doesn’t always happen?! You get to rise the sun and moon every day and I just show the Eclipse when the night comes! It’s so unfair, and will not fit my role as the next ruler!”
“But at least you won’t feel left out!” Luna said crossly, “And we’re supposed to rule Equestria together! The three of us! It’s what Mom would have wanted before she and Auntie Lunar retires!
“Like I said, I don’t care! I will not rule Equestria with a stupid role that’s not gonna happen every day or every moon!”
“It’s our destiny, Solar!” Said Celestia crossly.
“Well maybe I prefer a destiny that doesn’t involve a role that’s not gonna happen every day while my stupid sisters gets an exciting role each!”
“Well maybe we’re better off without a brother LIKE YOU!” Celestia yelled angrily with her horn sparkling a bit.
Celestia suddenly saw the shock look on Solar’s face before it turned into a sad look as a tear rolled down the unicorn’s face. Celestia stared shockingly at her brother after realising what she had just said to him. Even Luna was surprised at Celestia’s outburst, she had never heard her sister yell like that before.
“Solar, I-I didn’t mean to…” Before Celestia could say more, Solar glared angrily at her while saying, “You wish to rule Equestria without me, fine. I’ll make sure your wish comes true.” He then ran out of the throne room and probably towards his room.
“Solar, wait!” Celestia called out. But it wasn’t any good. Solar was far away from the throne room to even hear his sister calling out to him.
Celestia looked down with her eyes closed as tears rolled down her face. She felt guilty after yelling at her brother and saying they were better off ruling Equestria without him. Luna decided to stay and try to comfort her big sister. Even though she did and say was wrong, she couldn’t just leave her and act like she wasn’t gonna take any part of her action.
Just then, two alicorns walked into the throne room and went to Celestia.
One alicorn had a yellow faded white coat with purple and orange mane and tail that flowed in four streaks of rosey pink and her cutie mark was a sun with a white diamond on it. That was Celestia and Luna’s mother, Princess Crystal Sun.
The other alicorn was black with dark purple mane and tail that flowed with tiny sparks of stars and her cutie mark was a moon with tiny stars around it. That was their aunt and Crystal Sun’s sister, Princess Lunar.
Celestia looked at her mother and aunt, showing the tears in her eyes. She tried to explain, but before she could, Crystal Sun gently placed a hoof on her shoulder and smiled softly at her showing that she knows she didn’t mean to yell at Solar.
“My mother told me not to worry about Solar and that she and Aunt Lunar will try to help Solar out. But I was a bit worried about him after saying he’s gonna make sure what I said to him came true.”
We then go to many moons later after that event and see Celestia and Luna, now nearly as adult ponies and now alicorns, sleeping in their own beds in the same bedroom.
“Many moons later, when me and Luna became alicorns, we were a month away from becoming the new rulers of Equestria and our mother and aunt’s retirement. But one night, as we were asleep, we were woken up by the sound of our mother and aunt screaming. We rushed down the hallway to see what was wrong as we saw what made us both shock and really upset.”
Celestia and Luna gasped in shock and horrified to what they were seeing. Laying down on the hallway floor was Princess Crystal Sun and Princess Lunar with their eyes closed, not moving and blood flowing on the ground and around the two alicorns. They were dead.
“Mom!” Celestia cried worriedly before towards the alicorns.
“Aunt Lunar!” Cried Luna worriedly as she ran towards the alicorns too.
The sisters stood around the dead alicorns as tears started to form in their eyes. They wished this was a nightmare, but it wasn’t. It was all real. Their mother and aunt were now dead.
“How? How did this happen?!” Celestia asked in a sad tone, “Who would do such a thing to our mother and aunt?!”
Suddenly, they heard a knife dropped to the floor. Celestia and Luna turned and saw a knife standing through the floor with the blade through it with the killer standing near it. It was none other than Solar.
“Solar? You did all of this?” Celestia asked shockingly, “You killed Mom and Aunt Lunar?!”
“It was the only way,” replied Solar while walking up to the sisters.
“Only way to what?” Luna asked in a cross tone, “To get the role you actually wanted?!”
“I’ve moved on from that moons ago,” said Solar.
“Then what is it, Solar?” Asked the angry white alicorn, “What reason do you have for killing them?”
“For us,” he answered, “I did it for us to have our rightful place on the thrones, and to do our roles with no right time, no day, and no waiting. We can rise the sun and moon and show the Eclipse whenever we want to.”
Celestia and Luna were in shock after hearing what Solar had just said to them. He killed his own mother and aunt just so he can have the throne and show the Eclipse whenever he wants to, and he’s involving his sisters in the plan too. The two sisters glared angrily at their own brother.
“For us?!” Luna said crossly, “You murdered the only family we had left just so you can have the throne now, ignore the duty of your role and show the Eclipse whenever you want to, and you’re getting us involved with this?! How could you! The Solar we know would never turn into a murderer and kill his own mother and aunt!”
Solar’s happiness was now crashed after hearing Luna say that and seeing they’re not gonna appreciate what he did as his stared angrily at the two before saying,
“That’s it? That’s all you have to say to me?! I’ve forgotten about what you said to me moons ago, and you don’t appreciate what I did for us to do what we want as rulers?!”
“Solar, this is murder!” Celestia said crossly, “You don’t understand what we could be up against or what we might go through!”
“No, Celestia, you two, along with Mom and Aunt Lunar, don’t understand what I’VE been! I’ve spent months and days waiting for the nights to show the Eclipse every moon! I even got into trouble when I showed the Eclipse on the wrong nights, even after learning how to show it! You think you had problems with trying to lift the sun and moon early and before bed? I got tired of waiting for my time, Celestia! Meanwhile, where have you two been, getting used to lifting the sun and moon at the right time, having to wake up early and before it’s time for bed when you could be living the life and doing lifting the sun and moon whenever you want to!”
“We should be mad? We should be mad, Solar? How can you say that when not everypony gets the role they really want?!” Luna asked angrily, “Mom and Aunt Lunar were trying to help you see what good you could do for your Eclipse role when you wouldn’t listen to them!”
“Well listen to this, you won’t accept doing your role whenever you want, fine!” Solar used his magic to lift the knife up from the floor as he grabbed Celestia by the neck while saying, “I’ll just kill your own and only sister so your anger will make you change your mind!”
“No!” Luna shouted in fear as she grabbed her sister’s hoof and tried to save her, “You don’t understand!”
“You once said you wanted to do better with your role so I’m gonna make that wish come true!” Solar said while pulling Celestia away from Luna before pulling the knife to her neck ready to cut it open.
“I’m not losing my sister too!” Luna jumped towards Solar and pushed him making him let go Celestia and the knife as it landed through the floor a bit again.
Solar pushed Luna off of him and got back onto his hooves. He saw the knife and ran towards it only for it to be lifted by Celestia’s magic as she pulled it away from Solar while glaring at him.
“Solar,” she began, “For the murder of our mother and aunt, I’m afraid you’ve left me no choice but to place you under arrest.”
“You don’t have to do this, Celestia,” said Solar, “With us now having the thrones, we can raise the sun and moon and show the Eclipse whenever we want. Nopony can tell us when to do them and…”
“No, Solar!” Luna said angrily as she stood by her sister’s side, “That’s not how rulers work or what we can do now! What do you think’s gonna happen?! That we’re gonna betray our ponies and disobey our roles?! This is our destiny! We’re supposed to follow the destiny and roles the right way!”
“We can now have responsibility to make our roles and Equestria better if you would just lis…”
“I don’t give a flying feather if we have responsibility now and I don’t care if I have to continued raising the moon before my sleep!” Luna said angrily, “This is my Equestria, and I will not let you stop me from protecting my ponies!”
“You don’t know what you’re saying, Luna. And I can’t let you ruin everything.”
Celestia breaks the knife with her magic, so Solar couldn’t get any more ideas, and drops the blade and holder to the floor before saying, “Luna knows exactly what she’s saying. And we won’t let you make things worse for Equestria.”
Solar glared at his sisters, or rather ex-sisters now, as he closed his eyes and then said, “So be it.”
Solar made a huge dark grasp magic blast at Celestia and Luna causing them to slide backwards on their hooves as smoke appeared around them. The two coughed while trying to find Solar. While still coughing and trying to clear the smoke away, Luna saw Solar running past her and heading down the hallway and onto the right.
“Celestia, he’s getting away!”
“After him, Luna!”
Celestia and Luna ran out from the smoke and down the hallway towards the right where Solar headed. But it was a dead end, and Solar was nowhere to be seen. There was no doors, the window wasn’t broken and the ceiling remained the same.
“He’s gone!”
“Check every room in the castle, Luna! He can not have gone far!”
Luna gave her sister a serious nod as the two split up and searched throughout every area and room in the castle for Solar. However, after searching every guest room, the bedrooms, the bathroom, the library and even the throne room, they still couldn’t find Solar. It was then they believed Solar had escaped and is now somewhere in Equestria hiding from them.
“We had no luck in finding Solar after that night. So we made announcement to everypony about the death of our mother and aunt before taking the thrones. As for the disappearance of Solar, we kept that secret so nopony can feel worried him or believe we’re not worthy of taking the thrones since one of our family members was a murderer.”
“I couldn’t risk disappointing our mother if we did tell anypony,” said Celestia sadly, “There’s no telling what they might do if we did.”
“And you didn’t tell me about him to protect me from him,” guessed Twilight.
“Yes,” replied Celestia with a nod, “I did it to keep you safe from him. If you knew about him and tried to find him so you can help him change his ways, he probably would have hurt or kill you. His heart is filled with anger, hatred and darkness. I couldn’t risk losing you. I lost my mother and aunt before losing Luna and Sunset, I can’t lose you as well.”
“I understand,” said Twilight while walking up to the princess, “But you mustn’t keep feel guilty for what you did long ago or feel like it was all your fault it happened. If you continue letting that guilt and pain get to you, it’s gonna make things worse. And we all make mistakes sometimes, but we always have a way to move on from them. You may have done something that you didn’t mean to do, but that didn’t stop you from being the princess of the sun and protecting Equestria with Luna. And without you, I wouldn’t have met my friends, saved three unicorns, and raise a baby dragon.”
Spike blushed at that last bit as Celestia smiled at the purple alicorn.
“Thanks, Twilight,” she said softly, “That meant a lot to me.”
Twilight smiled back at Celestia until something popped into her mind.
“But, there is just one thing unaccounted for. Where did Solar go after escaping?” She asked.
“To be honest, that’s the one thing we don’t know,” answered Celestia.
“But we decided it’s best not to worry about it and just continue ruling Equestria and protecting everypony,” added Luna earning a nod from her sister.
“Wow,” said Theseus, “You lot must have made a lot of mistakes over the years. No offence.”
“None taken,” replied Sunset politely, “And it really doesn’t matter to us really. Because even if we do make mistakes, there’s always a way for us to fix them and move on from them. And we learn a friendship lesson from that mistake too.”
“Yeah,” added Gallus, “Some of us used to think that friendship meant nothing to us, until we learned it does. And without it, we wouldn’t have become friends, saved the day and met Lightning Twister who also became our friend.”
“And we love seeing him happy and smile,” said Silverstream.
“Until that Darkness showed up with his nightmares and his Legion of Doom 2 that’s more worst than Discord’s,” said Smolder crossly while crossing her arms.
“Heard that!” Discord said crossly.
“You were supposed to!” Shouted Smolder crossly.
“Seems like this Darkness person has grouped some of our enemies so he can get the kid easily if he is after him,” said Doctor Strange.
“Do you think some of them might come back!” Ocellus asked worriedly.
“Quite possible, kid,” Strange answered, “Quite possible. He won’t be giving up so easily after that failure attack anyway.”
“You know, if we all team up, we can get to the Tree of Life, stop Darkness and save our worlds together and it can make things a lot easier for us all,” suggested Pinkie.
Everyone looked at each other while thinking about that suggestion.
“Well I can always use a break from baking and selling,” said Jacob happily, “And I’m quite ready for another adventure.”
“So you’ll help?” Flurry Heart asked happily in hope.
“Count us in,” said Albus giving the filly a thumbs up.
“Awesome!” Said Rainbow proudly, “This is gonna be so cool!”
“I know right!” Agreed Sora.
“Ugh! That’s just great!” Discord said crossly and rudely while crossing his arms, “More people in this group means less fun for me.”
“Oh moan and whence all you want, Discord,” said Applejack crossly, “We need all the help we can get to save the poor sugarcube.”
“Yeah!” Agreed Rainbow, “And it’ll be fun having a Sorcerer, four wizards, two witches and a baker on the team!”
“Agreed!” Said Donald.
“Oh and you still wanna help that colt who took Fluttershy away from me and ruined everything for me!”
“Discord, we are getting really sick and tired of your behaviour towards Lightning right now,” said Twilight angrily, “And Lightning didn’t take Fluttershy away from you, you just think that. And he didn’t ruin anything for you, you brought those past actions on yourself!”
“Well perhaps it’ll be much easier for me if that little brat haven’t gotten into Fluttershy’s life in the first place, then I would have been happy still and having tea with my friend!”
Albus Dumbledore had enough of what Discord was doing and saying as he angrily stood up, making Discord flinch and look at him in fear, while saying, “Discord, outside! Right now!”
Albus walked towards the zip of the tent with Discord following him. He unzipped the tent and went out while Discord did the same. But Albus didn’t zip the tent though, meaning that everyone in the tent can actually hear what Albus is saying to Discord. And boy, he was not happy when speaking to the Lord of Chaos.
“I don’t know what it is you’re doing, but this is a very hard time for all of us! Grindelwald and other enemies have joined an enemy we’ve never faced before! And you’re treating a poor innocent child like he’s nothing after having a hard life?! Whatever it is that gives you the rights to upset Fluttershy’s son, stop it, get back in there, be nice to Lightning Twister and there’ll be no desert for you!”
Everyone was in complete shock after hearing Albus telling Discord off in an angry tone, especially Aurelius, Newt and his friends and brother. They’ve never seen or heard Albus be this angry before.
“Look at me when I’m talking to you!” Albus continued.
“Never heard Albus be this angry before,” said Newt in surprised.
“Ne neither,” agreed Theseus, “New stuff always come in surprising ways in every turn.”
In an area that had grey metal walls and parts of what seems like machine stuffs, Darkness and the hooded pony was walking down the metal hallway in search of something. Something that will help them get Lightning Twister.
Doors slide open as the two walked into the room where the thing they were after was in.
“You said this thing we’re looking is special,” said the hooded pony.
“Oh, he’s beyond special, my boy,” replied Darkness, “He’s what we need to get a hold of Lightning Twister, take what we want, and destroy everyone that gets in the way. Including Sora. Someone else used to be here once, and now he’s helping me. But I’ll explain about him later.”
Darkness reached his hand out and made the metal floor slide open. He stood back a bit, so he wouldn’t fall in, as a big glass box rose from the ground. The hooded pony saw what inside the glass box before asking, “Is that it? Is that what you’re after?”
“Yes,” answered Darkness, “He’s what I’m after. The one key to help stop anyone from getting in our way.”
“Who is he?” Asked the pony.
Darkness looked at him before answering, “Project: Shadow.”