//------------------------------// // Epilogue // Story: Revenant Soul: Genesis and The Weather Elements // by cyber_pony13 //------------------------------// Canterlot Castle “And that’s what happened your majesty.” Applejack finished explaining to Princess Celestia. “I see…thank you girls for everything you have done.” Princess Celestia looked at her student. “I’m sorry what happened but we will stop at nothing to find him. If what you said is true…then he is bound to be there.” Princess Celestia’s heart was breaking seeing her student so down. All the girls felt the effects of the last mission but Twilight was hurting the most out of all of them. None of them could fathom what she was going through. Princess Celestia went up to Twilight and put her hoof on her shoulder. “Twilight…we will find him. You need to have faith in him.” She assured her student. Twilight was silent for a moment before looking up at her tutor. “It’s…its okay Princess Celestia…I know everything will be alright…” Twilight calmly responded. Everypony was confused at Twilight’s response. They looked at each other and then at Twilight trying to understand her. “Yes everything will be alright my faithful student. Your faith in him is unwavering.” Princess Celestia said to Twilight. “But Twilight how could you be so sure of…” Pinkie Pie began but Rainbow Dash and Applejack silenced the mare. “Its okay girls I know everything will be fine.” Twilight said to them. “But how do you know?” Fluttershy asked. “That’s easy…Revenant promised he would come back. He always keeps his promises. Just watch he’ll be back in Ponyville in no time and everything will be okay again.” Twilight said with a smile. Twilight then made her way out of the throne room. The rest of her friends and the ponysprites looked at each other and knew that she was only lying to herself. She only did that to show that she’d be fine but they all knew that she was going to be suffering the most. They all agreed that they would have to be there for Twilight until Revenant’s return. They followed their friend out of the throne room leaving Princess Celestia to herself. “Unfortunately I was right about him…” Princess Luna appeared with a frown on her face. “I’m sorry…I didn’t think this would happen.” “It’s alright my sister…” Princess Celestia started. “It’s not. I predicted that Revenant would bring trouble and he did. Now look, Twilight is in pain because she finally met the love of her life and now he is gone.” Princess Luna explained. “I know which is why we have to find him.” Princess Celestia turned to her sister. “Tragedies happen but what matters is what we do to fix them. Revenant did everything he could to fix things when he messed up and he did…and I forgive him for that.” “Wait…you knew what happened in the mountains?” Princess Luna asked “But of course…I’m you’re older sister and I know what my little sister is up to.” Princess Celestia said with a smile. “I see…guess I can’t hide anything from you huh.” Princess Luna sheepishly replied. “Well you did a good job hiding that assistant of yours, but he kind of made himself obvious later on.” “So you know of Nightingale also.” “Yes I do…Luna can I ask you a favor?” “But of course.” “Thank you…I want you to have that assistant of yours lead the search and rescue of Revenant Soul. That will be his task and will not be relieved of it until he is found. I know it may seem harsh but we’ve still got our duties to fulfill. Having someone like him handling this would greatly aid us.” Princess Celestia explained. “I see…I will find Nightingale and inform him of his mission and sister…” “Yes Luna?” “Thank you…” “For what?” “I don’t really know…I guess calming my nerves down after I said I was right. You quickly thought of a solution to an answer where I would’ve broken down. I wish I could be as strong as you…” “You are. You fought against the battle within yourself for a thousand years. You made the corruption in you weak enough for the Elements of Harmony to return you back to me. So please continue to do well my sister.” Princess Celestia embraced her younger sibling. After the regal sisters had their moment, Princess Luna flew off to find Nightingale. Princess Celestia sat in her throne thinking of all the events that had happened. Everything that had occurred didn’t seem to add up. The weather elements being disrupted by Discord was coincidence but then other things didn’t make sense. The dogs interest in the elements, a mad professor wanting to control the weather, and the rise of abyssal magic. All these things connected to Revenant, but Princess Celestia knew that it wasn’t him. She knew that Revenant was innocent to all these things and only wanted a new life. “Hmm…Nightingale…” Princess Celestia thought out loud. “Just where did you even come from?” There was something about Nightingale that bothered her. She did know of him, but she questioned exactly where he got his information. More importantly how knowledgeable he was on the situations. His mere presence alone was unsettling. There was something about Nightingale that made Princess Celestia…uncertain. Princess Celestia didn’t like uncertainty because she knew with uncertainty there would be trouble in the horizon. Revenant woke up to find himself in the darkness once more. He searched around for where he might be and thought that he might be in a dream. As he searched he found a bonfire once more. He went up to it and lit it. The flame grew and a spark of light flew out of the fire. It then illuminated where he was. “Wait a minute…I’m in the mine? Something isn’t right though…it as if this place was….” Revenant stopped as he felt a familiar presence appear. “Welcome back Revenant. I told you we’d talk again and here we are.” The dark manifestation appeared to him once more. “You again!? No I can control you now so why are you here!?” Revenant demanded. Revenant noticed something odd in his body. He didn’t feel any of his wounds at all. He didn’t feel fatigue and felt all his strength back with him. “What the…why do I feel good all of a sudden?” Revenant muttered. “Ah so you’ve noticed. Allow me to explain.” The manifestation cleared his throat. “Welcome Revenant Soul…to the abyss!” “Wha….the abyss?” Revenant responded with wide eyes. “That’s right…you are once again back within the abyss. The last time you didn’t really enjoy your stay so please allow me to welcome you properly this time.” The manifestation said. When he finished dark shades appeared from the darkness. Revenant could see they were the souls of those who were consumed by the abyss. They slowly moved in to him. “No…this isn’t right…I destroyed the abyssal artifacts. There’s no way I should be in here.” Revenant said. “That’s where you are wrong. There is a proper way to dispose of abyssal artifacts and what you did just released the abyss into Equestria. “ “No…you mean I…I brought the abyss into Equestria?” Revenant lamented. “Correct although with the cave in we’re trapped here but no matter…we’ll get out soon enough. We just need to…gain some more power that’s all.” The manifestation turned to Revenant. Revenant felt an unsettling nerve through his body. The shades sent it and began to get excited. “What….what do you plan on doing?” Revenant asked. “Easy…we are going to collect our dues from you Revenant. We do hope that you are ready to pay up front because if not…” The manifestation looked at the shades with a smile. “Well…I don’t think I need to answer this from here.” “Then why do I feel so refreshed all of a sudden?” “The abyss doesn’t really like it’s….merchandise being damaged. It truly does like you so being all beaten up like that would only make things bad for it. So it wanted to make sure you’d be in tip-top condition before it decided to collect.” The manifestation answered. “Big mistake…I’ll just fight my way out of here.” Revenant said letting soul magic flow through his horn. “Good…the abyss likes that. Do fight well Revenant; we would be disappointed to consume such a tasty meal in a matter of seconds. We love to savor the flavor so please do well. Oh and welcome home, please over stay your welcome.” The manifestation finished and disappeared. The shades then began to move in on Revenant. The light quickly flashed blinding the shades and flew deep into the dark. Some of the shades went after it while the rest turned to Revenant. Always endure… “*sigh* Guess I got to follow that light huh? Oh well. I’m sorry Twilight, guess you’re gonna have to wait awhile before I come back home. But don’t worry…I’ll make it out of here and when I do we can be together again.” Revenant sighed. He then looked upon his enemies with determination in his eyes. “Because I feel our bond, our love, and nothing will keep me away from being with you. I’ll cut down any obstacle that stands in my way!” Revenant shouted. A shade lunged at him but he quickly sliced it in half with a soul divide. After that he charged head on into the darkness, fighting for his light, his love…for Twilight. And we're done! Man, I did not expect myself to be writing this long on this story. To think I started this just to see how it would go but it became a habit for me after work to continue writing this story. I'm really glad I got to finish it off. There were a couple moments I thought I was going to drop the project and let it die but you readers kept me going. That's right, you readers kept me going even when it felt as though it didn't matter. I do have to thank Big_Macintosh_1992 and WX204. These guys were with me from the very beginning and are awesome pre-readers for me. I do hope to see something from them so I can help them out as much as they've helped me. I would love to hear any feedback of the story, and I mean anything. Now I take a break and work on a couple of other projects and read on ponies, because I wll return with more to come.