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// Part 1-3 
// Story: A Blaze Brought Forth Again 
// by Tyler-the-Brony 
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	Embers of Time: The Charred Past

Chapter 3: The Final Ingredient

“So you do at last fully remember everything. I am glad I was able to help you.” Blaze Bringer mockingly told Chrysalis, wanting to enjoy himself a short bit longer before he entered the final stage of his ceremony.

“Save it brother. I know not how you became like this as I have not seen you in more than a thousand years, but I can guess that you brought me here for some almighty purpose. So simply tell me what it is already.” Chrysalis spit back at Blaze Bringer, the resentment within her towards Breeze Rider at this moment blotting out any and all happy memories of him.

Blaze Bringer smiled up again at Chrysalis, though this time a bit more content than the other times he had done so.

“Very well Chrysalis. I do indeed need you for a grand purpose. I need you for what you are even in this banished and separated form; I need you as a piece of Luna.” Blaze Bringer manipulated his words, certain that his methods would entice more questions from Chrysalis.

“What do you mean by that? By what use am I good for as a part of that wretched Princess of the Night?” Chrysalis asked, venom licking her words as she remembered the being she had lived with until two years ago.

Blaze Bringer intently focused on the materials below him at the current moment though, needing absolute focus to finish the antidote he so desperately needed.


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For 15 minutes, Chrysalis demanded an answer from Blaze Bringer while he focused on his brew. Eventually, as Blaze Bringer dropped in the few hairs he had managed to procure from Zecora as the second last needed ingredient of the antidote, Chrysalis grew silent and decided she would receive her answer when it was needed.

Blaze Bringer remained silent for another 10 minutes after adding the zebra hairs, in absolute focus as he double checked every single thing he had done thus far with his antidote to make sure he was fully prepared to add the last ingredient. Once satisfied he could do no more with what he had already procured, Blaze Bringer again focused on Chrysalis as he prepared himself to say what he had been building up to all this time.

“Like it or not Chrysalis, you were once Luna and she was once you. In more ways than just appearance and mindset. You were the same equine for many a year. Which means you still have the one thing I require in order to complete my antidote….the blood of an Alicorn Princess.” Blaze Bringer maniacally smiled as he looked upon Chrysalis at his statement.

“BLOOD?! You intend to take my blood for your godless antidote?! What makes you think I would allow you to do such a thing?!” Chrysalis screamed at Blaze Bringer, fully afraid of the pony she had once called her brother now.

“You have no choice in the matter Chrysalis. My magic was always stronger than yours, even as Nightmare Moon. Had I not been overseeing the Crystal Kingdom at that point, you would have never been a threat. Especially now, weakened as you are by the Elements and the Princesses Power, you are nothing to me.” Blaze Bringer explained, focused again as he raised up what was called a Celestial Blade, one of the few things that could make an alicorn bleed, with his magic.

Chrysalis struggled and screamed, terrified at what she knew would come very soon. Even with a thousand years of solitude from Equestria, she had never forgotten the threat of the Celestial Blade. 

The Celestial Blade could be emblazoned with the same magic as an Alicorn or a Cutie Mark so that it could only hurt that particular pony. The Celestial Blade was not intended to kill though. The Celestial Blades were created long ago by a long destroyed enemy kingdom of Equestria as a means to keep powerful war prisoners exactly where they were. The Celestial Blades could impale the soul and bind it to only one spot, a very impressive means of keeping ponies where they were needed. Against those that struggled or when used by those who were truly gifted with wielding them, the Blades could also cause injury enough to bleed.

Blaze Bringer at last finished polishing the Celestial Blade with a few of Luna’s Hairs as it took on the mark of Luna’s Cutie Mark upon its edge. Blaze Bringer raised the Blade and levelled it with Chrysalis’ heart while increasing his binding magic upon her so that she could not move a single inch to ruin this moment.

“At last….my time has come again.” Blaze Bringer spoke aloud as he sent the Celestial Blade forward with his magic, directly on target with where he had intended it to go.

The pain Chrysalis felt was as though every single atom of her very being was spontaneously combusting at once. Within a few short seconds of her screams finishing, Chrysalis felt the blood begin to drip down her coat towards the ground.

Blaze Bringer collected a small amount of the blood and manipulated it slowly within the rest of the antidote, focused but slowly losing the face he typically used to hide his intent focus as his giddiness grew at the prospect of at last completing the antidote he had slaved over for the last 9 years. 


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A long hour passed before a single word was spoken again in the cave. It was Chrysalis who would speak, weakened greatly by the Celestial Blade and her brother’s magic.

“Why?...” Chrysalis coughed out as she felt the burning of the Celestial Blade began to subside a small amount.

“So that I can at last get the revenge I deserve on a land that has long forgotten what I once did for it.” Blaze Bringer called back as his antidote at last began to shift colours, until it at last it settled on the black of the night sky for its colour.

Blaze Bringer smiled again as at last his plans were realized. No longer would Celestia hold him here. No longer would anypony never know there was once a third Alicorn Ruler. No more would anypony never feel the wrath brought forth by Blaze Bringer as he again took what he needed from Equestria.