Spike was horrified at the show. Sean’s body had just been thrown onto the stairs only a few steps below him. He was about to go grab him when he heard the dragonponies talk.
“Should we put him with the other foods?”
“No I bet he’s really stringy just leave him.”
He heard footsteps heading back down the hall. Spike grabbed Sean’s arm and began to drag him up the steps. When he reached the door he pulled the stick out of the handles and opened the door.
“Twilight!” he called out as he pulled his friends body all the way out and some guards closed the door. He heard hoof steps
when he turned he saw Twilight and Sean’s guards.
One of Sean’s guards gasped. “What happened!?”
“The dragoponies happened.”
“I told him he couldn’t handle them!” Twilight yelled.
“Yeah he couldn’t handle them but he’s not moving!”
Twilight then used a spell to x-ray his body, “Yep, most of his bones are broken and part of his skull is caved in.”
Twilight was sitting around she, Spike, and the guards were trying to figure out what to do. It looked like they had killed Sean.
Then one of Sean’s guards turned to the other. “Hey Kopis, didn’t the princess say one time she saved his life by charging him with magic?”
“Oh yeah! She said that he absorbed it and he healed.”
Twilight turned to them. “Great so I’ll just do that!”
She walked up to Sean’s body. She charged her horn with magic and then touched it to Sean. Then was a flash and Twilight felt very tired and almost fell over. She looked at the body hopefully but nothing happened.
“It.. it didn’t work.” She lowered her head and started to cry.
Sean’s guards walked up to her one of them spoke. “Don’t worry Twilight, the princess said when she healed him she almost passed out. That means it took a lot of magic.”
After an hour Twilight had gathered 25 unicorn guards. “Ok guys! We have a way to heal Sean and get the Princess and others back to normal!”
“How?” a guard asked.
“If you just charge your horn with magic and touch him he will absorb the magic.”
Twilight got all the guards in a line and had each one charge Sean. When it was all said and done Sean’s body was completely healed. Twilight walked up to his body and put her ear against his chest. There was no sound of a beating heart. When she listened she also heard no breathing.
“It still didn’t work!”
After a brief vigil Twilight decided they still needed to fix the dragonponies to make sure Sean didn’t die in vain. After some thinking she had the solution.
“I’ve got it!” she turned to a guard, “the dragonponies are carnivorous right?”
“Yes.” The guard nodded his head.
“Then all we need to do is sprinkle the ashes of the Scale rose on some meat and throw it down there, they will then eat the meat and in turn swallow the ash.”
Once they had gathered some meat from a dead guard they had Spike burn the roses, they “seasoned” the meat and then threw it down.
After about four hours of waiting there was knocking at the door from the dungeon. Then the door was forced open by magic and Princess Celestia walked out looking like her normal self, along with Shining Armor and Cadence.
The princess walked up to Twilight looking a bit confused. “Twilight what’s going on? And why are there a bunch of dead
guards down stairs?”
One of Sean’s guards then told them what had happened Twilight noticed he left out what had happened to Sean. After the recap Celestia stood up.
“And where is Sean? I’m surprised Mister Ego let others solve the problem.”
“Well Princess that’s the thing.” She then pointed to Sean’s body Progenitus had curled up next to him.
“Ah asleep, why am I not surprised?” The princess then walked up to him and poked at him with her hoof. “Sean, wake up.”
“Um princess, he’s not going to wake up.”
“Of course he will Twilight. I know he can be a heavy sleeper but you can still wake him.” She then poked him again a bit harder this time.
“No princess he will never wake up again.”
“What do you mean.”
That is when one of his guards intervened. “Princess he’s dead.
The bluntness of the statement shocked everyone. Princess Celestia sat down her eyes looking rather vacant. “But how he doesn’t die.”
Once again Sean’s guard spoke“He was weak and basically mortal and he went down to confront you guys and you killed him.”
The princess looked almost on the verge of tears. She started muttering something that none of them could understand. Twilight decided to take charge at the moment they needed to set up a funeral.
After two days of working Sean’s funeral was ready. The Princess had ordered that he be buried in a special tomb in the palace basement. They put him in a large coffin shaped like a dragon. The princess had also ordered that the news of his death not leave the palace until she felt up to it. The Wonder Bolts attended the funeral to see of the one who got them started.
Twilight was worried about the princess; she had become very anti-social over the past two days. She seemed to just going through the motions of the day.
At the end of the day they put the coffin in the tomb and locked the door.
Everyone started to leave. Princess Celestia lingered for a moment. “Goodbye Sean.” She then turned and walked away.