//------------------------------// // The Coronation // Story: The Return of Sombra // by WriteAboutHorses //------------------------------// Chapter 4: The Coronation Twilight and friends departed the train at the Crystal Empire, eventually they reached the city where a crowd of Crystal Ponies were gathered at the castle. “Oh no, the coronation is starting an hour early!” Twilight gasped “If King Sombra does reveal himself there’s nothing we can do!” “Fillies and Gentlecolts!” Spike announced from the castle balcony “May I present to you: Princess Cadence and Shining Armor!” Cadence and Shining Armor walked out to the balcony, not only were they in crystal form but were dressed for the occasion. Shining Armor was wearing his wedding suit with the Crystal Empire emblem on the front of it and Cadence was wearing a long blue dress and the Traditional Royal Headdress. An elderly crystal pony wearing a white robe followed them out “1 month ago today, Princess Cadence, with the help of Spike, the dragon, saved the Crystal Empire from the clutches of the evil King Sombra! Today Cadence and her husband, Shining Armor will be crowned Prince and Princess of the Crystal Empire!” the priest announced “Also, Spike will be knighted by the new prince due to his heroic efforts of bringing the Crystal Heart to us in the nick of time!” “Ooooh this is so exciting, I love coronations!” Pinkie exclaimed “If Twilight is right, this might be the last coronation we’ll ever see” Luna worried. “And so, by the power invested in me by the previous Crystal Queen, I hereby crown Cadence, Princess Cadence of the Crystal Emp-” “Stop!” a voice yelled from inside the castle “Uh oh!” Twilight gasped “Do not coronate these ponies” Trixie cried as she walked onto the balcony. “In the name of King Sombra, I, The Great and Powerful Trixie, will not allow these two to not be given such power for their actions!” “What actions?” Cadence asked “For what you’ve done to me!” a deep, burly voice echoed from seemingly nowhere Trixie’s amulet started to glow as it projected the image of King Sombra once again, but when it stopped glowing, Sombra was still there. Trixie fainted from releasing so much energy through the amulet “I fooled that mare into believing I was a good pony who just wanted his empire back, and she actually believed me!” Sombra bragged The Crystal Ponies knelt down to activate the Crystal Heart but Sombra’s horn started glowing, his black aura surrounded the heart and it shattered to pieces. All the Crystal Ponies immediately lost their crystal glow and they went into their depressed state. Sombra laughed, “The Crystal Empire is mine once more!” Cadence flew down to the ground and carried Shining Armor with her. As soon as Cadence landed her wings disappeared and she turned smaller and younger, like how she was when she was Twilight’s foal sitter. She was now just a normal unicorn. Sombra held up a black box with the Crystal Heart engraved on top of it “These are your wings, if you want them you have to come get them” Rainbow Dash flew straight up to Sombra but the box vanished and Sombra laughed “I said Cadence had to come and get them not one of her little friends” “And how’s she supposed to get them when she can’t even get up here? You locked all the castle doors and she can’t fly” “Oh, did I? Oh well” Sombra went back inside as his dark crystals began to surround the castle walls and the sky turned brown. The Mane 6, along with Spike, Luna, Shining Armor and Cadence left the Crystal Empire to go to Canterlot. Sombra had taken the Elements of Harmony from the ponies so they couldn’t stop him with them. When the reached the train station, Cadence looked back at the Empire, tears in her eyes “The Crystal Empire…..has fallen.”