//------------------------------// // When the sun went out. // Story: Darkness and fear. // by DisharmonyandChaos //------------------------------// Marcus lunged at the princess with unbelievable speed, he grabbed her and sent her forward towards the wall before phasing through the bricks. Leaving behind only a black stain on the wall that slowly moved across the wall. "PRINCESS CELESTIA!" They all shouted in horror, the guards struggled as hard as they could to break from the shadow that held them firm to the ground. "WH-WHERE DID THEY GO!?" Twilight shouted looking directly at where they had phased through. pressing her hooves firmly against the blackness that was consuming the wall. "c-c-can we go home now?..." Fluttershy said as she was laying on the ground covering her eyes and shaking violently. "No we cant go home! THE PRINCESS HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED!" Fluttershy only shook more when her friend yelled. "I-Im sorry fluttershy, but we gotta get out of here and tell princess luna!" "And how!" Applejack added in. "Come on lets go!" Twilight began to run up the stairs, the others following shortly afterwords. "W-wait you're just gonna leave us!?" one of the guards cried out. "We'll send somepony down to get you!" Twilight shouted. The 6 ponies frantically ran atop the hidden staircase, they did not bother to close the stairway or the harmony chamber, couldn't leave those guards down there. "Twilight what are we gonna do!? The princess said that he can't be beat!" Rainbow said flying along side the running purple unicorn. "Thats impossible! Everything can be defeated." "But she said-" "Well she may of been lying! you heard her say they were best friends she may of been protecting him!" As they ran along the dress he had forced onto rarity suddenly faded into nothing more then black dust which then blew away. "FINALLY!" she said with glee. "Now's not the time to be happy rarity!" Applejack said looking at her crossly. When the 6 made it out of the castle they quickly turned to the nearest royal guard who was at his post at the entrance. "Where is princess luna!?" Twilight said panting trying to catch her breath. Without so much as breaking his firm posture he answered, "Atop the royal keep" "Ill meet you guys there!" Rainbow took off, she was able to see her from where they stood, "Come on girls, we got a princess to save!" Twilight said then ran inside, the other following. "W-wait what?" the guard broke his posture then turned to see them running down the hall. "Stop!" he shouted The guard and his partner both then began running after them, but the girls were already running as fast as they could to the royal keep that they struggled to keep up themselves. As they ran and shouted it only drew the attention of every servant and guard they passed, the guards joining in the pursuit and the servants just looking confused. The girls practically busted through the door that would lead up to the keep as they rushed to get to luna. When they finally got to her, they were short of breath and sweaty. Barely able to say a word. But luna simply stared at the sky, listening to rainbow dash as she explained what had happened. "P-P-P" Twilight choked on her breath a second. "Princess luna! Princess celestia has be-" "Kidnapped?" Luna said not even looking away. "Did rainbow tell ya?" Applejack asked, fanning herself with her hat. "Yes, i cannot believe my sister would hide him from me..and now we will all pay for that mistake." "What do you m-mean pay?.." Fluttershy said looking nervous as usual. "See for yourself." She pointed to the sun. When they walked on the balcony of the keep, all were greeted by the sight of princess celestia's glorious sun, being consumed by a wavy blackness that slowly crept up it. The very sky itself was being darkened by pitch black clouds that formed over the land. "Did he...k-kill her?" Twilight asked luna she was shaking herself. "No he did not, i knew this human as well even with a black heart he would never be able to do so. But he has removed her from equestria some how. What did he say he planned to do?" She turned around looking at twilight. "Something about bringing human warriors back and covering equestria in darkness. could he do that princess luna? A-And is he really unstoppable?" "He has begun one twilight sparkle that must answer the second, and no he is not..we must go to the crystal empire. For there is the crown of light, it is the only thing that could possibly stop him." She said,looking to the stairway as the sound of hoofsteps traveled up to them. "Princess luna! these fillies said something has happened t-" The mare was cut off before she could finish. "I am well aware of what is happening, captain we must gather the guard and move to the crystal empire at once." She said, "And that is an order," The captain nodded and turned around to her troops. "YOU HEARD HER!" she shouted, "MOVE OUT!" The guards rushed out of the stairway to gather their comrade's and prepare to move out, within only a minute of giving the order the whole castle was bustling with activity. "What is this crown of light you speak of?" Twilight asks looking confused. "Ive never heard of it," "Come, i will explain on the way." Luna began walking down the stairs in a calm manner, the others following. "The crown of light is an ancient artifact that was constructed in the third human global conflict, it was an attempt by a small group of humans to stop the very thing that had corrupted the world with his dark ways. Marcus, a child infuriated with humanity." "y'mean to tell me a KID did all that to them humans?" Applejack said as they continued down the stairs. "Indeed, You would expect a human who gains his power from fear to use that as his weapon but no, he does that strictly for his own personal entertainment. He used the weapons humanity had created against themselves." "What kind of damage could a few spears and magic do, seems rather pointless to me" Rarity commented. "Humans had grown far past primitive weapons, they had invented war machines that would tear apart anything in its path, giant bombs that could destroy ponyville with a single use, machines that could fly past the speed of sound. Human modernization led to the most successful sentient species to ever exist on this world." "If they were so successful how did one human destroy them all?" Rainbow said. "He didn't, he used his powers for only awhile. He let his human brethren take care of the rest." "Where are all of the ruins of their cities then princess luna?" twilight asked as they walked out of the stairway and down the hall. "Much of it was destroyed on what the humans called, "Armageddon" The end of the world," "Th-th-the end of the world?.." Fluttershy asked. "Yes, the most powerful of human weapons was used at once, it completely ended the war and the human race in only 45 minutes, Us ponies however with the help of our unicorn friends, and celestia and i's magic managed to survive the blast and even rid the world of the fallout." "fallout?" Twilight asked. "We do not understand much about it, but we cleared out what we could. It took hundreds of years to do so. But in the time we fought against the radiation and the harshness that we bared, celestia and i completed the crown of light and she used it to defeat him. The very crown that gave her control of the sun." "She gained control of the sun because of humans?" Twilight said in shock. "I gained control of the moon for the very same reason, using her now all powerful magic she gave me control of the moon. After we had established that we noticed ponies were very human like in their nature, greedy, rude , hateful, Discord took advantage of that and began his rule of chaos." "Then you discovered the elements of harmony right?" Rainbow said, she then quickly rose into the air to avoid a running guard. "WATCH IT WILL YA?!" "Correct, when we discovered them we introduced them to the world. They wouldn't do this again but when those elements were brought to the world, the love and harmony they spread not only encased discord in stone, but cleansed the world of the destruction that it bared. The world became fresh and reborn, as did the ponies who inhabited it" As luna finished her story she walked outside with the others to see that the sun was now completely dark, as was the sky for now a thick layer of clouds had covered it. The wind blew aggressively to the east, plants were already starting to wilt and die. He was beginning the process of Armageddon once more. The captain of the canterlot royal guard ran up to luna and saluted. "We have 2 trains ready to move out your majesty!" She said in a stern strong voice. "Very good, begin loading the guard and prepare to head for the crystal empire." "At once!" She saluted once more then ran off. "Um princess luna?" twilight said looking up at her. "Yes twilight sparkle?" "Before we go...can you have a guard go to my home and fetch spike for me?" "I will do that for you."