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// The Elements of Harmony 
// Story: The Creation of Harmony 
// by Time Ponies are cool 
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Chapter XXXVIII: The Elements of Harmony
The Master clapped his hooves together slowly. "Bravo. A very staunch effort, my friends. Really, I've got to hand it to you. I like the effort. It pains me to see such devotion come to nothing, but don't worry about me. I'm sure my absolute possession of the Earth will wash away all those sorrows." He turned and plopped himself back on his recliner. He crushed his empty can of soda, dropped it on the ground and opened another one. He put his headphones back on and listened to "Railroad to Hell."
"What went wrong?!" Rarity began to panic, "Where are the Elements?!"
"Oh my, this is bad. This is really bad," Fluttershy joined her, "What do we do? What do we do?!"
"Alright, alright! Calm down you two," Applejack said, "We'll figure something out."
The Doctor went in circles around the diamond cauldron, inspecting every inch of it. "Gah! What did we do wrong? There must be something we're missing, something staring us right in the face! Oh, what is it!?"
He turned around and looked at everyone's anxious faces. He knew what they were all thinking. Their last hope had failed and now doom was upon them. He had to keep up their spirits, for it was the only left that he could do. He was out of his wits. He did not have enough of an understanding of the Elements of Harmony to find a solution. He galloped over and paced in front of everyone. 
"Listen, everypony! Just because it hasn't worked now doesn't mean it won't at all! There's still hope. I'm nine-hundred years old and one of the things I've found is that, no matter how bad it gets, there is, surprisingly, always hope. Now, I can't promise you that I can fix this, because I don't understand this magic. Neither does Starswirl nor any king, queen, alchemist, shaman or whatever. There are, however, six ponies among us who know it better than anypony else: Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. Our hopes rest with them, and I can promise you that they won't fail us."
The dragons and Hoofricans all fixed their attentions to the six friends standing behind Starswirl. Fluttershy hid her face behind her wings as she came to be part of the center of attention. Pinkie waved as everyone's face was turned towards her. Twilight gulped as the pressure mounted on her and her friends. She glanced at the eclipse in the sky and at the Gates. She doubted that there were more than fifteen minutes left.
"Alright! Yeah, we'll be sure to save you," Dash said with no small amount of unease, "Just give us a sec to put our heads together and figure things out. Then we'll kick butt!" She grabbed her five other friends and huddled them together in a circle with her a distance away from all the others. "Okay, what do we do?"
"I reckon we ought to use our melons," Applejack said, "Like the Doc said. We know the Elements better than anypony here."
"So what's missing from the recipe for the Elements?" Pinkie asked.
"We have all the ingredients. We combined the wisdoms of the three kingdoms," Rarity said, "What more could we need?"
"Well... um... I was thinking... remember how the horseshoes needed sunlight for energy?" Fluttershy tried to contribute, "Maybe the Elements need an energy source too."
"But the dragons hit the cauldron with four mega-huge beams of fire," Dash rebutted, "If that doesn't cut it to power the Elements, then I don't know what will."
"Wait, hold on!" Twilight said as she came to a seemingly obvious realization, "Why would the Elements need to be powered by fires? Magic like that isn't powered by physical energy... No, it's not the fires. They're part of the magic, but not for power, maybe as a spark to kick it off. The Elements need a power source to sustain them, otherwise they can't come into existence."
"So what is it then?" Rarity asked.
"The Elements are powered by the very things they represent," Twilight excitedly answered.
"Generosity, Honesty, Laughter, Kindness, Loyalty and Magic!" Applejack said.
And then Pinkie added, "Friendship!"
"Yes, the power of friendship," Fluttershy quietly tried to say, "That's what I was kind of, um, trying to say-"
"Alright, girls!" Twilight interrupted as they split up from the huddle, "We don't have much time left. Let's bring on the creation of harmony!"
All six gave a quick cheer and put their hooves together in a six-way brohoof.
Everyone watched anxiously as the six mares stepped forth with confidence. The fate of the world hinged on whatever they had to say now. Though they wore no armor or jewels or clothes and bore no weapons or scrolls or magical objects, the six seemed to everyone around them like a team of unlikely little heroes, like those in foals' ponytales. 
Twilight went a few steps ahead and announced, "We have it! We know how to make the magic work!"
Anyone who didn't openly give a sigh of relief did so silently in their heads. The light of hope that had nearly faded away was flickering into greater brightness once again.
Twilight continued, "What we were lacking is friendship. We need to invoke the magic of friendship in order to power the Elements of Harmony and stop the Master, and for something as big as this, we need much more than the bond between six friends. We need the friendships of every pony, dragon and Hoofrican here."
Excited as they all were to find that there was a solution, no one quite understood what Twilight was on about. Bluehorn spoke up and asked, "And how do we go about doing that?"
"I'm glad you asked that question, Your Highness," Twilight answered, "We need all of you - and I mean all, as in every single one of you - to feel the bonds you have with all your friends, family and any other loved ones. Clear your mind of everything that doesn't have to do with your friendships."
Everyone was uneasy as they were still unclear as to what to do. Some closed their eyes and thought about their friends, but did not sense any magic or power flowing through them. Twilight noticed their puzzlement and took a more direct approach to the matter. She turned towards Ember and asked her, "Your Grace, who are you friends? Your family? Name them for me."
"Well, there was my late husband, King Haearn Adain. There are my children, Comet, Ruby, Sapphire and Amber..."
"Who else? Come on, recall your memories with them. See their faces. Say their names."
Ember reached deep into her memories and began speaking of her friendships. "My closest friend, Senator Glaswyrdd. We attended flying school together and always played mischievous tricks on the headmaster. Until I succeeded my mother and father, we hardly ever spent time apart. She also had the most magnificent long white horns. I have two brothers, Glo and Tanio. I never needed a fire-breathing teacher because of them. They loved their little sister so much. I remember them being so proud of me when I was announced the heiress, and I had expected them to be jealous. I could not ask for better siblings."
"Great!" Twilight moved on, "And you, Starswirl, who are your friends?"
Starswirl answered, "Before today, mine only friends were His Majesty, King Concordius, and my apprentice, Clover. But now, for his sacrifice, I shall call Commander Rainbow Sword my friend also."
"What was your best memory of any of them?"
"Ah, that would be the day Clover learnt his first spell. 'Twas a cold winter afternoon and merely a week since I tooketh him on as an apprentice of magic. The little colt poured himself into every book I gaveth him. For his first spell, we sat down together at a desk with a tome I hadst no use for, a book on camel cuisine. I opened the book and asked him to turn one page forth using his magic. The smile on the colt's face when he finally succeeded after five attempts brought a warmth to my heart like nothing I felt before. "
"Good, good!" Twilight said. She turned around and looked at everyone around her, encouraging them to do as they had seen Ember and Starswirl do. She continued on instructing others on how to invoke the magic of friendship. She turned to Derpy and said, "Derpy, what about you? Name your friends."
Derpy cocked her head and turned the thought around in her head for a moment. She ended up saying, "I don't know... Muffins? Other than the Doctor and muffins, I don't really have any friends."
"Oh... okay. I'm sorry to hear that." Twilight decided to move on. She awkwardly walked away from Derpy and asked somepony else.
"Pyro! What about you then? Who are your friends and loved ones?"
"Well uhh, I have my alchemy master, Majani Makali. She taught me everything I know until I started working with my sister. And I was her favorite student, even though I almost burnt down her school pretty much every other day. She was inspirational. She encouraged me to be an experimenter and always try new things. Without her, my sister and I wouldn't be where we are now. And there's my Uncle Sharp Nose. He's always the silly one in the family and he's the best collector out of all of us. Half of the ingredient in our lab were found by him. I remember one day he took me on one of his herb-collecting trips and got chased through the woods by a pack of timberwolves. Up until now, that was the most exciting day of my life."
"Alright, great!" Twilight patted his back and turned. She called out to everyone again, urging them all to bring out the feelings they have for their friends and family. "Come one, everypony! Just like what they all did! Each and every one of has to feel that bond and relish in the memories!"
Applejack then joined her, giving out her own instructions on friendship. "Remember all those little secrets y'all shared with your pals! Think about how you'd tell your friends everything and hide nothing. Picture in your head that friend you're absolutely honest to and could never lie to. The friends who you could just talk to about all your problems knowing that they'd listen and understand! Think of how the only thing you and your pals ever told each other was the truth!"
Rarity also added her words. "Remember everything you've given them and everything they've given you. Remember how there's not an ounce of selfishness among you. Think of how there's still nothing you wouldn't give or wouldn't do for them. Know how it feels to have such friends that your generosity to them knows no bounds! Most of all, think of how much of your heart and soul you've given to them, how you've given in to the bond you share."
Murmurs spread amongst everyone there. The ponies' words started to settle in their minds. They conversed with friends, reminiscing on all their good times and talking about how they treated each other with honesty and generosity. Bluehorn went to the edge of the plateau and called out to his army, giving them the instruction that the ponies were giving. Before long, the orderly Hoofrican ranks became a messy jumble of friends in light and happy conversation, like a crowd in a massive garden party. Likewise, the Drakonian Royal Guard began to focus less on the threat to the Gates and more on their friends.
Pinkie then joined in, zipping and hopping about between the many groups of friends that formed clumps of individuals. "Ooh! Think about all the fun you had with each other! Like all the games you played when you were little! And all the parties you had! And all the candy and cake and juice and fruit punch and muffins and chocolate and donuts and cupcakes and cider and jam and sandwiches and bagels and sarsaparilla and whipped cream and mayonnaise and apples and strawberries and lemons and anything and everything you ate together! Sing the songs that you love to sing together! Imagine the smile you and your friends always put on each others' faces! Think about how you love more than anything to see them smile and laugh! Hear it in your head, their laughter!"
Giggles, chuckles and laughs spread out through the crowds. Some began singing songs from their childhoods. On the next mountain over, one dragon was playing the crwth, an old Drakonian instrument, and the dragons around her clapped the beat and sang the Ballad of the Abdicator, a song about how Queen Cinder ended the tyranny of the dynasty of the Arglwydd by stepping down from power and began an era of peace for the known world. The voices of all the ponies, dragons and Hoofricans rang and echoed through the peaks, slopes, valleys and trenches of the Gwyrdd Mountains. Ember was the first to feel the full effects of the magic of her friendships. She felt a warmth in her chest as she told stories to her children about the adventures she shared with her friends in her youth. She smiled a smile wider than any smile she smiled since the day Amber was born, ninety-four years ago. A faint glow began to appear in her yellow eyes. Twilight noticed this and grinned. The plan was working.
"Think about how much your care about them," Fluttershy quietly began, flying around the plateau, but her timid voice was barely audible. So Twilight cast a spell on Fluttershy to amplify her voice. Fluttershy was startled to hear her voice suddenly become so much louder and covered her mouth. She looked to Twilight and she gestured for her to go on and speak. Mustering all her confidence, she continued, "Um, think of all the times they needed your tender loving care and how you provided it for them. And think of the times you needed the same care and they made sure you got it. Whenever you or any of your friends were sick, confused or sad, all of you put in every bit of yourself into making them feel better. Think of how you're never at all mean to each other. You were nothing but kind."
Golden Lead gave her brother a tight hug, and both her and Pyro's eyes began to glow. Bluehorn felt a warmth in his heart as he thought of his vow to his subjects and how he cared for them. Soon his eyes began to glow. The Doctor and Derpy laughed together as they recalled all the times he saved her from the villains they faced and how she saved him from the terror that was himself. Derpy thanked the Doctor for how much he cared about her, as nopony else ever did, and she nuzzled him. Sure enough, her crossed eyes glowed, as well as the Doctor's.
Rainbow Dash then flew about among the nearby mountains and the plateau, calling out to everyone below her. "Remember the promises you made to each other! Those vows you make as kids to be best friends with each other forever or the times when you give your word to stand by your friend's side! Think of your loyalty to your friends! You'd never turn your back on them for anything or anyone! You'd follow them across a burning desert if they needed you to, because you know that they'd do the same for you! Just like you always stand by them, they always stand by you, no matter what!"
Starswirl knelt down by Rainbow Sword's body and began tearing up as he recalled watching the pegasus rise up in the ranks of the Ponytopian military. He remembered how devoted Sword was to Ponytopia and its king, more devoted even than himself. He thought of his own loyalty to the King and how that loyalty meant also showing fidelity to Sword. He remembered how Sword, under the control of the Master, tried to kill him, but ultimately Sword's allegiance to goodness triumphed and, sadly, resulted in his death. He had seen no display of faithfulness greater than that. As Starswirl honored Sword's memory, his eyes began to glow.
Before long, the magic of friendship was flowing through the hearts of every single one of those on and around the plateau, and the glowing of their eyes lit up the darkness caused by the shadow of the eclipse.
Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash gathered together again, and united in a great big group hug. They smiled and laughed together, jubilant that they succeeded to invoke the magic of friendship from everyone. Their eyes glowed the brightest of all.
Then, suddenly, there came a loud noise, like a mix between a clap of thunder, a clang of metal and a boulder crashing onto the ground. The source of this noise was the Gates. The black ooze had now completely filled the pattern carved into the metal wall, a sight to fear for every living soul. The blackened pattern then burst into white light whose rays streaked across the plateau and illuminated the slope of the mountain across from the metal wall.
The Master stood and got into the TARDIS to move it away from the path of the light. He then got out and moved his chair and stereo system as well. He watched as the white light spread across the metal wall. The only thing left in the path of the light was the diamond cauldron. On the slope where the light struck, it burned through the jade, emerald and rock.
Despite all this happening, everyone around stood completely still in the last position they were in before the magic they were invoking clicked, be it sitting, lying, dancing, rolling on the floor laughing or in a big group hug. There was only one change. Their faces all were fixed on the diamond cauldron and their faces locked on a peaceful smile. Their eyes glowed brighter and brighter, creating a medley of colorful lights with all the diversity of the world's eye colors. Even Twilight and her friends stood as they were, right in the path of the Gates' light, and they were unharmed by its burning intensity. Twilight's eyes glowed violet. Applejack's glowed green. Rarity's glowed azure. Pinkie's glowed cerulean. Fluttershy's glowed cyan. And Rainbow Dash's glowed cerise.
When the white light completely enveloped the great metal wall, the Master took refuge inside the TARDIS, and for good reason. The light grew more intense and then gave a great flash, sending out a wave that burned off the top halves of all the mountains in a ten mile radius. The resulting plateaus were all evenly leveled with the plateau of Mount Dechrau. The dragons that stood on the burned off mountains fell down onto what remained of them, completely unharmed and still fixed on the cauldron. The Master peeked out from behind the TARDIS doors and saw that the metal wall was gone, reveal the total pitch black darkness that was on the other side. He succeeded. The Master opened the Gates of Tartarus.
He laughed and galloped out of the TARDIS. He stood before the darkness and tapped a rhythm of four with his hooves. He began to sweat out of excitement and smiled from ear to ear. He stared into the darkness and said, "Come to me... Come to me my hordes, my army. I have freed you from your eternal prison and you are now mine! Hahahaha!"
Under his hooves he felt the earth begin to rumble, as millions of hoofsteps galloped towards him from the depths of Tartarus. A constant drone came forth, as millions of wings flapped in the air. The foul stench of rotten flesh drifted out, as the hordes of millions had been kept in Tartarus to decay for over eight-thousand years without death to relieve them.
The Master thought it was time to gloat. He remained facing the darkness as he spoke. "Well, well, Doctor. You may be able to stop swarms of cyber-changelings, the Daemon Azal, the deception of a Kamelion, the Rani, armies of Autons, the Dalek Empire, even Gallifrey itself and all the Time Lords. But this, Doctor, this is beyond you! You may be clever enough to stop anything in all space and time, but even you can't handle this! The hordes of Tartarus existed before this age, beyond the reach of any TARDIS and certainly beyond your own reach..."
The Master breathed in and smelled the odor of the hordes as they made their way to freedom. He turned as he continued speaking. "Forces like these can be stopped only by the most powerful of magic, and frankly, Doctor, you're rather helpless when it comes to ma.... magi... Oh..."
His victorious grin slowly drooped into a jaw-dropped frown as the Master watched the diamond cauldron glowing with lights of every color in the eyes of everyone gathered around the plateau. The soup of black ink inside was the source of the radiance. He looked around at their serene faces and fear the sight of their smiles and their bright eyes. Every pony, dragon and Hoofrican looked like statue sentinels guarding the entrance into Tartarus with eyes glowing with the brightness of stars. The diamond of which the cauldron was made scattered the lights, making a kaleidoscope of colors across the jade floor. Amidst the scattered spectrum was a pattern of pink and blue that was in the image of the Sun overlapping with the full Moon and surrounded by a ring of stars. The Sun was pink while the Moon and stars were blue.
The Master took one step back and then another as the diamond cauldron quaked and quivered with tremendous force, making the earth rumble even more than the hordes of Tartarus did. "No... No, no, no, no!" After several more steps back, the Master felt a sudden cold in his left rear hoof. He jumped away from the cold and realized that he backed up all the way to the edge of the darkness. He was cornered. He had nowhere to go. Driven to desperation, he turned around and faced the darkness. He shouted into it, "Hurry up, you damned bloody monsters! You bunch of rotten corpses! You spawn of demons! And you too Lwsyffar! Come out and destroy this world! If I can't have it, then you can burn it! Turn the Earth into ashes! I freed you and you are bound to obey your liberator! Come out!"
The Master was answered by a vicious hiss. In the darkness, a single eye opened, and out came the bearer of that eye, a pony from the Third Age. It was a hideous thing, even if the majority of its body had not rotten away. Its head was of an odd, box-like shape and its eyes were horribly deformed. It was shorter than most ponies of the Fourth Age and had thicker legs, but its body was dried and emaciated. This particular Third Age pony had half its face rotten away. Its left cheek was completely gone, revealing the teeth and jaw bone underneath. The rest of the left half was bare black flesh and the eye socket was empty. Its mane was gone and at certain spots of the head, the skull was exposed. Its front right leg was reduced to nothing but bone, while the other legs were without skin. The Master tried not to cringe at the sight, but to no avail.
The pony gave a nod to the Master and turned its head completely around to look behind. It opened its mouth and let out a frightening shriek. Then it galloped off, past the Master. Shortly afterwards, the hordes came out. Countless deformed and rotten ponies poured out of the darkness and galloped across the plateau and down the slopes of Mount Dechrau. In the air, more of the monstrous ponies flew out into the sky with their decayed butterfly wings. Despite all their numbers, none of the creatures took a moment to even look at the ponies, dragons and Hoofricans around them, as they were all being protected by the magic that was coming into being. 
When the trembling of the diamond cauldron reached its most violent, it suddenly stopped. Then the cauldron rose up straight into the sky, amidst the swarms that blotted out the eclipse. Everyone's glowing eyes remained fixed on it as it rose higher and higher. Eventually, the cauldron disappeared into the swarm, but everyone continued to follow it regardless. When it stopped, so did they. For several seconds, everyone was completely still, staring into the sky. And then, in grand brilliance and astonishing beauty, the diamond cauldron exploded into a massive sonic rainboom. The rainboom was so bright and loud that its radiance briefly lit up a fifth of the Earth's surface and every living thing with ears in that area of the Earth heard its boom. Even the deaf heard it, for the magic carried by the sound restored their hearing, thus making the boom the first noise to pass through their ears. The force of the explosion blew away all the flying ponies around it, knocking them out of the sky and sending them back down to the ground. The sonic rainboom reached a radius of twenty miles before it faded away. 
For a moment, the sky was clear of Tartarus' hordes and six objects gently floated down. Everyone's eyes followed these six objects as they gracefully descended and latched onto Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity. Five of the six were golden collars with a hexagonal jewel as the centerpiece. Applejack's was the orange jewel, forged out of the Rings of Lux and Nox. Fluttershy's was the pink jewel, forged out of the Spirit Flower of Princess Sidera. Pinkie's was the blue jewel, forged out of the Fang of the White Dragon. Rainbow Dash's was the red jewel, forged out of the Piece of a White Dwarf Star. Rarity's was the purple jewel, forged out of the Seed of the Tree of Light. The sixth was a crown, adorned by a magenta jewel, forged from the Ink of the Pen of Queen Faust. This one belonged to Twilight.
The glow faded away from everyone's eyes as the work of their magic was done. Once it was gone, they came into the attention of the hordes, and the living corpses attacked them. The guards and soldiers were quick to react and fought against the onslaught. The dragons slashed with their claws and breathed burning and freezing fires. Those who could escape from the piles of earth ponies took to the skies to face the winged ones. The Hoofricans returned into formations and did all they could to keep the hordes at bay, but all they managed was to create piles of rotten ponies that buried their front-most ranks. They fired ballistae, multi-bolt crossbows and mangonels. Havoc engulfed the mountains and everyone fought for their lives. The dragons and Hoofricans had some success in fending off the enemy, but many slipped past them. Thousands more already had in the moments before the Elements were created.
Twilight and her friends, however, remained safe. As the six were protected by the Elements, none of the corpses dared to go near them. Starswirl busied himself using his magic in combat. His mouth dry from constantly shouting out incantations to blast away the ponies around him. The Doctor and Derpy stayed with Starswirl, watching his back and bucking anypony that went near them. When Starswirl grew too tired, he cast a spell to create a shield to protect him, the Doctor and Derpy.
Corpses rained down on the Gwyrdd Mountains as Twilight, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie strode together across the plateau and towards the Master. He too walked towards them. They then stopped and faced each other.
"You should never underestimate the power of friendship, Master," Twilight said with righteous anger in her voice.
"You can't beat me, my little pony," the Master maliciously replied. He knew he could not gallop away nor fly to escape the six ponies' magic. He needed some other means. His eyes then darted to his right, towards the TARDIS. As quick as he could, he lit up his horn and tried to teleport into the TARDIS. But as the white glow was halfway surging up his horn, it stopped. The six were using the Elements to block the Master's magic. The glow drained back down the horn, and then the six's eyes flashed. In an instant, the Master's horn cracked and shattered.
Shocked by this display of power, the Master backed away slowly, stumbling at every other step as he tripped over corpses. He watched as the six opened a hole through his shield and walked through, forcing him further and further back. He looked in fear at their faces as they each spoke.
"You can't win," Rainbow Dash said.
"You have no power against us," Applejack then said.
Rarity said, "You are defeated."
Then Pinkie. "You know what happens now."
Lastly Fluttershy. "It's over."
The jewels they wore jingled. The eyes of all six ponies lit up in white brilliance and their hooves left the ground. Slowly, they floated into the air as they looked down on the Master.
The Master looked behind to see other monsters coming out of Tartarus: the incarnations of the constellations. First came Cancer, the giant crab. Then Hydra, the many-headed lizard. Then giant bear, Ursa Minor, and his even more giant mother, Ursa Major. Then Draco, the serpentine dragon. And last was Cetus, the monster whale, who swam in the air. Sensing that their liberator was in danger, Draco and Cancer tried to protect him. Draco coiled around the Master and bared his fangs. Cancer crawled over Draco and covered him and the Master with her massive claws. The Master though knew that it was all for naught.
"You may have stopped me, but you still haven't beaten me!," he said, "Imprison me in ice if you like! Banish me to the Moon if you fancy that! Turn me into stone! Why not?"
Applejack's element lit up and shot a beam of orange light that struck Cancer's claw, making the crab cry out in pain. 
"You can bury me in the farthest depths of Tartarus and you still will not have beaten me!" the Master continued.
Rainbow Dash's element released red beam that struck Cancer's thorax and Rarity's element let out a purple beam that struck the other claw. Unable to bear the agony, the crab lifted away her claws and fled.
"There's someone even worse than me coming! My own little creation!"
Fluttershy's elements struck the back of Draco's throat with a beam of pink, and then Pinkie's elements struck Draco's eye with a beam of blue. Before long, Draco too slithered away, helpless against the power of the Elements.
"He's far more powerful and insane and wicked than I could ever be!"
Twilight's element then lit up and unleashed a magenta beam that struck the Master's chest. The other beams moved and focused on the spot where Twilight's beam hit. The Master winced and grunted in pain. But then his voice moved on to an insane laughter. He cackled as the beams grew brighter and brighter, bring him more and more pain. 
"HAHAHAHA! You'll need your all to defeat this one!"
Finally, from all six Elements, a rainbow burst forth with incredible force and brilliance. It threw the Master off his hooves and sent him flying into the darkness of Tartarus. His laugh echoed through the black and slowly faded away until silence fell.
Gracefully, the six descended and gently landed onto the ground. The glow from their eyes vanished. They each looked at each other, panting and exhausted from using the Elements with all its new, fresh and raw power. They then smiled and embraced each other.
"We did it!" Twilight said, "We beat him. It's finally over."
Their joy was short lived. Suddenly, the earth shook under the footsteps of an enormous monster. There came a roar greater than any roar any living thing had heard in over two-thousand years. It struck fear into every heart that heard it. Even the hordes of corpses were terrified. They gave up their fighting and fled as fast as they could from Mount Dechrau, yelping and shrieking all the way. Some dragons and Hoofricans pursued the ponies, trying to take down as many as they could. Some others knew what was coming and took the opportunity to escape with their lives. Those with the courage to stay looked to the source of the roar. They saw the Gates of Tartarus still open. And in the darkness they saw a pair of massive and malevolent green eyes, and with them appeared a wide grin of vicious fangs.
Lwsyffar, the Arglwydd, had risen.