//------------------------------// // Return to Earth part 1 // Story: Brothers until the end // by Spiritus //------------------------------// You are all going to hate me for this chapter, not saying why, but you'll soon see. This story is a little bit darker now if I remember correctly. Wrote this a while ago catching up on schoolwork so just in-case I can't couldn't do anything I have the next chapter ready to go but just writing the new chapter now. Anyway enjoy DAY 4 My bloodshot eyes slowly open and quickly close because extremely bright light reflecting off every surface with a random beep coming from my right every few seconds. Trying once again to open my eyes I felt a sudden rush of pain, my chest felt like it was on fire with a slowly increasing pain as I started to breathe heavily, but when my right hand moved over to touch it, it was ice-cold. Then I attempted to move my right arm over to my left, because it had become itchy, unfortunately my itch would going on for another few minutes as I started to scratch at a hard plastic cast covering my arm and completely immobile. I look around the unfamiliar room, which seemed like a hospital room. The room was a marble white with around another nine to eleven beds in the room with a chair to each side of every bed. To my right was an empty chair, but to my left the chair was occupied by the only I know I can trust in this new world. He was just sitting there with his eyes closed and earphone on. He must not have had been listened to anything because he opened his eyes when he heard me move around in the bed. "Thank god" He said as he removed his earphones and stretched out his legs and arms "I've been sitting there since you blacked out". "How long has that been?" I asked not knowing how long I was out for. "Twelve and a half hours. I haven't left your bedside since that bitch shot you with magic, she's lucky I got pulled off her otherwise I would have killed her" He angrily spat out remembering himself and me what she did to me. "Look, leave it I slag you, you slag me back and sometimes one of us get hurt. The same thing happened with us ginger" I said kind of defending her but still annoyed at her. "Look at yourself, from what the doctor said you're lucky to be alive, a double fractured arm and you lost almost a fifth of your blood from your arm that still has some glass that needs to be removed, I have no idea why you are trying to protect her because I know you would have acted out worse than me, but if you really want me to let it slide, you really are retarded" He said convincing me after the first few words that it would take time before she gets a second chance. "Can you get the nurse I need to know, if anything else is wrong with me?" I asked needing to see everything wrong with me at the minute. "Yeah sure, the others want to see you as well will I let them in as well?" He questioned wanting to know if I was ready to let them see me after the incident that happened last night. "Yeah, let everyone in" I told him while nodding to him and awaiting the full diagnostic from the doctor. Dara just glared at me and said aloud "It's your funeral" to himself and letting everyone in. The six girls, Spike and Celestia where the first to great me and followed by a new pony that had a white coat with a pink mane dressed in a bun with a nurse's hat with her cutie-mark on it. Speaking of that her mark was a red medical cross with small pink hearts in each corner. She had sapphire blue eyes with a small hint of worry in them eyes as she approached, In fact as they approached they all looked worried. My knowledge of why would be revealed soon. "So, what's wrong with me?" I asked to the newest pony, whom I assumed was a nurse from her cutie-mark. "You have a double fractured arm, torn triceps with glass still in your muscle, you had to receive ten stitches to the back of your cranium and I would also like to reveal something that has been troubling my co-workers and I about something in your body" She replied in a serious and increasingly worried voice. "Yeah sure, can you girls give us a minute?" I ask the six of them, but not towards Celestia, I thought that maybe she might know something herself about what was wrong. "Come on girls, let's give them some time on their own, we will be outside if you need us" Twilight informed us as she left and thankfully gave me an extra few minutes of space. "So what's the thing troubling you?" I questioned as the door locked behind them. "When we were performing a full body x-ray, we found a lump on the end of your lungs, we aren't sure if it is normal in humans or not. "Well, I do have asthma, but to answer your question now it's not normal, just tell me that it's not cancer" I hopefully asked scared shitless if it was or not cancer. The answer to my question was revealed when she just looked to the ground for a few seconds before answering me, "It can be removed since we caught it early and we can do it safely without harming you. One other thing when we were trying to take a blood sample, your blood was unusual, it was darker and we think that the sheer power of the magic beam may have hit your heat and slowed down the rate". "So how long until the cancer can be removed?" I asked, unsure if I could take a few weeks of chemotherapy sessions. "We can start on Tuesday when our head surgeon is back from his vacation" She informed "One last thing about your heart, it seems that it is not being able to move the blood around as it should, it isn't pushing as much so it should so you may feel weak at times and your heart may collapse under the pressure". "So how long till it does and I die?" I asked gaining Celestia and Dara's undivided attention as I said the last word. "If it does you have until the end of the month" she shyly answer not daring to look at me since the last sentence. "Well that's handy, I find out that I have cancer, but before I can die from that my heart will collapse on its self, this is the best day of my life" I said sounding over sarcastically happy about the whole day so far. Dara reacts by coming over to me and try to comfort me saying some shit I don't pay attention to like "It will be okay" and "You can get through it". I had to take a minute to process this information on my own and Dara sure as hell wasn't help, so I asked "Can you all give me a minute, please?" Thankfully they all left without saying a word and left me to my thoughts, well until the door was closed over, because that's when the shit it the fan. I was overcome by anger, worry, rage, sadness and hatred. It fuelled my body to the point of it exploding. It gave me the strength to lift my body out of bed and throw the chair on my right across the whole room and shattering it as it made contact with the wall. I yelled out at the top of my lungs as I fell to my knees with my eyes closed, until I felt something on my shoulder. It wasn't a hand but a black hoof. Said hoof belonged to a pony I didn't expect to be seen for quite a while. I open my eyes and turn to face Nightmare Moon and Sombra, both evilly smiling at me like a plan was about to be executed faster than anticipated. She helped me up and place me back into the bed I was temperately staying in. "Now isn't that better" Nightmare told me as her magic lifts the cover up to me. "What do you want from me? No lies the truth" I told her not wasting a minute to get to the bottom of this. "Well it looks like we may be able to form an alliance" She honestly answered. "What do you mean?" I ask unsure of where this was heading. "You help us regain power and we in turn make you the most powerful creature know to both our kinds" She informed me and raising my interest slightly. "How can I help you regain power?" I question trying to understand if I came off better or worse in this situation. "I can regain my power from nightmares' ponies have, but unfortunally Sombra here can't. He needs a body to absorb negative energy from and ever since you arrived here, you have tripled the whole population of Equestria in just the last two days" She told me, but I still had no clue where this was going still. "Your point is?" I ask still unsure, why they couldn't have just said this the first time we meet. "My point is you allow Sombra into your mind so he can regain his strength and he will in turn teach you the strongest magic known to pony: Dark Magic" She finally told me the reason why he was interested in me. Halle-fucking-lujah. "Deal. We start tonight then" I told her shocking her with how quick I agreed with what she wanted, she probably thought that she would have to force me to agree to this. "Ok then this is going to hurt a little" Sombra said while evilly laughing as he walked up to me and put his unusual horn against my head as it lit up in a black aura engulfed in a vivid violet haze with green edges. He sure wasn't joking about it hurting, it was basically an ordinary headache but with the pain kicking a tree as hard as you can with a broken foot instead. I shut my eyes and had to clinch my fists from the pain shear pain rushing through my head which went after twenty seconds but still hurt as hell. When I opened my eyes everyone was back looking at me like I had just slit my throat or something. Turns out that my eyes where completely blood-shot and the monitor beside me was completely frantic. They assumed the monitor was broken all of a sudden. "What" I asked trying to get their attention. "That's impossible the monitor says that your vitals are back to normal and the cast isn't on your arm. What did you do when we were gone?" The nurse questioned triple checking the machine. "Let's see, I went on a vacation to America, killed a homeless guy, robbed a bank and won in a game of Russian Roulette" I sarcastically answered, thinking it was funny until I got slapped in the back of the head and the headache came back, "What the fuck was that for?". "That's for not inviting me to the game, I always win" Dara joked but got the attention of everyone else in the room. "What is 'Russian Roulette'? And I bet you I can beat you're in a game of it" Rainbow challenged. Once again Challenge accepted. "It's a game of pure luck and chance, where you put a bullet into a six round revolver, spin it and pull the trigger. You win you stay alive, you lose your dead" I informed them before continuing "So who has the gun? I'll go first" "On second thought, count me out" Rainbow said denying my challenge, well in a world of peace and harmony I doubt there would be a gun here, but still it's fun to play with them. "That's one down, seven to go" I said directing my gaze to Rarity to see if she was in or not. "I'm out to dear, I wouldn't want to see such a thing either" Rarity told me. So onto the others. "I'm ou' too partner" Applejack said. "Uhm, I don't, uhm, want to either" Fluttershy replied while hiding partly behind her mane and partially behind Applejack and Twilight. "No thanks, I think I'm good for the minute" Twilight answered. "I know I love games and everything but not this one" Pinkie informed us. "You're on man, get the gun and me vs. you" Dara told me getting a gasp from the ponies who all said no. Now here came the surprising one. "I shall part take in your game. It sounds like fun" The pony Dara considered a bitch for putting me in the hospital, answered from at the balcony she had been hiding on to make sure that she didn't kill me, yet. "Luna, I must insist you leave know you have caused enough trouble already" Celestia ordered while holding out her left-wing stopping Dara from rushing over and killing her sister. "After this game" Luna told her sister not really caring what happens to her, she just wanted to apologize for what she done. "Allow her" I instructed gaining either a gasp or a 'what' from everyone in the room except for Luna as she just kept her eyes on me before I gave them my reason "If a someone has the balls to accept a game of life or death and can put me in hospital they have my respect." "To bad your respect can't be fully earned, because we don't have a revolver dipshit" Dara informed us disappointing me and Luna for different reasons while everyone else breathed a sigh of relief. "Too bad, I was really looking forward to having some fun in this place" I disappointed replied. Seriously there is nothing to do here. "Can you give me a minute with Alex, please" Luna asked but mainly towards Dara for he now hated her. "In hell you can" Dara answered her standing up and started to walk towards her, most likely to rant about some shit why she can't or something like that. I quickly get out of the bed and block him from doing what he planned in his mind. "Of course you can, now everyone the door is to your right please exit in a single filled line" I joked making Dara more pissed at me for letting her actually speak with me, but I had a plan and I had remembered something said to me yesterday. Thankfully the girls left with only me pushing Dara back, Luna and Celestia in the room. "I'm not leaving you on your own with her in the same room on your own" Dara said and finally backed up a little. "You don't have too" I informed him then turned to Celestia and asked "If it is ok with you Celestia, can you stay and look over what happens so I don't get hit in the chest again?". "It would be my pleasure" Celestia answered giving Dara some trust in the situation that was about to happen. "Five minutes, not a second more" Dara said and walked over to the door and shut it behind him, leaving us to speak about what I had been planning. I run over to the door lock it and ask them "Is there any chance that one of you can put up a sound barrier or something along those lines?". Celestia nodded and her horn began to glow its golden aura and produced a golden pulse covering the entire room. "Thank you Celestia, so what is it you want to speak to me about and please hurry we don't got much time left" I informed them, mainly Luna. "I came to say that I'm sorry, I over reacted" Luna said but she was just saying the cliché stuff. "Exactly what I thought you were going to say, 'I'm sorry' 'it's my fault' 'I over reacted'. Have you got anything to say that isn't a typical cliché to say to me or did I just waste my time?" I questioned thinking that this was a stupid idea to start with. "It's not a waste of your time, but yes what you said is true. I'm using what I used on sister whenever she is mad at me but there is another reason why I over reacted" She told me, slightly gaining my attention. "And that is?" I asked trying to find out what it was. "Well, I kind of...have grown...fond of you. I was starting to feel for you, but when you called me that name, I thought you were ashamed of me and you slightly broke my heart" Luna embarrass answered with a small blush on her cheeks when she started the sentence. "Well that explains a lot" I replied. Shock, hurt, miserable, astonished where few emotions I felt as she began to cry. I can literally not explain how terrible I felt right now for hurting her, from being the one who was actually hurt although recovering extremely fast. Maybe Sombra or Nightmare Moon healed me before the rest gathered around me. "I really am sorry for hurting you, I never meant to put you in the hospital, I just wanted to slightly hurt you but my emotions took over" She exclaimed while crying silently to herself. I, doing the gentleman thing, walked over to her, lifted her head up to look in my eyes as I wiped away the remaining tears that when on her fur and silently told her, "It's okay, I forgive you, Dara on the other hand my take a little longer, but eventually he will forgive you too". Then came the most unexpected thing I could have happened at this minute. Luna, using her wing to wrap around my body, hugged me as she cried aloud into my chest. I was to shocked at that minute to react, I haven't been hugged lovingly since my ex, but after realising what was going on around me, I rubbed her back and neck with my left hand, which somehow no longer had a cast on it, and held her head against my chest with my right and whispering "Shhhhh" into her ears to eventually calm down. I believe it worked because she was no longer crying but instead nuzzling my chest. Well that escalated quickly, but I didn't really care she had a promise to keep and I plan on getting it in the best way possible at the minute. "Well now that your done crying any chance you can keep our promise and we will be even?" I questioned, drawing Celestia's attention while waiting for Luna's answer. "Sure just give me a minute to gather a few item's" She answered and quickly left through the balcony before instructing me "Wait for me in the observatory, I will be there in fifteen minutes". "Okay see you there" I told her before getting stared at by confused and worried Celestia. "What promise would that be?" Celestia asked with a raised. "Oh Luna promised to take me back to my world to pay my final respects and to get a few thing like clothes and food that isn't vegetarian" I informed her while starting to walk away to prepare for the trip ahead of us. I opened the door to walk out but instead had the door burst open and my reaction somehow caught the door that was about to hit me in the face, with a familiar pissed off voice yelling "Times up". "Great timing, now I need some rest so nobody disturb me please" I instructed while putting some emphasise into nobody while looking straight at Dara. I walked past him, and unlike how they were opened, genially closed them behind me to hear Dara ask Celestia, "What happen in here?" and for a puzzled sounding Celestia reply being "Long story short Alex forgave Luna. I think". Hearing that I happily made my way down the corridors towards my room. Once inside my room there was a really unusual sight. A mare licking her lips and giving me a lustful stare. She was half under the covers and sort of revealing while in a uniform like the nurse from earlier. It wasn't that hard to copy though. She was an Earth pony with a crimson coat and a sky blue mane. Along with her green eyes she was wearing a dark green lipstick. "I've been waiting for you" She informed me in a very attempting to sound sexual voice. "Well you'll have to wait longer, I'm going away somewhere now, just need to grab these" I told her, while grabbing my beats and Ipod, which somehow doesn't even look like it has lost a percentage of its battery life. 'Fuck I used up one of my belongings on a charger for a unlimited charged Ipod. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, I'm going to meet up with Luna" I thought to myself while walking to the door. "Of course the door is locked all of a sudden with a green glow around it. Wait a minute, there's only me and this Earth mare in the room how could there be a green glow'. To my disbelieve there was now a green circle of flames around the mare that is no longer in my bed. Once the flames died down there was a complete and other different type of pony. Instead she was a mix between an alicorn and a bug. The pony-like creature had a teal mane and tail and black skin without fur, a bluish green object I can only describe as one of them weight loss belts, her legs, mane and tail are full of holes with very slender limbs and torso like she has been starving for a month. Unlike most ponies, she had no cutie mark. She had a twisted corn with a small black crown at the back of her head, she also had a pair of tattered insecticide wings. Her wings, full of holes like her other parts of her body, but end in sharp points rather than curves. She gave me a grin revealing her fanged teeth before she spoke in a distorted voice like a mix between two but of on their timings "I sense an unusually large power eroding your soul and I plan on not leaving without your power". "Yeah right bitch, I have no clue who the fuck you are, but I know one thing you're leaving without it" I informed her and turned to put my hand on the door handle, which was still engulfed in a dark green aura. "Do you have any idea of who you are speaking to?" She questioned. I not really giving two shits answered with "A prostitute? A slut? No sorry a whore". The same green flame that was around her a minute or so ago returned, but this time going to her chest level instead to imply fear in me as she yelled at me "I'm Queen Chrysalis, queen of the changelings and a being that can rival Celestia" "Yeah and I'm Slim Shady. What the fuck do you want?" I asked while trying to get comfortable by leaning against the door. "I want your love to feed my children and I want your power for myself" She informed me while walking up to me and putting one of her holed hooves on my arm. "Don't touch me" I instructed. She never moved an inch away from me, instead she put another holed hoof on my other arm and pinned me to the door. Then lifted her arms up to my neck as she pulled me down and forced me to hiss her. I went wide eyed when I realised what was happening. She had pulled me all the way to the ground with her on top of me holding down my arms with her front hooves. She had tried to make the kissing to be passionate and last as long as possible. She was doing well until I felt an adrenaline rush happen and I managed to throw this slut across the room. The next thing I know my eyes felt hotter, as a gas like fire emerged when I opened my eyes. I tried to think about why this happened until I spoke, but the weird thing was I had no clue what to say until I realised what happened earlier and now recognise the voice omitting from my mouth in a demon yell "CHYSALIS, STOP THIS NOW BEFORE I HAVE TO STOP YOU MYSELF" When she realised that voice was not mine she began to think before knowing exactly who it was. I could tell she knew as she now knelt in front of me, stuttering like a mad bitch "S-Sorry K-King S-Sombra, I-I-I had no I-idea that you had already commenced your plans, I-I was just hoping to get a piece of him b-before you had started". "You stupid bitch Luna has started to grow fall for him and because of this little stunt here, I had to put up a sound barrier while low on magic to make sure no one knows about your presence since Luna likes him she will kill any mare that tries anything with him, even Celestia" Sombra angrily spat. "S-Sombra please, I-I'm running low" Chrysalis whimpered, looking up so to plead her case. "Fine then you can have a little bit of our blood" Sombra said and using one of my hands, he cut the palm of the other and held it out for her to suck away the blood that oozed from my hand. She immediately became excited and rushed over to my body, which at this minute I had no control over. She looked at the fresh-cut, licked her lips then started to suck on the pouring blood. This must have been her ecstasy because as she sucked the blood, she began to shiver not out of coldness but out of enjoyment. She had now half lidded eyes and looking up to the heavens as well. She looked like she was having the time of her life, well until Sombra stopped it. "That should be enough until the final stages of the plan commence" Sombra told her. She looked up to him in pleasure, well I hope it was to him. "Yes this will keep our energy high until the battle" She said to him and directed the next towards me "Your blood is intoxicating, the anger is almost as rich as the love we prefer to feast on, but soon we will have that love". "Leave us now, Luna is on her way to get us. I don't want to see you until Nightmare Moon tells you when to strike, but I will warn you and your children. When the war starts I cannot guarantee that he will be fighting for us." Sombra said and pointed for her to take leave. She did so and literally five seconds later I was back in control as the door fell off its hinges from black and gold aura glows. "What happened here? I sensed a large energy source come from her" Celestia asked after looking around the room multiple times with her eyes. While Celestia did this Luna tackled me to the ground and looked me up and down to see if I was hurt or injured. "Are you ok? What happened? Are you hurt?" She interrogated. 'Lie for me say something to lead them away from my tracks" Sombra said inside my head. "The only thing that is hurting me is that you are crushing my pelvis" I told her and tried to help her of me by pushing her. "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to...what happened to your hand?" She asked now looking at the dry blood and cut on my left hand. 'Sombra any help here' I asked him and already felt pins and needles in my palm so I decided on doing the smart thing by putting both hands behind my back and fix my attire to draw attention away from my hands while I was being healed. Once I no longer felt anything in my hand so I responded with while revealing my hands "I don't know what you mean. Oh the dirt yeah I kind of took a detour before getting back here". "How did you heal so fast?" Luna asked noticing there was no cut and the blood now looked like dirt. 'You better follow my lead or we are both fucked' I notified Sombra in my head. "Oh when I got hit by your spell some of the magic leaked into my blood stream and it's reacting on its own, that's probably why you felt a rush of magic" I told her and put out my hand and was about to click my fingers to see if anything would happen. 'Please make a flame appear in my hand then make it increase dramatically when I get cocky' I pleaded with Sombra hoping he knew where this was going. And thankfully he did listen to me. As I snapped my fingers a small, black flame appeared in the centre of my palm. Luna and Celestia were amazed at the fact that I could perform magic. They looked at it and Luna even put her hoof over it to feel the heat that emits from fire. She looked straight at her sister how knew herself what was actually happening. But that didn't happen. Instead of retracting her hoof from heat, she retracted it from the coldness that was coming from the small black flame. I could feel the ice-cold flame as well, but I was use to the cold. (Come on I live in Ireland for fuck sake, the Antarctic has nothing against our weather.) "Cool right, now watch this" I told them and blew into the black flame for it to grow in height tenfold the longer I blew. But like I asked Sombra, the flame was dramatically growing and becoming unstable. "Shit, shit, shit" I said as the flame increased until touching the roof and spread across the room covering it in a black blaze. Thankfully Celestia and Luna where able to slowly reduce it when they noticed I lost control. The bad thing now happened when they realised that was no ordinary spell. "How did you do that?" Celestia asked amazed and shocked at what I had just done in front of them. "I told you the magic leaked into my blood steam and now I know magic" I answered her now slightly nervous if they realised the truth. "That does not explain how you are able to perform dark magic" Luna angry asked walking forward towards me as I back away, she would not let this go. I could see it in her eyes. "Well you have either three options; 1 the truth, 2 a lie or 3 I will do something that will scare you. Your choice" I informed them allowing them to pick what happens. "The truth" They simultaneously said. "I was hoping you wouldn't pick that one because now I have to show you" I said to them, then walked away from them with my back turned. 'Time to shine Sombra' I told him and turned around. Thankfully he knew what I was thinking almost like he was reading my mind, because when I turned around I felt that same tingling sensation followed by heat from my eyes, but this time I was quite relaxing. The girls gasped as the waving flame appear from my eyes, shock and disbelieve over taking them. Celestia was too stunned to react, but Luna decided to take matters into her own hooves. Her horn started to glow as tears formed in her eyes. She shot the same magic blast from yesterday straight at me, but a lot more powerful and faster. I didn't think I could avoid the blast so I put my hands up to block most of the energy. Although that was not needed because my hands started radiating black and a small shield materialised in front of me. This was a huge surprise to me as I thought that I was a goner from the blast instead it was deflected to my left and made contact with the wall. The girls couldn't believe the magical energy coming from my body, and to be honest neither could I, but this was not the real reason why they now looked terrified. That was taken up by the pony now beside me and no longer in my head. "Morning Princesses" Sombra mockingly bowed in front of them and continued "So how is my precious Crystal Empire doing without its rightful ruler?". "You monster, how could you do this to him?" Luna asked with tears now forming in her eyes. "Well, I think I can explain that one" I answered, while walking in front of Sombra to make sure nothing happens with a friendly smile to attempt to calm them down. "Go on my friend" Sombra answered for them as they looked upset and disappointed. "Well, I made a deal with Sombra that after I got hit by your beam that if he healed my heart and removed my cancer, along with teaching me something that I doubt either of you know. In return I let him feed off my energy output with him in my body to allow him return to full strength" I said in one long breath and panted twice before recover my breathing. "And what is it that we can't teach you?" Celestia cheeky asked. "Magic" I simply answered with. "We could teach you and Dara magic" Celestia informed, but soon would realise how wrong she was. "Not that pathetic friendship sort of magic, no real magic, dark magic" Sombra told her and started powering up his horn for some reason. "Alex, trust me when I say this, the darkness will corrupt your mind more than Sombra could ever possibly attempt to, I know" Luna said while cautiously walking towards me. "And you trust me when I say this, you made a promise to me and I want that to happen now otherwise my ally here, is going to gain more energy and may get the opportunity to use it too" I cold heartily replied with. "It's already affecting you" Luna said but completely wrong. "No it hasn't because I haven't learned anything at all, I'm just pissed and being human. It's a shame really, having a human as the chosen one when all we do is start wars for selfish needs" I corrected her while walking to her and speak while towering over her. "Alex, this is not you, this is" Luna attempted to speak but interrupted by me. "Oh this isn't me is it? How the fuck do you know what I'm like you have only known me since two nights ago, how do you know anything about me?" I questioned and was waiting for a reply of some bull shit. But no it was actually not bull shit, it was honesty "I know more than you think I do, for instance you were born in a place called Dublin and lived there until you were three years old. Your mother and father moved to Clonmel with your unborn sister. You went to a three storey school named St. David's. You were intelligent and excelled in your learning. Your favourite three subjects were Irish, Maths and Spanish. You were very athletic and attempted every sport in your school making the school football team since you were eight. You preferred to play in goal but mainly played in the midfield. You concentrated on your football more than your studies and were out every night practicing and one of them nights you met Dara" She told me all she could before stopping to look at me. Seeing the surprise and where this was leading she quickly changed from upset to happiness, "You two emidiagetly became friends and practiced in a little field with two trees as posts every night no matter what the weather. On your tenth birthday your father brought you to a large stadium named 'Old Trafford' to see your favourite team play against their local rivals. While you were over there your father managed to pull a few strings and met the whole team. You got a signed No.7 jersey from Cristiano Ronaldo along with the other players, and it is you joint most cherished object". "So I assume you know what I did from being fifteen till sixteen years old?" I asked to see if she knew everything about me. "Yes, for eight months you joined the IRA, you killed four people with a sniper rifle you took off you father. You were then asked to leave because you were to young and enjoyed killing them the people with two of them being innocent" Luna replied shocking Celestia and impressing Sombra. "How do you know all this?" I consciously questioned. "I've been looking over your life whenever I could, while I was on the moon" Luna answered my query. "So what you're really saying is that Dara isn't the real chosen one, he was never even going to be involved. All you wanted was me, you don't even care about what happened to everyone else, to think that I was forgiving you. You're just a selfish bitch" I exclaimed and pushed her aside and walked to her sister and demanded "Send me back home. NOW!" "Alex please calm down you don't know..." Luna tried to speak again, but I would not let her speak. "Shut the fuck up before I make you or on second thought Sombra I will fight alongside you in the war your planning, just get me back away from this bitch and I promise you will have extreme fire power on your side" I informed him hoping to get on his good side with my proposition. "Deal" He replied and a black aura surrounded us two. I closed my eyes to allow myself to calmly drift back to my world with the only thing able to be heard was Luna screaming "Wait, no". Third person POV After the black vortex had brought Alex to a new location, that left Celestia, Luna and Sombra in the room. But that was about to change when the Element bearers and Dara rushed through where the doors should have been and into the room. Dara rushed in between Celestia and Luna to show he was there for them, while the Element bearers stopped just short of the Princesses. All but Dara knew who was in front of them. For Dara though he remembered the pony in front of them to be the one of the ponies beside Alex in his nightmare. "Well now it's a party" Sombra chuckled. He knew he was the one with the advantage because if they tried to attack him they would not know where Alex was. "Who the fuck are you?" Dara questioned trying to find out the identity of the pony that was in his dreams. "I am King Sombra, the Prince of Darkness and rightful ruler of the Crystal Empire chosen one so have some respect" Sombra evilly answered Dara question with his proper title to show off his reputation. "Prince of Darkness huh, how come your not the King of Darkness?" Dara inquired not sure of why he was here either, so planned to ask that next. "Because the creator of Dark magic is the King of Darkness, I was just his only disciple well other than the newest recruit" Sombra answered and now sounded completely smug about the new recruit. "Why are you here anyway" Dara asked trying to find out the last bit of information before he should attack or not. "I was just collecting the new recruit, I believe you know him as Alex" Sombra answered and earned a gasp from almost everyone in the room. The only one who didn't gasp was Dara as he went wide eyed for a moment before realising Alex wasn't in the room with them. So he done the only thing he could think of at that minute. He rushed past the Celestial sisters and attempted to attack Sombra. When he got close enough to him he swung first with his right arm and then followed up with trying an uppercut with his left. Unfortunally both attacks failed with Sombra ducking first then stepping back to avoid the second attempt. Now it was his turn to attack with Dara guard down, but he chose not to actually injure him. Instead he used he used his horn to emit a pulse and send Dara sliding back to the others before speaking, "I do not plan on fighting you today, I would prefer when we are both at our fullest of strength, with you knowing magic before we commence. I wouldn't want to hurt 'the chosen one'" Sombra informed before the same black vortex appeared around him and disappeared in a matter of seconds. This stunned most in the room, all of the ponies thought that Sombra was a ruthless ruler who didn't care about anypony else's safety or well-being, but here he was saying he wanted Dara to learn magic so it would be a fair fight. There was a long moment of silence before Dara ended it "Where is Alex" Dara finally asked Celestia, making the girls finally realise the same thing as Dara, which Alex wasn't actually in the room with them. "Sombra is after teleporting him some place I don't know, I can't track his magic" Celestia answered lowering her head with the response she was forced to make. "It is not your fault sister, it is near impossible to track dark magic unless using dark magic. But this is all my fault I should have never brought him here" Luna replied but now was the pony with her head low. "What do you mean it's your fault" Dara asked wanting to get all the information before going head first into who knows where just to get his best friend back to the castle. "I had been looking over humans when I was on the moon, I seen many happy and upsetting times, I was constantly watching over Alex when thinking he was the chosen one, until he meet you. You matched all the criteria's, you are kind, funny, honest, generous, and loyal to your friends, but most of all anyone you care for are like family to you. You represent the Elements of Harmony that the girls wear" Luna informed but knew that didn't explain why she believed it was her fault so continued "After I figured out it was you, I soon realised you had become really close with Alex, he and his father took you in and treated you like family, but he started to change. He was no longer himself when his father died and started to get mixed with the wrong people. I knew you would ask for him to be with you, but I thought he would change back, but it looks like since I was one at the time with Nightmare Moon, she must have noticed his bad side as well and thought that she might be able to change him into a more powerful evil than Sombra and herself together". "So Alex was support to be the chosen one, but instead it's me and that you were looking for the chosen one all that time when you were banished and that you're evil self-had the same plan and are turning Alex evil from teaching him Dark magic?" Dara asked in a much shorter version. "Yes. Since this is my fault I will go after them, on my own" Luna said as her horn started to glow. "B-But you don't even know where he is" Twilight said to Luna hoping she did actually know where he was. Fortunally Luna had a way of knowing where he was. "I can't sense him in Equestria anymore that must mean he's back on Earth and I think I know exactly where he will be heading" Luna said as the light from her horn engulfed her body fast as she teleport to Earth to find Alex. Celestia then thought it was a good idea to speak to Dara in private so asked "Twilight, you and your friends company has been wonderful and I thank you all for helping to bring Alex and Dara here, but I would recommend for you all to head back to Ponyville. I will inform you all with what happens later but I think it might be a good to get back to your familiar lives". "Yeah but don't forget to send them back to Ponyville when you're done with them, I want to throw them one of my super-duper parties" Pinkie said as she bounced happily out the door, followed by Applejack, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. "I will have your new clothes waiting for you when you arrive darling" Rarity said as she left in her elegant way to meet back up with her friends. "I hope Luna will be ok in that world, it must be a whole lot stranger than adjusting to Equestria, I could only imagine how much more different it is to the mirror" Twilight said to her mentor as she assumed everything was completely different to what she experienced. "I'm sure she will be fine, whether he likes it or not he will help Luna out" Celestia informed Twilight and started to nudge her towards the exit to get some privacy with Dara. "Ok, I get the point, I will see you later Princess" Twilight said as she galloped out to catch up with her friends. Once Twilight was out of the room, Celestia put both doors back in place and sealed them shut before turning to Dara. Dara was a little nervous with Alex not being safe if he was back on Earth. He was usually the one who told him not to do most of the stupid stuff he did back on Earth, and since an evil being was with him instead that would hugely increase his desire to do such stupid things. Celestia noticed Dara was deep in thought but had to interrupt him, "I don't know what you are think about, but I need to ask you this, are you ready to learn magic and if worse comes to worse, use it on Alex?" Dara pondered over what he was just asked, he knew he had to learn it to face Sombra but wasn't sure he could use it against the man he consider a brother more than a best friend. He thought that Alex wouldn't use it against him for the same reasons, but just in case he had to learn it to protect himself against Alex. "I will use it against anyone who threatens me, even if it is Alex" he stated gaining a smile from Celestia before she realised he would have to under-go pain just to receive the ability to use magic by having it infused with his blood. "Ok then, we will start all of your treatment before after dinner" Celestia informed and started to leave Dara in the room on his own to try and rest after the weirdness that just happened and to prepare himself for the treatment. Just as she was out the door she smile to herself knowing he was that Luna was write, it was Dara, chosen one to save their world...was Dara.