Harmony sighed as she looked down towards the six ponies that had created her. "I'm afraid I can't do that." she said.
"What!" Claw yelled as his horn ignited in Dark Magic, "Why in the world can't you?"
"Because, to aid you in your battle is to become like the ones I'm battling, I'm a pony of peace and tranquility, not of chaos and war." Harmony's voice had an odd motherly tone this time.
Claw lost it then and fired a powerful beam of magic at Harmony, intending to reverse what he'd created. The beam, however, reflected off a rainbow colored shield that had been conjured by Harmony, her horn glowing the same color. Everypony stared in shock at the coloration of the shield, none of them had seen the colors of a rainbow short of the blood of Alicorns before, however, Alicorn blood faded from red to violet and every color in-between. The magic of the shield and Harmony's horn showed each of the seven colors of the rainbow without the blending effect, just the colors in order and one after another. Claw growled as he charged his horn for another attack, however, he stopped when he saw rainbow colored flames slowly spreading his way. The flames slowed, but they didn't stop and Claw was beginning to wonder just how kind Harmony really was.
"I truly don't wish to bring anypony harm, if you accept my gift willingly then I'll help, in a way, with your own problems." Harmony said calmly.
"What gift?" Shadow asked, the flames were also approaching her and the others.
"True freedom, the flames around me are unique in that they will not burn you specifically, but rather the evil in your hearts, freeing you of its taint. Of course, this process will be painful should you not accept willingly, I wish it wouldn't be, but we don't always get what we ask for."
Claw hissed a bit before asking why they'd have to except in the first place.
"I can't help you if evil taints your heart even slightly. These fires will keep that from happening and will allow you to feel peace. So... do you accept?"
five heads nodded, It was Claw that didn't nod.
With that, the fire shot forward, engulfing the five and quickly burning the evil away. The five ponies shook their heads to clear the haze from the flames, leaving Claw as the only pony that didn't accept, though Harmony didn't force anything on him. Harmony closed her eyes as her horn ignited with the rainbow magic again, Claw was teleported out of the primary circle as she reached out with a small amount of Necromancy and grasped a bit of each ponies soul.
"Shadow, Night, Storm, Blaze, Silver, prepare yourselves, this'll hurt a bit." with that, she pulled the bit of each ponies soul, severing the small piece from the rest of their soul and levitating five small spheres of whitish energy with their respect magic auras around each. The five cringed and cried out in pain the second Harmony had severed the soul fragments.
"What'd you do?" Night asked, finding herself quite calm even though she was sure that she should have blown up in anger.
Harmony said nothing as the fragments flew around her, a thin rainbow colored mist entering each before they stopped. The fragments turned into gems of five different colors Red, Pink, Orange, Purple, and Light-Blue. The gems began to radiate with magic as they were engulfed in a bright light. When the light died down, five almost identical ponies stood in place of the gems. All had golden coat; flowing manes that had designs of electricity, mist, fire, waving water, and an odd semi-transparent design with a wavering effect that distorted the area behind it when looking through it, respectively; glowing eyes of Red, Pink, Orange, Purple, and Light-Blue respectively; and Destiny Marks that were of the very gems they had been created from. All five were Unicorns.
"Hello my children, would you care to state your names?" Harmony asked.
"Loyalty." the one with a red mane, eyes, and gem cutie mark said.
"Kindness." the pink one said.
"Honesty." was the orange ones reply
"Generosity." the one with purple said.
"And Laughter." the Light-Blue one replied.
"Umm... Harmony, could you explain?" Blaze asked.
"Yes, of course. I've used some magic to take a fragment of each of your souls, these fragments were part of the primary part of your personalities. Those parts are the ones named by my children. I used these to create my children as you see."
"Oh, are they going to help us?" Storm asked.
"In their own way, yes. In this case, it wont be painful, but my children will bind their souls to the one of you that they came from, this'll allow you to access their power to defeat these evils of yours. Of course, I'm not allowing you easy access to them at any time, only when you're wearing the necklaces of each."
"We understand." Shadow replied, she knew that, even with any evil in them having been burned away, they could still easily succumb to a hunger for power if they were always able to use the power they were about to be granted.
Harmony's children began casting the binding spell then. Once the spell was cast, five golden necklaces appeared with a gem depicting the main part of the Destiny Marks of the pony that would wear each one (that or the most abundant part). Shadow got the one which depicted a red pony cowering in fear, this was the Element of Loyalty. Night's was the one depicting a Light-Blue star, the Element of Laughter. Storm got the one depicting a pink lighting bolt, the Element of Kindness. Blaze got the one depicting an orange fire, the Element of Honesty. Finely, Silver got the one depicting a purple set of three interlocking crescent moons, the Element of Generosity. The five weren't the only ones to change a bit (they had started glowing when the necklaces were on them) though. Harmony's children also changed, they changed gender, mane/tail style, and Destiny Marks. Harmony's children now looked almost like recolors of the ponies they had bound their souls to, just with Destiny Marks that were the gems embedded in the necklaces worn by their bearers.
The five bearers bowed to Harmony and her children.
"Thank you Harmony, we will not let you down." Night said.
"You are welcome. If you ever need any help-" Harmony stopped their as her horn glowed and a large, beautiful, tree rose from the ground, "You know where to find us." with that, Harmony and her children turned around and walked up to the tree. The six pointed star design in the center of the tree opened up to reveal a large swirling white vortex that sucked Harmony and her children in before closing.
It was ten minutes of walking later when Storm finely spoke up.
"Hey, did any of you notice that Claw left?" he asked.
"Yea, but that doesn't matter." Shadow said.
"You know, we should come up with a name for these." Night motioned towards her necklace as she spoke.
"Hmm, we should. How about-" Silver took a moment to come up with a name, "The Element's of Harmony?" he asked.
After a pause, they all agreed.
"Yea, the Elements of Harmony, those who bring harmony to their land and defeat what is evil. I like it." Blaze said happily as she jumped in the air.
"Harmony?" Storm asked.
"Well... yea. Like we said earlier, their isn't a word that I can think of to describe something opposite of evil, so I was thinking that Harmony's name could mean balance or something, since we all know that we can't have absolutely no evil in the world."
"Okay." the rest said.