Logan was enjoying his little tour around Ponyville, as the bubbly Pinkie Pie was hopping alongside him, pointing every little detail out, explaining what building was what, as well as listening to the mare just go on and on about the most random of things, as he just trotted next to her, listening to every detail. Any normal pony, would have likely went brain dead from listening to Pinkie talk on at a fast pace, but for the young Guardian, he was totally fine with it, as he just chuckles to himself. Soon, they arrived at the next stop, as Pinkie exclaimed happily.
"And this is Sugarcube Corner! This is where I work and live, with the Cakes who operate it! It is SOOOOOOOO much fun to bake all day, everyday and plan parties! Ooooh, reminds me that I gotta throw your 'Welcome to Equestria' party!!!~ You love parties right?? Huh, HUH!?" The mare grinned widely as she gets up to his face, meeting the stallions brown eyes.
He just smiles lightly, staring back into her eyes, "Of course I love parties, just never get time to celebrate a lot of them, since I am always on the go."
"Awww, well then I am gonna throw you a SUPER DUPER WELCOME PARTY THEN!!" Pinkie giggled.
He just chuckles, as he then notices two ponies that were coming out of the shop. Both were pegasus mares, one was a cyan colored pony with rainbow colored mane and tail with a cloud and rainbow colored lightning bolt on her flank, and the other was a yellow colored pony, with pink mane and tail, with three pink butterflies on her flank.
Pinkie sees them and gasps happily, "Oh hi Dashie! Hi Fluttershy!~" She hops over to the two ponies, who see her and smiled brightly.
"Heh, hey there Pinkie Pie! What's going on?" She grinned as she noticed Logan behind her standing, smiling lightly at the three, "And whose that with you? That a new pony?"
"Mmmhmm! Yep yep! This is that pony that Twilight said was coming to visit, the one the Princess sent!" Pinkie replied, hopping excitedly.
"Really?" The cyan pony asked, as he floats over to the young stallion.
"Hey there! Name's Rainbow Dash, most awesome and fastest flier in Equestria!" Dash grinned proudly as she bumps her chest with her hoof.
"Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash, I'm Silver Guardian." The stallion grinned lightly, and chuckles once more.
Soon, the yellow pegasus walks up to the two, as she looked down, hiding her face behind her long mane, "U-um...hello. My name is..." She whispered quietly.
Logan just looks at her and gives her a calm and warm look, "You are Fluttershy...correct?" He lifts his hoof up to her slowly, "I'm Silver Guardian, you don't need to be shy with me..."
Fluttershy just looks into the stallions eyes, seeing the sincerity and warmth in them, to which she smiles lightly, and shakes his hoof slowly, "N-nice to meet you Silver..."
He gives a very warm smile, which somehow brightens up the timid mare a bit and then looks to Pinkie, "Well I really enjoyed the tour around town Pinkie. It was so...descriptive and informative."
Pinkie nods and smiles warmly back, "Don't mention it! Always happy share every little itty, bitty, thing about Ponyville!~"
He just laughs to himself as he looks to the three mares, "Anyway, I do believe the others are at the castle. Shall we get going there, because I know you have questions, and of course, I will be happy to oblige, but I need to discuss the important matters that Celestia and Luna shared with me, before we go into QnA."
They nod, "Let's go then!" Dash exclaimed as she bolted off, leaving a rainbow streak behind, heading toward the castle.
"Okay...we'll see you two there then... And Silver, it was very nice to meet you..." Fluttershy smiled lightly at him as she starts to fly after Rainbow Dash.
"Well then, shall we Pinkie?" Logan asked, looking at her.
"Okie-doki-lokie!" She replied as she began bouncing off, with Logan following behind.
As he was going, he immediately stopped, "Hmm...?" He looks around, "...That presence just now, it felt....familiar..." He closes his eyes and thinks. "Almost felt like..." Before he can finish, he heard a shout.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEY SILVER!! COME ON!!!" Said Pinkie, yelling to the stallion, as his eyes snapped open.
"Oh...sorry Pinkie! Was imagining something!" He gallops after her, and looks back toward the shop, "...Was I imagining it?" He shook his head as he continued after Pinkie.
As he was going, a white unicorn with a pale yellow mane and tail, garbed in red and wore a red hat with a feather on the side with a black band around the hat, and had a purple jewel around her neck, watched the stallion galloped away.
She gave a soft smile, saying quietly, "...Don't worry, soon...I promise..." With that she vanished.
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Soon, everyone gathered at the meeting hall of Twilight's castle, each pony sat in their own throne, each boring their cutie marks, minus Spike who stood beside Twilight's throne.
"Alright everypony, as you know, the Princesses have sent this young stallion to tell us something of dire importance. I'm sure you all met Silver?" Twilight asked, smiling lightly.
All the ponies nodded, while they sat there, as Logan stood in the center of the room, taking the floor.
"Well then, Silver Guardian, the Princess Celestia and Luna have told you something that is very important, and we wish to know what exactly it is they told you, and then we want some answers as to who you are, since it is odd that they would just send a stranger to tell us of these matters instead of having to come down and tell us themselves. We really don't want to put you on the spot like this, since we just met you and you already seem like a very nice pony---" Before Twilight could continue, he raised his hoof, smiling lightly.
"It is alright Twilight. You seven have been very kind and accepting of me here, I can tell we are gonna get along great! But now onto the important matters. I ask that you hold off personal questions until after what I have to say. Okay?" He looks to the ponies, who nodded, as Pinkie was excited, she took a bag of popcorn out of her mane and began munching on it, leaving Logan to just chuckle and shake his head at the pink pony's antics.
"Alright, here is what I was told by Princess Celestia and Luna..." He took a deep breath, and gave a serious look.
"...An Ancient Evil has returned..." The ponies and Spike just blink, wondering what he meant, Fluttershy squeaked at the mention of evil.
"I don't know if you heard about this tale, because Celestia told me that the events that transpired five millenia ago, was something that wasn't well documented, since it lasted only a few weeks." He said, looking at them, Twilight leaned in close, as she seemed very interested in learning about this event.
"This is...the Legend of the Harmonia..."
The ponies didn't say a thing, though he can tell, they were already interested as they never seemed to have heard of this story.
"5000 years ago, after the one named Discord was sealed in stone by the Regal Sisters, a mysterious entity arrived on your world. At first, nopony seemed to bear in mind to it, as it only seemed to hang around in the shadows, around what is now known as the Everfree Forest. A couple weeks later though, that changed..."
"An entity of unknown origin....interesting..." Twilight thought to herself.
"The entity soon began to absorb the darkness within the hearts of ponies, as you know we all bear a little light and a little darkness in our hearts, can't have one without the other and all that. The entity began to become more and more like a being from which no pony should ever have to see. This being is called...Vexis."
"A being that absorbs the darkness...in your heart...oh-oh my...." Fluttershy closed her eyes, having that image in her head, before trying to think of something else.
"Vexis intention was never made clear, as it just wanted to consume your world, like swallowing the planet whole, sending it into nothingness. The Princesses attempted to use the Elements of Harmony to stop the being, but it absorbed so much, the Elements did little to nothing. For the first time, the sisters thought it was hopeless as the Elements were their only line of defense..that is until hope didn't leave them yet..."
"This is getting gooooood...!~" Pinkie said to herself as she munched on her popcorn.
"A mysterious figure appeared from nowhere, and stood at their sides, wielding a mythical, ancient blade that is said to be the full power of harmony itself. With their help, the Princesses used the powers of the Elements once more, this time combining the power of the blade, and the mysterious being was able to smite Vexis away. He saved everypony, saved an entire world from impeding doom, the being became known as the Hero of Realms."
All their eyes widen, just at the thought of some mysterious hero, appearing to their world and saving it from a great darkness like Vexis.
"They called the being that, as it turns out, he wasn't from Equestria, but from another dimension entirely. He saved countless other worlds and dimensions from evil, and it seemed he came in the nick of time to save yours..."
"A being from another dimension...?! There are other universes and worlds outside of this one...?" Twilight's eyes bugged out at the thought, but at the same time, she smiled brightly at the thought of other places outside of her world.
"Before he left this world, he helped the Princesses seal Vexis away in the deepest reaches of Tartarus, as the power of Harmonia and the Elements weakened it a lot. He left the blade here, to act as a key to the seal, and the Princesses sealed the ancient weapon away, in the hopes it wouldn't need to be disturbed as Vexis wasn't gonna return..."
"Wow Silver...my life reading all the books on lores and myths, I never heard of this story before, did the Princesses only know of this?" Twilight asked.
He smiles lightly, "I am going to get to that shortly Twilight, patience is a virtue."
Twilight just chuckles light as she blushed, looking away, "Heh...sorry, continue."
"Peace was restored for the time being, there was no sign of Vexis or any influence that the world was in peril, all was good...until 2000 years later. It was when Luna became the one known as Nightmare Moon, and was banished by Celestia to the Moon using the Elements. Peace was restored once more, but at a price..."
They all leaned in, gasping quietly.
"The seal...the seal that kept Vexis from returning, was beginning the wane. Since the Elements lost all their power after Luna was banished to the Moon, and were no longer bound to Celestia, the powers of the Harmonia were beginning to weaken as during that time, the Harmonia forged a strong connection to the Elements, but since they were no longer in power, it had to rely on the power of the Tree of Harmony, but even that would postpone the inevitable, as without the Elements being with the Tree, the Tree begins to weaken itself, thus making the seal weaken more."
He clears his throat quickly before continuing, catching his breath.
"1000 years later, Nightmare Moon returned to Equestria, her 1000 year banishment at an end. I believe you know the rest of this story girls, since this is when you all met and became the new bearers of the Elements of Harmony. You were able to stop Nightmare Moon and bring Luna back to normal, and I must say I never thought that friendship would be that powerful to do that."
Twilight just giggles, "Well, friendship is magic Silver..."
"However, you may have become the new bearers of the Elements and brought back their power, but the seal that kept Vexis away was broken. Problem was, Vexis has no way of getting out of Tartarus, so it just bides its time, to when an opening to escape occurs...and it did, recently..."
The girls took a minute before they gasped, "Y...you mean when..."
"Yes, after you stopped Tirek and sent him back to Tartarus, Vexis took this time to finally be able to escape Tartarus, and now it has returned..."
"S-so, the world is gonna get consumed a-again...!?" Fluttershy freaked out.
"Well it shouldn't be a problem! All we need to do is just find it and just smash it! We've been through worse things girls! This shouldn't be a problem, even for as someone as awesome as me!" Dash gloated.
"That may be the case Dash, Vexis could still be stopped...if it weren't for two factors..." Logan continued, looking at her seriously. The stare made even Dash cringe slightly, as if he was staring into her very soul. She then wondered if this is how animals felt when Fluttershy gave them the Stare.
"W-what factors...?" Dash muttered.
"One factor being and this should be a good one, Vexis may still be very weak. You think 5000 years imprisoned in the deepest reaches of Tartarus, it would have needed to absorb the darkness within those imprisoned there, but I feel that the Princesses knew that this would have been an issue so they isolated Vexis so it wouldn't do so. It would need time before it can return to it's full power, and how long that will take, I do not know, even the Princesses don't know. It could take a week, maybe a year, there is no telling for sure."
They all seemed to sigh in relief, knowing that took a bit of pressure off, but knew it would happen in due time, they just hope it won't be anytime soon.
"The second factor...the main IMPORTANT factor. Harmonia itself, where could it be hidden?"
They all looked at him, but seeing as they just learned of this stuff now, they don't know how to respond to that question.
"Exactly, we don't know where it is sealed away, and by Arceus it will take forever to search if we don't know where it is at." He closed his eyes in thought now.
"...Um, who the hay is Arceus...?" Applejack asked.
"Soon Applejack, soon." He stated looking at the farmer pony. "I asked Celestia and Luna if they recalled where the blade was sealed, but...they can't remember. And I know what your thinking, how is it that the Princesses could have forgotten about the location of the one weapon that was used to save their world...? For all we know, Vexis could have made them forget where they sealed the blade when they sealed the darkness away, we don't know. Meaning we are on our own, since texts and records about the event, there is little to no information, as to what Twilight was asking earlier, they didn't want other ponies to know about this event, because they knew it would strike more fear into their hearts if they knew Vexis could return, and fear feeds the darkness. So if Vexis did return, they needed to stay optimistic and have high hopes, which is likely why it will take time for it to return to its original strength, because as long as their light stays bright, Vexis won't be able to come close to consuming their darkness..." He explained.
He takes a deep breath, "And that, my fair ponies and dragon, is the Legend of Harmonia..."
Pinkie just clapped her hooves, "Wooo!! THAT WAS AN AWESOME STORY!! Hard to believe it actually happened and the fact that this mean darkness wants to eat our world again, BUT STILL AN AWESOME STORY!!~"
He just shakes his head, "Oh Pinkie, how random are you?"
"Exactly! Thank you!" Dash exclaimed, knowing she isn't the only one that realizes this, and that somepony shares this idea with her.
"I must say Silver, this is a lot to take in... I mean we just got done dealing with Tirek three months ago, and now a threat that has been around since the end of Discord's reign, you really think we can stop this Vexis before it takes over...?" Twilight said, giving a concerned look, as the girls seem to do the same, looking at the stallion.
He closed his eyes and looks to her, smiling calmly, "You girls have been through so much...like Rainbow Dash said, if you were able to stop someone as evil as Tirek, then I have faith that you will be able to do the same to Vexis....and you won't be alone, because I will be with all you, we will do this together! This time, we will make sure Vexis stays gone forever!" He said with determination, smiling brightly as he raised his hoof up. "Whose with me on this?"
The girls just blinked, taken aback by his sudden change in mood, but seeing him that determined and serious, just made them all smile.
"Yer right sugarcube! We done some much fer Equestria, we can do this together!" Applejack grinned as she raised her hoof up.
"Count me in! It may be dangerous, knowing that if Vexis succeeds then its over, but I am gonna be with you guys all the way through!" Dash flew up, proud and determined as she raised her hoof up.
"Must say darling, we may have just met you today, yet you are so bold and willing to risk your life to help us, I know we can do this together, as long as we have each other!!~" Rarity smiles warmly raising her hoof.
"WOOHOO WERE GONNA SAVE THE WORLD AGAIN!! AND ITS WITH A NEW FRIEND!!!~" Pinkie hops around as excitedly as she raised her hoof up, "I'M TOTALLY IN!!~"
"Um...its scary knowing all this...but, you would want to help save Equestria from a threat this big...I really wouldn't want to fight this being...b-but, as long as your with us...then I will help too...!" Fluttershy, nervously, raised her hoof.
Twilight looks to her friends and Silver, knowing that there is more to this pony than meets the eye, but seeing how he is capable of showing this much determination and valor, wanting to help them keep Equestria safe too, she just smiled brightly as she raised her hoof, "As long as we remain together, no matter what happens, we will be friends to the end!"
Logan looks to them, as they look back, and he chuckles thinking to himself, "Well, I can say this is gonna be a challenging quest, but...as long as we keep our hopes high, then there is no way we can fail..."
He puts his hoof down, "Now then, I'm glad you are all on board with this, despite knowing the risks. But, we need to keep our hopes high, our spirits up, and not let anything falter us. So, I guess now, it is time for a QnA session. I know that you have a lot of questions, like where I am from and what do I do and such, well, if the story surprised you all that much...get ready for a bigger one, because I have a dozy of answers..."
Pinkie just laughed, "Yaaay, more surprises!~"
He chuckles, "So, who wants to ask first?"
The girls looked at each other and grinned, as Twilight looks at him, "I do. Who exactly are you...and where are you from?"
He looks to the princess, and just smirked thinking to himself.
"Oh, I'm gonna have fun with this..."