This infuriated Pride to no end, when he was just ordinary, others told him that the world was full of possibilities and it was not just black or white. How wrong were they! The world only showed gray it was actually black and white! Pride had learned that when you were winning you were black and your opponents where white. He didn't mind being black, black was all the colors crunched together and white was no color. Black was the sure chose and white is no choice.
"Pride they are clearly after the element's but we must stop them." Nightmare Moon stated.
"But how?"
"Pride do you know what I thinking?" Nightmare asked. Pride knew just what Nightmare was thinking.
"Yes, lets strike fear in these little ponies." Pride chuckled.
"Lets start small." Nightmare Moon told Pride. They cause a rock slide but the ponies helped each other. They brought each other to safety and pressed on.
"Well lets try something more various?" Pride pondered.
"I thinks I have something." They snaked to a creature of the woods and left a thorn to in ranged it. With a roar the creature was ready for attack.
The groups of mares faced off against the monster, there was no way they would win! As they charged and tried to attack but one of them stopped the rest and then the little yellow mare calmed the monster.
"How!" Pride shrieked.
"Our next try, Sheer fear!" Nightmare Moon said as she entered the thickest and darkest grove of trees. Pride smile to himself as she cast a spell of fear to make even the most harmless shadow seem like a terrorizing horror.
They watched as five were quaking, ready to run, but a pink one was laughing. It was weakening the spell Nightmare Moon cast. Now the pink one was getting the others to laugh and forget their fear!
"How!" They both whiled.
"We will need to do something else," Pride told his partner. "I think we need another animal attack."
"Agreed but what?" Nightmare Moon asked.
"That!" Pride cried as he saw an enormous serpent like creature with long whiskers. "Let's see what cutting one of it's whiskers will do?" In shadow form the two sliced one of his long whiskers.
The two watched but as the serpent began to while. "NO, my beautiful mustache!" the serpent began to thrash back and forth. His thrashing made the river UN-passable.
"Not what I was expecting, but it shale in peed them."
"Yes," Pride laughed to himself. "Now let us see what happens."
The two watched as the mares came upon the serpent. This time a white unicorn one calmed the serpent by cutting off her long tail and giving it to him. The serpent decide to help them a cross, this was inconceivable! How could these mare be doing this!
"There is a bridge it is the only thing that stands between them and the castle and the Elements of Harmony. We must cut the bridge down." Nightmare Moon told him.
"Yes, and while two are flyers the strongest will be the one to repair the bridge. We will tempt her with her heart's desire," Pride said to her. "No one turns down what they truly want. Now let us do this now."
They cut the bridge and waited for them to arrive they began to shroud the area in fog. They waited until their target came a cyan mare with a rainbow mane. Before she could reattach the bridge Nightmare Moon went to work making shadowy clones. Pride could only smile as they offered her what she most wanted, fame, glory, and recognition of her speed.
"Nah," She told them.
"How! How! Can she have turned us down!" Pride roar when she was gone from sight.
"We must make our way to the Castle and deal with them there." Nightmare Moon boomed.
Nightmare Moon and Pride sped to the castle to stop the group. “What is happening? Why are we failing? They should fall so easily.” Pride fumed.
“I’ll take the Elements and that little Unicorn before she can bring them back to life with the spark.”
“Good, I’ll help you!” The two blended together becoming a roaring torrent of wind together the two reached down into the castle taking them in their grasp, the unicorn and the stone elements lifting them and dropped down in the nearest tower.
“You little foal! Did you really think you could use the Elements of Harmony against US!” Nightmare moon screeched.
The little lavender unicorn scraped the ground and ready to charge them.
“Your kidding?” Nightmare moon commented. The unicorn still ready to charge. “You’ve got to be kidding.” The little unicorn charged.
“ATTACK HER!” Pride howled. They charged towards her before they clashed the unicorn disappeared. “Where is she!”
Nightmare Moon turned around to see the unicorn around the elements, she was pouring her magic into the elements. They started to glow and raise “No, it can’t be!” They flattered and dropped to ground. With a rush of movement Nightmare Moon were now in front of the elements and brought down her hooves, crushing the stones.
“Yes, victory!” Pride Cheered.
“Twilight! Come on!” New voices called form a set of stairs. The follow of power changed in the room suddenly. The other ponies were now in the room, all the of them ready for a fight.
“What is this?” Pride hissed. Pride felt Nightmare Moon started to back away from the Mars. “Lets get them, Now!” But his words were lost on Nightmare Moon as she was listening to the purple unicorn. That’s when he noticed the shards of the broken elements were starting to float and thrummed with power.
“What? But I destroyed the Element!” Nightmare Moon cried.
“You can not destroy the Elements, because the spirits of the Elements are right here;
Apple Jack, who reassured me when I was in doubt is the Element of, HONESTY.”
Fragment started to float over to the orange mare. “What is it?” Pride asked.
“Flutter Shy who tamed a manticore with a simple act is the Element of, KINDNESS.”
Then another set of ferments came over to her. “Nightmare Moon, what is happening!”
“Pinkie Pie who dispelled fear by singing is the Element of. LAUGHTER.”
He felt like he was being pushed away. “Tell me what’s happening!”
“Rarity who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a gift is the Element of GENEROSITY.”
“NIGHTMARE! What is happening!” Pride ragged.
“Rainbow Dash who would not abandon her friends for her own hearts desire is the Element of LOYALTY.”
“Our power!” Pride felt that he was being torn piece by piece. “What is happening!”
“When these elements are brought together and are ignited by the spark, a different kind of spark one that was awakened in me when I realized that I wanted to see these ponies, my friends, again. That brought forth the sixth the element of MAGIC!”
Power came to life and as each fragment orbiting the mares took on a form of a necklaces and a teira dropped onto the unicorns head. Power thrummed and as each fragment of that power danced together. A wave of power bubbled up, up, higher and higher. A new wave of power that was unlike anything Pride had felt more tearing and ripping. The wave was released, rainbow light came crashing towards them.
“Run Nightmare!” Pride shrieked in panic but they did not move. The wave struck them both now he was being peeled away from his new body, losing what he had become. “NO, YOU CAN’T STOP PRIDE!” He raged. “PRIDE WILL ALWAYS BE, PRIDE WILL BE BACK!”
Pride fell and fell he was now becoming less and less. Pride was becoming something that he was in the past, he was becoming once again that which he thought he had transcended. Pride felt pain as the meat sack that was once Walter Sykes. The former Pride dropped to the ground. He looked around, he was now laying on a cement floor. He was back, he was back in his former weak form. His lungs filled with air his heart beat again. He struggled to let out a voice that once belong to the body but nothing came. The son came, the son of the one who ruined his life as Wally. He stood over the former Pride and dropped a white, think cloth over him. His breathing and heart stopped just as suddenly as it started.
The thing that was not Walter Sykes, nor Pride stood in the black, heavy chains around him. Light filled the room and soon stood before him stood The Weak One. The two stood in silence for a long time.
The Weak One frowned and spoke. “I am sorry, I am sorry that it came to this. Now you are nothing! Not Wally, Not Walter Sykes and Not Pride. You are nothing, and now you must go where only nightmare and monster go. In to the dark, and pray there is mercy there for you.”
The Weak One walked away, taking the light with him, leaving the Not Walter Sykes, the Not Pride in the dark. It was like that for a long time until the sounds reached him. A massive guard dog with three heads descended upon him. In it’s massive jowls it took the Not Walter Sykes, the Not Pride and dragged him away.
His jailor has come to collect him.
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The fall is always remembered, but not always what led to it.
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