Six ponies are tasked to find both Celestia and the mythical Elements of Harmony in the castle of the two Sisters. During the summer sun celebration, Twilight found out that on the longest night on the one-thousandth year of Nightmare Moon's imprisonment, the stars will aid in her escape from the moon and create a permanent night throughout the magical land known as Equestria. In order to find the elements, they have to venture through a dangerous area known as the Everfree Forest. All six of them, trembling in front of the opening into the great forest.
Way above the canopy, they spotted a meteor falling straight into the middle of the forest from the sky. The impact creaded a loud boom resonating throughout the forest and Ponyville, shaking up everything in the impact's radius. "WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT!?" the rainbow-maned pegasus shouted. "We won't know if we don't investigate and get to the castle immediately" the lavender unicorn evaluated. "YAY!!! TWO MYSTERIES WITH ONE ADVENTURE!!!" the pink pony squeed while bounding around the entire group in a circle.
In the center of the crater, surrounded by flames, the last human, William Draven laid there, motionless. He slowly gained consciousness, taking in the atmosphere of the forest around him. He slowly stood up, jabs of pain shot through his bullet wounds in his arms and legs, the adrenaline worn off as he struggled to stand. He clenched his bleeding shoulder, limping out of the crater and through the forest trail, looking for a way out. Tripping over an exposed tree root, he caught himself by grabbing a hold of the nearest tree, the pain in his body ever more so present, like being poked with over one hundred red hot needles at once. He kept himself at the tree until the pain died down and hobbled to his feet.
(Stop Music)
(Mission 1 - Everfree)
After a few minutes of walking, he came across a big cliff. A hundred, maybe two hundred foot drop. What connected the two cliffs was an old rickety bridge, something you would see out of an Indiana Jones movie. Before he could set a single foot on that bridge, the bounty hunter heard growling coming from a pack of wolves. One of them leaps out of the bushes, snarling at the fearless killer. The wolf had yellow, glowing eyes and a body literally made out of wood. Without giving it a second thought, he unsheathed his sword and turned it around so he could wield it the opposite way and drawing his .45 towards the literally and ironically named timberwolf.
The wolf leaped at him, but he had the blade positioned correctly where the wolf just sliced its own jaw off, whimpering at the cracking and splintering of the wood. Draven turned around to face it, where sap-like blood is oozing from where its jaw used to be. A few more timberwolves jumped in from the shrubs, circling around the bounty hunter. One ran up to him and tried to swing its claws at him, but it ran straight in front of the barrel of his gun. He pulled the trigger and splinters and sap shot out of the other side following the loud bang. The wolf behind him leaped at him. He thrust his blade backwards, impaling the wolf who tried to sneak attack him. The third wolf was kicked back into the bushes by a roundhouse kick. Draven then starts to run across the bridge which is swaying and swinging back and forth from his weight. He tripped on a breaking plank and fell over, close to the other side. With more wolves coming from the bushes, Draven grabs both sides of the bridge and rolls everything around, throwing off a few wolves to their deaths, but some were holding onto the planks with their claws. The bridge rolled back into place and Draven managed to get across, the wolves still behind. He used his sword to sever the one link, sending all of the wolves on the bridge off balance. "I hope you little puppies can swim" he joked before severing the other link, causing the bridge to swing to the other side, throwing all of the wolves off into the river below.
(Stop Music)
He stood still to catch his breath and continued on his unknown path. An old, rundown castle stood in the distance in the overgrowth. The front doors looked like they were never repaired at the time the castle was damaged in some sort of attack. Since it was night out, he wasn't taking any chances sleeping out in the open in case one of those Timberwolves tried to attack him in his sleep. He went inside the castle and up a flight of cobblestone stairs. what greeted him at the top was an old throne room. Overgrowth covered most of the walls and very few of the stone pillairs on the sides of the immense room looked like the ceiling could crash down at any minute. He looked up to the ceiling and seen that it was filled with holes with the moonlight gleaming through. In the center of the back at the top of stairs, there was two identical thrones and above them was a flag of some sort. A moon above the throne on the left and the sun on the throne of the left. Above the flag could be the possible fallen country's flag. Tired, he walked up the short set of stairs and sat on the throne below the moon and fell asleep.
"Quite the beautiful night, is it not?" a feminine voice startled Draven. He jumped out of the throne, instantly drawing his .45 and pointing it at the source of the sound. "My my, jumpy are we?" there was that voice again.
"Show yourself, NOW!!!"
"I'm the royalty, I should ask you to why would you sleep on MY throne?"
The supposed royalty came out of the shadows and it was a pony? No, a humanized pony? What did Pony Celestia mean by this world being more suited for him? Maybe deep down, he liked the idea of an apocalypse that he can live through.
The mare had black fur with dark blue armor on her head, chest, arms and legs. Her eyes had a dim blue color with the pupils shaped like a poisonous snake's. Behind the armor, she wore a dark blue dress with marks of black all over.
"And who just might you be?" he demanded, his weapon still pointing at the anthro pony.
"I am the REAL ruler of Equestria. The ruler of the night, Nightmare Moon!"
A scimitar appeared in her right hand, looking like the night sky. Draven holstered his gun and drew his blade.
"You are trespassing and you must be eradicated!"
(Stop Music)
Nightmare Moon (Tabitha St. Germain)
Nightmare charged at Draven, swinging her sword. He instantly blocks the attacks by parrying each swing with his own, only sounds of metal clanging and sparks flying filled the room. He followed up with a roundhouse slash, knocking her off balance. She flew up into the air with her wings and kept in the air. He sheathed his sword and got out both of his .45s and shot frantically at the Mare in the Moon multiple times. She teleported in different areas, dodging the bullets. She threw lightning bolts towards the bounty hunter and were struck multiple times in the arms and chest.
"Those were supposed to kill you! What kind of magic allowed you to survive?" she demanded. "This ain't no magic, sunshine" He simply pointed the gun to his chest and fired, flinching from the impact. The bullet was in his vest, but didn't go through. He pulled out the bullet and tossed it aside, smoke still coming from the holes "Kevlar vest" he explained while bowing "and it still works like a dream." She shook her head in confusion and dove bomb towards him, her sword pointed towards the bounty hunter. He dove out of the way. He wielded his blade the opposite way to block another flurry of slashes.
"The way you fight, are you a soldier?" she asked, still swiping away at the bounty hunter.
"I used to be, I have to admit; for a ruler, I wouldn't expect less of your skill. You do lose points because if there is no one to rule over, then how would you have power?"
"My sister took everything away from me a thousand years ago; sealed me in the moon for wanting the night to last so that my subjects can appreciate my work instead of shunning it by sleeping through it!"
"Hate to break it to ya, but I don't think anyone is left alive anymore."
"Outside of this forest, there is a whole country that is ruled over by my sister. I just came to destroy the only things that can be used against me."
"Which are-?"
"The Elements of Harmony!"
He made a quick chuckle "You can't be serious. Sounds like it was made up by a little girl!"
"Don't underestimate their power. They were used to seal me away; I doubt you'll survive if they're used against you. You've heard too much; I must not let you live!"
A blue beam shot out of Nightmare's hand. He tried to reflect it with his sword, but the beam went through the blade and straight through his chest, knocking him to the ground. His sword was thrown away from him, sliding across the room. She stood next to him and raised her sword up in the air, a look of twisted satisfaction on her face. She stopped when both of them heard voices from the doorway. "Ponyfeathers; they're here!" she growled "You're lucky, hairless ape!"
(Fight Over)
The mare in the moon, disappeared in a haze of stars and sky, flying up through one of the holes in the ceiling. He walked over to his sword and placed it back in its scabbard inside the back of his coat. Not knowing what will happen, he ran off the the nearest doorway. He stopped to look at the six, colorful mares walk up the the throne room. One had a rainbow-colored mane that seemed messy. She wore a blue tank top that had a cloud with a rainbow-colored lighting bolt logo on the center and khaki shorts with light blue fur. One had on a purple blouse and skirt with a matching set of wavy hair and sapphire blue eyes and white fur. One had orange fur with a red short sleeved shirt and blue jeans. She also wore a brown stetson hat. Her hair was blond tied up in a ponytail. (Horse puns, great.) The hyper, pink-furred girl had poofy hair that sported a deeper shade of pink. She wore a yellow v-neck t-shirt with blue skintight shorts. One girl was hiding behind the hyper one. She had wavy light pink hair and fur color that resembled butter. She wore a green sweatshirt with a pink skirt. The last one with a book in her hands had dark purple hair with a pink highlight. Her fur was a brighter shade of purple with purple eyes. This one wore a white long sleeved collared shirt with a black vest worn over it and a dark blue skirt. The white and purple mares had horns on their heads and the yellow and light blue mares had wings. The orange and pink mares had neither.
"Alright girls; we're here" the lavender unicorn announced "according to this book, we go through the doorway to the left and straight up the flight of stairs and we'll find the elements."
The bounty hunter immediately hid in the shadows in the corner of the hallway. They didn't notice him as they passed right by him. When they were gone, he emerged from the shadows and dashed to the other side of the throne room. He ran up the flight of stairs that led into an observatory room that had most of the windows broken and they too had been covered in overgrowth. He stopped in the middle of the room, observing every inch of the space. It reminded him of one of his battles in the war and caused him to have a flashback.
Five years ago, during the final days of the war, his last battle serving in the Embryon Rebel Unit took place in Brooklyn of New York. Most of the city was in shambles. All that was left were the skyscrapers and even then, they had holes and flames blowing out of them. Some of the civilians that were still alive were scattered around, trying desperately to evacuate out of the city. Hundreds of thousands were killed to both sides. Some soldiers who were loyal to the government thought it was an excuse to go and kill innocent people who believed they supported in bringing down the government.
Draven experienced the tyranny and mental instability that war made those into animals, but he knew nature was just running its course. Being the leader of his unit wasn't easy and he was still weak from being a prisoner for the last six months. Many of his soldiers were scared, morality was low, and some abandoned him. Even at fifteen-years-old, he had much experience under his belt and the body count in the hundreds that weighed him down from the clouds of arrogance. He wasn't a fool for that his future would be no victory, but a bloody death. His second in command, Lieutenant Busch before he went rouge, was very concerned for his commanding officer. When the smoke of war and confusion would die out, it would be easy for the government to manipulate the populace into believing that Draven was responsible for killing innocent people in Brooklyn even though some of their soldiers saw fit to see them as human shooting galleries.
The last of his unit was holed up in a church, somehow untouched by the destructive haze of the war. Draven remembered what Busch told him. He said that if the so called savior would actually be one and end the never ending cycle, then peace would flourish. He told his Lieutenant that unconscious thinking is what led humanity to war in the first place and by shattering the face of moral glass, then true nature of humanity would show. He raised his assault rifle and shot out all of the stained glass windows in the altar. He showed to his soldiers that they are not puppets, but those with shattered consciousness can piece the pieces of humanity back together by finding the pieces of middle ground.
The government accused Draven of killing those innocent people who lost their lives during that battle and nicknamed him as the Brooklyn Butcher.
If only he followed his advice. The world he knew wouldn't follow his advice as humans are born, fight, kill and die every day. That was the reason Wilhelm caused humanity to kill each other; to end the cycle of endless violence and rebirth. It only saddened him even more that he had the burden of being the last human alive. Hopefully the world he lives in now doesn't follow that same path. This time he will keep that from happening.
His train of thought was interrupted by a flash of light behind him. Without any thought, he drew his handgun and pointed at the source, backing away from it. That same lavender Unicorn accidentally teleported into the room. He gasped; he knew who that mare is; Twilight Sparkle. She got her bearings and looked around. She screamed as she saw the bounty hunter.
"Hold on; I'm not the enemy!" he shouted, trying to calm her down, pointing his gun away from her direction.
"Who are you? WHAT are you?"
"My name is William Draven. I'm a human."
She pointed to his face "What kind of cutie mark is that?" she asked. "What are you talking about?" his eyebrow raised. The unicorn handed him a large piece of broken glass to see his reflection. The mark on the right side of his cheek was the zodiac symbol of Scorpio the scorpion. This creeped him out.
"What the hell?" he touched the side of his cheek and he could feel the scar where the symbol was.
"Wait, so you didn't know about it?" Twilight grew concerned. She looked past him and gasped. He heard that familiar laughter. He spun around, pointing his gun at the wicked mare. Five sphere-like rocks were held up in the air by her magical aura. 'Those must be the elements' he thought. Twilight dashed past the bounty hunter towards Nightmare and disappeared in a flash of purple. The mare in the moon took the bait and was ten feet away from the elements. Twilight appeared next to the elements, attempting to activate them with her magic. The spell backfired and sent her flying away from the elements. The bounty hunter ran to her, knocking him down on the impact. The elements started to form a magical chain and power up to a green aura, the mare in the moon in the center of the circle.
"No. NO!" she pleaded. The magic faded and the unicorn was confused "It didn't work; where's the sixth element?"
Nightmare just laughed as she threw her hoof down on the center of the circle, shattering all of the elements to pieces. She stood there in horror, her hopes shattered (no pun intended.) Draven fired off the rest of the bullets in his gun's clip before he hard clicking from the gun. All of the bullets he fired in her direction whizzed around her like some kind of opposite force magnet. The wicked mare smiled at his failed attempt.
"You think a mere young mare and a hairless ape can get rid of ME?" she boasted "Your princess will be gone forever and the sun will be nothing but a mere memory. Now to take care of both of you."
Draven felt a spark of intense pain shooting through his cheek. "Draven! Your cutie mark is glowing!" Twilight yelled. The light from the symbol spread throughout his face. He screamed as his entire body became engulfed in the same light and the silhouette of his body started to change. When the light faded, the human was no more. He became a strange bipedal wolf. His long hair, clothes and purple eyes are still present. His fur color became a combination of blue and orange.
"TWILIGHT!!!" the wolf heard the five other mares' shouting in unicen. They took the shocked mare behind one of the pillars and hid from the fight going to ensue. The purple mare clung onto Twilight "TWILIGHT! WHAT IS THAT!?"
"It's no timberwolf, but it used to be a creature called a human and it turned into some kind of wolf."
"Land sakes, girl; does that even make sense?" the southern-accented mare scratched her head out of confusion.
"That's it! I'm going in and taking both of them!" the rainbow maned Pegasus growled and tried to get off the ground, but was pulled back to the group by her tail by the stetson hat-wearing mare.
"Wait Rainbow!" Twilight reasoned with the Pegasus "He helped me, let him fight her."
"Fine" she sighed, folding her arms and letting out a frustrated sigh.
"You have no place in this world, you abomination!" Nightmare growled at the werewolf as she shot magic bolts at him. He leaped to the side, the bolts barely missing him. He ran to a pillar and punched it, causing it to crack and detach from the floor. He got a hold of the massive column and threw it at the mare in the moon. She summoned her sword and swung it vertically down, causing the column to split and go two different directions. She threw the blade at the wolf, but he jumped up and backflipped, landing on his feet. He made a mad dash towards the mare in the moon, dodging all of the projectiles thrown by Nightmare. She used her mana to magically construct an ethereal spear.
She threw the spear at the wolf, but he stood there, holding his paw out forward. He caught the tip by his palm and had it slowly absorbed into his hand. Nightmare had a look of both confusion and fear. She slowly backed away a few steps but regained her composure. She used her levitation spell to break off two more stone columns from the floor. She attempts to sandwich the wolf in between them. He dashes towards the evil alicorn as the columns shatter into small rocks.
Rainbow Dash was watching the fight from the side of the furthest column.
"How the hay can somepony move so quick? What is he?"
"Whatever he is, he's one brave stallion" the posh unicorn blushed.
The Mare in the Moon summoned blue magic blades from her palms to slash at the wolf, but he was a lot faster than her attacks. He bent around each swipe, him inching closer to her. He thrusts his right palm out at her chest, knocking her back into a wall, cracks formed on her metal breastplate. Nightmare's vision got blurry as she tried to get back up to her hooves. The wolf arched his head up and howled. The noise shook the entire castle as it shattered all of the other stained panes in the room. The wolf dashes toward the disoriented alicorn. She teleports away from him at the last minute, causing him to wedge his arm into the wall. He tore his arm out of the wall, creating a larger hole and sprints toward her on all fours. She teleported again, causing the wolf's pounce to miss. She kept reappearing and disappearing as the wolf kept swiping in areas she was, but to no avail, he kept missing. The mare appeared behind him and spell launched him towards the group of frightened mares. He looked at the mares who now are wearing some kind of golden necklaces except for Twilight, who is wearing a tiara.
The wolf turned around to see the weak Nightmare, who is charging up a lethal blast from her horn. Without thinking, the wolf charges straight towards the Mare in the Moon while the six mares wearing the golden jewelry shot out a rainbow beam. The beam struck the wolf as the energy channeled to his right fist and connected with Nightmare's chest. A rainbow explosion shot out from the punch, completely engulfing the room, blinding everyone for seconds until the light faded.
(Fight Over)
What was left was scattered pieces of nightmare moon's armor and an unconscious blue alicorn in the center. In the wolf's place was Draven, now back to his human form, was struggling to keep his balance. Even though he was back to normal, the ears and tail were sill present on him. He turned around to look at the six mares, his vision all blurry. He fell onto his back, blacking out.