Chapter 11
The Castle of the Two Sisters
(Heroes’ POV)
The heroes were gathered around the map of Equestria, watching as the night spread further and further over the land.
“Grrr. What can we do to stop this!?” Rainbow groaned, “Both Nightmare Lilac plus Nightmare Moon are too powerful for us. And we can’t turn into our Chaos Guardians while in this form.” Rainbow said referring to them being ponies.
“Princess Celestia said to seek out the old hermit in the Castle of the Two Sisters.” Twilight said, “We’ll need to start there.” She said pointing at the castle in the everfree forest.
“But that place has already been covered by the darkness. Is it going to be safe?” Rarity asked.
“We don’t have a choice.” Ace said, “We need to stop the Nightmares, no matter the cost or dangers.”
So the heroes headed for the everfree forest.
They stopped at the entrance to the forest and could see many glowing eyes within it.
“Let’s go.” Twilight said walking into the forest.
One by one, the rest of the heroes walked into the forest.
Dark was the last one, but when he stepped into the forest, he suddenly began to shiver in fear. He heard a familiar evil laugh inside his head.
Sunset saw this and turned, “Dark? Are you ok?”
Dark shook off the feeling, “I’m fine. Let’s go.”
And the heroes continued into the forest.
However, they didn’t see the shadow following them across the ground, smiling evilly.
(Castle of the Two Sisters)
The heroes made it to the ancient castle.
“Well let’s get going.” Sonic said running towards the bridge.
“Sonic wait!” Twilight shouted.
Too late. Sonic had ran onto the bridge, causing the old boards to break, “AH!” He shouted as he began to fall.
But he was caught by Rainbow, who flew and caught him at lightning speeds.
“Phew, thanks Dash.” Sonic said.
“Anytime, blue boy.” Rainbow said lifting the blue pony back to solid ground, “Though you could lay off on some of the chilidogs.”
When Rainbow and Sonic got back to solid ground, the heroes looked at the gap between them and the castle.
“Now what?” Sonic said, “Dash could barely lift me back up here, so I highly doubt she’ll be able to lift us all over that big gap.
“I think I’ll sprain a wing.” Rainbow said flapping her wings.
“Duh. There are so many solutions to this.” Twilight said, “And the simplest one.” Her horn began to glow, “Is a teleportation spell.”
However, the shadow figure that was following the heroes charged her own horn, creating an anti-teleportation spell bubble around the castle.
When Twilight and the others teleported, they didn’t appear on the other side, instead, they were falling straight down the gorge.
“AHHH!” They all yelled.
Twilight charged another teleportation spell, and teleported everyone back on the cliff.
The shadow figure smiled evilly and remained in the shadows.
“What happened? One second I see invision us teleporting into the castle, then next we’re falling in the gorge we wanted to cross!” Twilight said confused at herself, “How did this happen?”
Shadow looked at the castle, “Chaos Spear!” He shot a chaos spear at the castle. It deflected off the magic barrier.
“So that’s why. It’s got a magic barrier around it. It must prevent magic from passing into the castle.” Twilight said, “That means the only way in is… walking straight through the barrier.”
“But the bridge is broken. How are we going to get across?” Silver asked.
Rainbow tapped Silver, “Duh.” She flapped her wings.
Rainbow flew down and grabbed one of the fallen bridge halfs, “Got one! But I can’t get the other one!”
Fluttershy flew over to the other bridge half and lifted it, slowly, “I got the other half.”
The two pegasi flew up to each other and connected the bridge, which Twilight and Rarity used their magic to tie back up.
“Let’s go guys.” Twilight said running across the bridge.
The heroes ran across the bridge, still unaware of the shadow figure following them.
Inside the Castle
The heroes got inside the castle and started looking around.
So far they hadn’t found any old hermit living in the castle.
“Uhg. Why do we need to see this guy anyways? It’s not like he’s going to be able to defeat the Nightmares.” Sonic groaned.
“I don’t know why. But if the Princess says we need to, then it’s for a good reason.” Twilight said.
Twilight walked into the library to check for any secret passages. However, she was having no luck, “Uhg. This is not easy. By the time we find this hermit, Equestria will be covered in darkness forever.”
Tails came into the room and saw Twilight, “Any luck?”
Twilight sighed, “No. Nothing yet.”
“Don’t worry, Twilight, we’ll save Equestria, your friends, and the Princess.” Tails said.
Twilight smiled, “Thanks, Tails.”
Tails smiled and nodded. Then he left and went to search somewhere else.
Twilight then pulled out a book with history about the castle in it. Also a few legends written down in it too.
As Twilight looked at the architecture of the castle, she noticed that some rooms that weren’t there the last time she read the maps, “Huh?” Even the ink was semi fresh. Someone had recently written in these.
Twilight got up and started to head for the new rooms, but when she got to the first one, she found nothing but a solid wall.
“This can’t be right.” Twilight said looking at the book.
Just as she turned around, she felt a tiny breeze, “Huh?” She looked closely at the wall and saw a small crack in it. She looked into the crack and saw another room on the other side, “Aha!” She backed up a little and then shot a beam at the wall.
When the dust settled, Twilight walked into the room. She could see some kind of stone artwork at the end of the room, with a very old strange drawing on it.
Twilight looked more closely at the artwork and gasped in recognition, “EVERYONE! COME QUICKLY!” She ran out of the room and went to get the others.
(Five Minutes Later)
The heroes all entered the room Twilight had discovered and saw the picture.
“But how is that possible?” Sonic asked.
The picture portrayed all the heroes, but they were in different forms.
The Mobians were in their mobian forms, while the Equestria Girls were in their human Chaos Guardian forms. And Twilight and her pony friends were also in it.
They were all facing against pony Nightmare Moon and Mobian Galaxy Nightmare Lilac.
“But this makes no sense. How are we in this portrait?” Silver said.
“Better yet, how are we all in different forms?” Shadow asked.
“I’m working on that.” Knuckles said looking at the ancient text below the portrait.
“Wait what? Since when could you read ancient Equestrian language?” Twilight asked.
“This wasn’t written by an Equestrian.” Knuckles said, “It was written by someone from Mobius. It’s in Mobian text.”
“What!” The others said shocked.
Knuckles nodded, “Clearly we’re not the first Mobians to come into your world.” Then he turned back to the text, “The artwork’s name is called, “The Fate of Dimensions.”
“The Fate of Dimensions?” Sunset said.
“Yes. It says that the heroes of dimensions battle the two nightmare bringers, to stop the eternal night from spreading across the entire universe.” Knuckles said.
“But does it tell why we’re all in different forms?” Ace asked.
“Because the dimensional barrier collapses.” A female voice said.
The heroes turned quickly and saw who it was.
A mare unicorn stood in front of the heroes. Her coat was white as snow; her eyes were sky blue; her mane and tail were black with streaks of silver in them; she wore an old gray jacket; and her cutie mark was an open book with a blue feather.
“Who are you?” Twilight asked.
“I am the creator of this artwork, and I am an oracle.” The mare said, “My name is Violet the Oracle. I have to unique ability to see tragic events of the future. For example, this future, is of you and and your many friends, fighting to save all the dimensions to stop the Nightmares’ eternal night from spreading.”
“But what did you mean by, ‘The dimensional barrier collapses’.” Tails said.
“The three dimensions you have been to are sealed away from each other by a dimension barrier, preventing them from colliding into one another. The portals you use are small bridges through the barrier, allowing you to enter them.” Violet said, “However, should those barriers collapse, the dimensions will collide, causing many anomalies.”
“When does this happen?” Sonic asked.
Violet was about to speak, but she screamed in pain as something impaled her body.
The others gasped.
A dark energy spear had struck through Violet.
The heroes heard a familiar laugh and turned their heads.
“Can’t have her spoiling everything I have planned. Where would the fun in that be?” Nightmare Galaxy Lilac laughed, “Oh well. Toodaloo.” Then she teleported away.
Violet gasped in pain as the spear disappeared from in her chest.
“Oh no. No no no no no no.” Twilight said running over to the fallen mare, “Violet please tell us. When do the dimensions collide together? We need to know.”
Violet strained, “The dimensional… barriers… are.... already… beginning to… collapse.” Then she fell silent.
Suddenly the entire ground began to shake.
“Whoa! What the hell!?” Ace shouted.
(Outside the Castle)
The heroes ran outside and looked up at the sky.
There were three moons, and they could also see Space Colony Ark in the sky too.
Suddenly the Mobians and Equestria Girls began to feel weird.
“What’s going on?” Sonic said as his body began to glow.
“My body feels strange.” Rainbow said looking at her glowing body.
Suddenly they all began to change in form and shape.
Twilight covered her eyes and gasped.
When the light died down, Twilight’s mouth hit the floor.
The Mobians were in their mobian forms, and the Equestria Girls were humans again.
“Uhg. What happened?” Shadow said placing his hand on his forehead and shaking it. Then he noticed his hand, “What the? I’m a hedgehog again? But how?”
Sonic got up and looked at himself, “Yahoo! I’m my good looking self again!”
Rainbow got up and looked at Sonic, “Yeah, but now I’m taller than you are now.”
Sonic looked at Rainbow and saw she stood over him by at least a foot and a half, “No fair.”
Then the heroes all heard two maniac laughs.
They turned quickly and gasped.
Nightmare Moon flew above them, “Fear me heroes. Your nightmare begins now!”
And then a female hedgehog rose out of the darkness in the forest. Her quills were dark blue and white, she had armor on, and she had dark blue dragon daggers for eyes, “And the darkness shall spread across the entire universe.” Nightmare Galaxy Lilac laughed, her hands engulfed in dark blue flames.