Afterwards with Anim distracted of contemplating the same question over and over again, “Who are you?” to himself, The Book as he calls himself is trapped into a magical bubble. The one who made the bubble is Celestia, slowly walking toward the floating-talking book; carefully moving to it, using her spell thinking it will keep… it inside. “You have no reason of fearing me. My power disappeared into the void crystal, the second that Anim activated its effect,” said The Book.
“Nevertheless, you are still a threat whether you still have that power or not. I knew from the start that what we saw in your pages was nothing but pure hate and evil… so why are you really doing this?” said Celestia, staring deeply at The Book.
The Book was silent, thinking it won’t answer but, a sudden chill appears on Celestia’s back. Shivering she realizes she’s getting the shivers from The Book, who looked as if it were staring at Celestia, or her soul in particular. “Funny… you’re able to control the sun, but the color of your aura is different from what your abilities are,” said The Book.
“Look here you creepy book!” said Rainbow, between it and Celestia. “I don’t know what Anim’s got to do with… you, but if you don’t spill, I’m going to rip every single page off your dusty cover.”
“Words hurt, but don’t kill. Now may I speak to someone more… competent,” said The Book, insulting Rainbow.
“Why you…” said Rainbow.
“Come on Rainbow, we’ll get our chance, for now don’t do anything reckless,” said Applejack.
Grumbling Rainbow trots away, while somepony else… decides to speak to The Book. “If you’ve been here ever since you arrived at Equestria, then… you must know me then,” said Mina, staring.
“Ah yes, the infamous Minalia Xis. Sister to Dakal Xis, and daughter to the legendary warrior, Averalis Xis… it’s, a pleasure to meet you face to face,” said The Book. “And indeed… I have been here this whole time, and the things I’ve seen are how you say… interested me at the most.”
“I would’ve of sense your presence when I first came to this world and—”
“And yet you didn’t, why you ask?" said The Book, finishing her sentence. "Well to answer to your question, you could say that I’ve… evolved per-say. I have the ability to manipulate my aura… even making it completely vanish since I’m a non-living being.”
“You cocky son of…” said Mina.
“That’s enough!” shouted Celestia, silencing the two. “I don’t care what sort of history you have with this… thing, but it’s something that’s a threat to my ponies and the whole world itself. That’s why we are going to seal it… with the other, monsters.”
“Monster, you say? Excuse you princess, but the way you describe me is lacking in… imagination,” said The Book.
“What do you mean?” said Celestia, with an annoyed tone.
The Book, even though without no facial expressions to show, felt as if it were grinning back at everypony. “I’m part realm guardian, in proper terms… I’m truly immortal, and not only that but capable of annihilating all of you,” said The Book.
A wicked grin was felt from The Book, even though faceless. Disturbed by how calmed The Book is in its situation, a sudden calmness appeared when The Book stopped acting this way. “Alas… I can’t do that. Not because I can’t, but because I shouldn’t, for his will is my own too,” said The Book, looking toward somepony.
Twilight noticed the sudden sense that The Book was staring at somepony. Looking around who it was, it was nevertheless but Anim, who still was on the ground… questioning himself still. “He may not be the real Anim… but his close to what was… the original Anim. Yet I still believe him to be my master, no matter who he is. As so, I follow his actions and decisions… until things became… overwhelming,” said The Book.
“Overwhelming?” asked Twilight.
“This Anim, were to know his nothing more but a clone of the original… would shatter what sanity remains with him. Not only had that to happen, but to know the original Anim died months ago just made the situation worse. However the main reason of his… recent past breakdowns isn’t that per-say,” sad The Book. “Over time… Anim’s mind has been slowly degrading into insanity, the reason to this is that… as I said his a clone, and with clones made out of pure aura, they don’t last long… but I forcefully let him last longer than the average clone, costing him his own mind.”
“His no clone… his Anim. Whether his fake or not, his my friend, we're all his friends, and that’ll never change!” said Twilight.
“You’re correct, but that won’t help. Anim is realizing his own existence, questioning if his really who he thinks he is. Your friend here is slowing descending into the land of madness, and then once that happens… poof, he'll vanish into pure aura,” said The Book. “There is no hope for him.”
After listening to The Book, Celestia's guards take The Book away to a secured area. Whilst leaving, everypony else watch Anim knelt down to the ground, shaking ever more over time. “Will he be fine Twilight?” asked Fluttershy, worried.
“I don't know… I wish we could do something but… I just don't know,” said Twilight.
“We got to try something, we can't just leave him like this,” said Rainbow.
“AJ… Anim will be fine, will he?” asked Applebloom, shaking AJ's leg.
Applejack simply looks at Applebloom then back at Anim. With a worried look, she's unsure what to say, but tries her best to be honest. “We'll try our best to do what we can, so don't worry,” said Applejack, smiling.
Applebloom nuzzled against Applejack, while heading back to her friends. Afterward Applejack joins Twilight and the others, approaching Anim closely. Twilight goes near Anim realizing how much his changed after what The Book has said. Anim's fur was darker than his usual mahogany color, an almost purplish color. His mane, became darker than their red and blue colors, but what was really disturbing… was the look of his eyes. Anim's eyes dilated with his pupils as small as a dot, as he shook more and more and more viciously. Twilight then places his hoof on Anim's shoulder and suddenly, Anim stopped shaking, but still staring at the ground.
“Anim… whatever that, thing has said… don’t listen to it. No matter how much the truth may be revealed, or who you really are, you’re still our friend,” said Twilight, comforting Anim.
After Twilight finished speaking, two minutes of silence, nopony spoke a word… until… Anim moved. It was a sudden motion of his head, as it tilted to the left, but what made Twilight noticed even more… was the sudden familiar aura she sensed from Anim. It was the same essence she felt when Anim had caught them reading his more sensitive deeper parts of his journal. Anim then turned his head, staring deep into Twilight’s eyes; in return Twilight was frightened by the look and loosened her grip on Anim. What she saw in the eyes of Anim were similar to that situation before… however, this time his eyes were more violent and wild—as if it were of a wild beast. Then after the long silence, a low sound came out of Anim’s mouth, which made him sound even more beastly. “Heh heh heh heheheheh ehheeh ehhH HAHAHH HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAH HAHAHAAHAH AHAHAHAHAH AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~!” screamed Anim.
Anim’s eyes stared insanely toward the sky, his hooves outstretched around him. Everypony didn’t know or knew what was happening, continuing to stare. After Anim finished screaming and laughing, he slowly moved his gaze at Twilight. “His eyes… those eyes… are the eyes of a beast,” thought Twilight.
“Indeed they are the eyes of a beast,” said Anim, answering Twilight’s thought.
Twilight's eyes widened in surprise, thinking Anim guessed what Twilight was thinking. However she knew this wasn’t the Anim she knew, his voice sounded more demented, demonic, and psychotic. Anim moved close toward Twilight, her friends try to stop Anim before he did anything reckless. Then suddenly… time itself suddenly… stopped, Twilight who could still move looked around and realized her friends were in some sort of state that caused all of them to be paused in motion. “What… What did you do to my friends!?” said Twilight, moving to one of her friends. “Rainbow, are you okay?”
“Okay, yes. But she can’t hear you, however,” said Anim, smiling sadistically.
“What you mean?” Twilight asked.
“We are in a world that only a specified few can be in. For you in this case I’m allowing. As you must know, this isn’t Anim your speaking to… you can call me Nightmare Anim or Nightmare. This world is known as the Nightmare Realm, a world for beings who’re made of pure Nightmare aura, like yours truly,” said N. Anim.
Twilight was still confused about what was happening, but something about this situation seemed… too familiar. “To be more specific about what’s going on right now… you remember the time when Anim drank too much at that New Year’s party… well just like me, Anim has another entity living within him. I don’t know the origins of this entity but, we’ve shared the body of Anim time to time, he goes by the name of Snakes… you remember, the one who kidnapped you,” said N. Anim, still smiling sadistically.
When the mention of that party was mentioned, Twilight wished for that memory to be gone… but when she did remember, Twilight did realized how different Anim had become after those events. “If this Snakes pony was the one in control of Anim back then… why aren't you in control back then, but now instead?” asked Twilight.
“An excellent question… for a creature that seems to lack intelligence,” said N. Anim, insultingly. “You see, either of us can only take control of Anim, under certain dire situations. For Snakes, he can do this when Anim is under complete unconsciousness or is in a deep coma. This however can’t be done if his sleeping, under severe conditions, or is in a state of mind in which his separated from his body… Now, as for me, I can take control of Anim… in more… direr situations that may inflict major mental damage toward him.”
Twilight wasn’t sure at first what N. Anim meant, but remembering about what exactly happened these last few hours… Twilight realizes what he meant, which caused a grin on his face. “You mean…” said Twilight, horrified.
“Indeed. I’m able to possess Anim through more… darker emotions. Anger, hopeless, isolated, ruthless, vengeance, confused, and even… depressed. He has broken down, piece by piece, slowly descending into madness, and you can do nothing to stop it!” said N. Anim, laughing again.
Twilight was sick to her stomach, watching this… thing take control of her friend. Getting more and more angrier of the sight of her friend like this, Twilight shouts back at N. Anim. “YOU LEAVE MY FRIEND'S BODY RIGHT NOW, You… you… MONSTER!” screamed Twilight, anger showing on her face.
N. Anim stopped laughing, and instantaneously appeared in front of Twilight. An empty stare showed on his face, looking right back at Twilight. After staring for three seconds, N. Anim spoke once more. “You think, I’m the monster… you have no idea, what I… no… what we been through. My entire existence I’ve been born with Anim, since his childhood… you could say I am Anim. It was until somewhere around his teen years, I finally awoken… and to see how far his grown now… you could say I’m proud. From these many years I’ve watched… as our life goes by, unable to do anything to help Anim,” said N. Anim, staring to the sky. “Again and again and again and again… I’ve been the side of him that kept all that negative energy… so again…”
Twilight blinks for one second and N. Anim disappears in front of her sight. She felt a cold chill behind her… turning around it was N. Anim, staring with a creepy smile. “What makes you think I’m the monster?” asked N. Anim.
Before Twilight could scream, a sudden purple mist surrounded her. She felt as if she was being lifted off the air, with her throat being crushed by the claw of a beast. Looking, she realized N. Anim was using his own magic to hold Twilight in the air. Moving her to his eye level, the two stare into each other’s eyes until… Twilight felt a strong sting of pain to her stomach. “You can’t call something a monster… if it was born to be what it is now,” said N. Anim, grinning.
Twilight noticed time started to flow back… and her friends began to move once more. Before she could warn her friends to run, she fell unconscious from the sudden hit she received. Once everypony continuing to run toward Twilight, Rainbow noticed Anim wasn’t where he was, and felt an immense feeling from her side. Rainbow was sent flying toward Applejack, where the two slammed against a tree. Unsure what was happening, Rarity stopped immediately, only to be sent to the air, and back to the ground. Pinkie realized what was happening, and ran straight to Fluttershy. “Fluttershy run, something is here and it’s taking everypony ou—”
Pinkie then stopped in place, and trembled to her knees as her eyes closed. Behind her was Anim, who looked right toward Fluttershy. Unable to run because of fear, Fluttershy only stares around her already fallen friends… taken out one by one. Anim began trotting slowly to Fluttershy, with eyes of a beast, hungering… for something… that Fluttershy didn’t want to know. She remembered about the strange drawing she and her friends saw when they looked through Anim’s journal. The drawing was Anim… and all her friends, unconscious on the ground one by one. Fluttershy put two together and realized that, the drawing was foretelling the future. Before she could run, Anim appeared in front of her… as the two continued to stare at one another. “A-Anim… please… if your there… stop… please stop,” said Fluttershy, stuttering and shaking.
Fluttershy’s legs let lose, collapsing to the ground. Anim inched closer to her face, breathing deeply in her scent… which made Fluttershy squeaked. Fluttershy knew that the end would come for her… but instead of that, Anim wasn’t in front of her. Looking around, she saw Anim who was sitting near her… meditating. Anim sighed, and chuckled to himself… that Twilight was right about something. “I’m no monster… but I’m not Anim either too,” said N. Anim, talking through Anim.
Suddenly Anim’s pupils grew back to their normal size. Slowly breathing in and out, Anim felt a strong migraine form on his head. His heart throbbing, it’s pace slowing down, Anim looks around seeing the horror he… or Nightmare has brought. Turning to Fluttershy, with a saddened look, Fluttershy was confused on what has happened. “Uhm… Anim… are you, okay now?” asked Fluttershy, slowly moving up to him.
Wanting to speak, Anim pauses and simply nods back slowly. Fluttershy relaxed herself, helping Anim up. The two looked at their friends, worrying if their hurt, but seeing Pinkie twitch a little to only stand back up. “Owie… that felt like that one time, when Derpy tried making candies with me… and I taste tested one of them,” said Pinkie.
Pinkie was helped up by Fluttershy, while Anim went toward to help Applejack and Rainbow up. Once they were up, their injuries weren’t as major as it was thought to be. “I don’t know what’s worse, having buckets of apples fall on you. Or that nightmare where Big Mac was in a mare’s dress,” said Applejack, shuddering.
“Great AJ, now I’m going have nightmares for the next two weeks,” said Rainbow, sticking her tongue out.
“Your welcome,” said Applejack, smiling.
AJ and Rainbow saw Anim standing in front of them, smiling back. Quickly going to a defensive pose, Fluttershy quickly intervenes to stop. “Wait, Anim wasn’t himself… he won’t hurt anypony,” said Fluttershy, standing in between them.
AJ and Rainbow stopped, and realized that sudden tussle wasn’t as bad as they thought. Even though it seemed to cause a lot of physical harm to them, they’d actually feel fine. The only issue was that; their muscles seem to ache from the sudden beat-down from Anim… however… “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” screamed Rarity.
“What’s wrong Rarity, did you break something!?” said Applejack.
“Indeed I have… my hooficure is ruined, and I just did this recently,” said Rarity, upset. “You didn’t need to be some rough darling.”
Once Applejack heard this, she completely didn’t give a darn about Rarity completely. Moving her focus back to Anim, he went toward Twilight who was lying on the ground. Anim moved his head near Twilight’s mouth, carefully listening, and then he heard her breathing. “She’s okay… I guess I didn’t do much harm,” said Anim.
Anim sadly sat down, upset that this all happened without thinking of the consequences that could come. Twilight opened her eyes, and blinked a few times to see Anim sitting beside her. Slowly standing on all fours, she looked at Anim, who was busy staring at the ground. “Anim?” asked Twilight, quietly.
Anim looked up at Twilight, saddened that all of this happened. Blaming himself of it all, Anim looks back at the ground, closing himself off from everypony else. “Please… I don’t want to hurt anypony else,” said Anim.
Thinking she would listen, instead Twilight hugs Anim in a comforting way. Surprising Anim, he sits frozen of what’s happening before him now. Everypony else joins in and hugs with Anim and Twilight, the friends embrace with each other, even after the events that had happen now. “Uh guys… this is nice and all but, could you give me some breathing space, please,” said Anim.
Everypony step back, a little embarrassed… well except for Pinkie who was happy for the group hug. “See hugs help everypony,” said Pinkie, giggling.
“I suppose it does,” said Twilight. “What I don’t understand, is why we weren’t… that harmed in the process.”
“Nightmare can be… too much when he solves a problem. However he won’t go too far… you could say, he can be sweet sometimes,” said Anim.
“Nightmare?” asked Applejack, confused.
“Do you mean like Nightmare Moon or something Anim,” said Rainbow.
“Not exactly… Nightmare is a part of me, but can be his own thing… it’s like your sharing a body with another mind. Well like that, except include sharing it with two other entities,” said Anim, rubbing his head.
“Oh you poor thing,” said Rarity. “I hope dealing with those two isn’t a burden for you.”
“Sometimes… but you get used to it…” said Anim. “Now… about that floating book?”
Everypony looked at one another, afraid that Anim might have a lingering hate for that book. Twilight approaches Anim, but he gives a reassuring nod his fine. “Just dandy Twinkles… kind of disoriented, but dandy… after my recent breakdown, I can’t let myself go back to the way I was before. I understand that now, and I won’t return back… not now, not ever again,” said Anim.
“I’m happy to know, that you made peace to yourself,” said Twilight, smiling.
The moment now made Anim happy, until things started on only getting worse. After the sweet moment, Fluttershy coughs to catch everyponies attention. “Not to be rude… but, what do we do now?” asked Fluttershy.
“Now… let’s go find us a book,” said Anim.
1750hours, Ponyville, somewhere in town
Anim looks around to see most of the townsponies returned back to their usual lives. Ahead he can see most of his friends, all upset of today’s recent events. Trixie sniffed, and noticed the Mane 6 heading her way… but with them surprised her more. With them was Anim… fine, and still intact, her expression was a mixture of relief and anger. “Trixie… thought you were dead… DON’T EVER DO THAT TO TRIXIE!” shouted Trixie, stomping toward Anim.
“And it’s nice to meet you, Little Star. I’d love to reunite… but did you see a floating-talking book come by here?” asked Anim.
Trixie was still mad and didn’t answer, instead Derpy answered, while trying to keep Trixie form not tearing Anim apart. “We don’t know… but I think,” said Derpy, struggling to keep Trixie still. “Mina might know… we last… saw her with Luna… by the train station.”
“Thanks… now I need to—”
Before Anim could finish, a sudden force struck him. At first he thought it was Trixie, who would proceed knocking the lights out of him. Instead… he heard three sobbing voices, looking up it was the CMC. “We… thought, you were… dead,” said Applebloom, tearing up.
“Ye-yeah, you could have gotten hurt!” said Sweetie Belle, crying.
“Don’t do something that crazy!” shouted Scootaloo, keeping herself from shedding a tear.
“I won’t, I won’t… now can we stop the waterworks, it’s kind of wanting to make me cry to,” said Anim.
The CMC got off and wiped their tears; afterwards Anim patted them on the head and said. “Now… I know what I did was risky, but at least we caught what we were after… but now, I need to finish off with a few more things first,” said Anim.
“Now hold on one second.”
Anim turned around, and it was Doctor Whooves who stopped Anim. Unsure if the Doc will stop Anim or not, the two stared at one another… until one of the either began to speak. “Doctor Whooves… seems your plan didn’t work,” said Anim, grinning.
“It should of, but it didn’t,” said Doctor Whooves.
“Well now you’re both, re-acquainted, can we not do this right now,” said Derpy.
After a few more seconds of staring, Doctor Whooves responded back once more. “Now I don’t trust you… but considering that your plan worked… I’ll let you lead, for now,” said Doctor Whooves.
“I can’t tell if that was a threat or a compliment,” said Anim, sarcastically. “But, yes… your only chance would be me.”
Doctor Whooves sighed, and followed Anim with everypony else following too. Trixie calmed down and stopped thinking of knocking out Anim… a little. “I still don’t understand how you two are a thing?” asked Derpy.
“Trixie asks the same thing too… but he and Trixie just are what we are…” said Trixie. “And you could say, Trixie love’s him for that.”
Derpy noticed Trixie smile for a small glimpse but, went back to her serious look. Now with everypony behind Anim, he spotted Luna speaking to Mina. Luna noticed Anim… but Mina didn’t bat an eye toward Anim. “I’m glad you’re okay… after what the Book said, I thought we’d never get you back to your usual self,” said Luna.
“Yeah… your usual self,” said Mina, not looking at Anim.
Anim can sense the hint of hate in Mina’s voice… but to whom she hated was what Anim wondered. Finally she turned to face Anim, and that’s when Anim saw just how much hatred was in her eyes. Mina knew Anim well… well enough to have a good reason to why she calls him, "father". "You know… that ‘book’ was very insistent on what it said. It made me think; about how that it was yours originally… that it was your book and all. But now I wonder that, if what… The Book his name right... well if what he said is correct… that you’re nothing but a clone… a copy. So please, if this isn’t true… please just stop… I don’t want to lose you,” said Mina.
Everypony stood still, not doing anything from persuading my choice. Twilight, who didn’t move, but spoke to me, carefully asked what I would do. “Anim… whatever you’re going to say… I won’t agree, but I won’t stop. It’s your choice in the end,” said Twilight, stepping back a little.
Nodding at Twilight, Anim and Mina met eye to eye. Mina waited for her answer, and if she thought what it would be the answer she expects, Mina would tackle him to the ground. But after twenty seconds of absolute silence, Mina couldn’t wait for the answer she wanted. “Well… will you stop, or do I need to stop you myself?!” said Mina, agitated.
Anim stood there for a good long second, and then spoke… what came out his mouth then shocked Mina more than today’s recent events. “By ‘lose you’, don’t you mean lose you… again,” said Anim.
Mina stood still speechless, not knowing whether to do what she had promised to do. Simply shocked out of fear, and doubt Mina didn’t want to believe… that Anim, her Anim is truly gone. “No… please no… why, why is this happening to me… I lost family, friends… and now you! Please let this be some nightmare… just another dream or something… anything than this!” screamed Mina, kneeling down.
Mina broke to tears, like Anim her world was shattering. Knowing that Anim… the brother and father she once loved and cared for dead for so long, has finally caught up to her. Lying to her-self that the truth was simply another rumor, nothing more… but this rumor would soon come to haunt her once more. Broken and sobbing on the ground Mina barely remembers that Anim is before her… or what remains of the Anim she knew. Kneeling down toward Mina, Anim soothes Mina, hugging and calming her down. “Hey, I might not be the real Anim… but I’m still your big bro right… so no matter what we’re family and that’ll never change,” said Anim, closing his eyes.
After a few moments of silence, Mina quietly wiped her tears and hugged back. Afterwards the two quietly talked together and returned with the others. “You okay now Mina, it was hard for you finding out but, we’ll be here for you,” said Rarity.
“Yeah, so don’t give up now,” said Rainbow. “We been through a lot, but we got each other.”
“Let’s do a party after this, the biggest one ever!” said Pinkie, hopping.
“Yeah, I’ll bring one my best pie recipes too after all of this,” said Applejack.
Mina wiped a small tear, and responded back. “Sure… that’d be nice,” said Mina.
“It’s good you’re cheered up, but I think I need a little talk with… her royal highness,” said Anim, referring to Celestia.
Luna noticed the slight angry tone in his voice, intervening she stops Anim from doing anything. Instead of stopping, Anim trots pass Luna only for her to follow behind, leaving everypony else to themselves. “Now Anim I know things have been… a little overwhelming but, I can’t let you simply go up to her and let you do your way now,” said Luna.
“I could say the same to her too. There are other rulers in this land, and I wonder why none of them ever questioned Celestia's methods… letting her soldiers, diplomats, and others who follow under her rule, handle problems she should be doing. Now I understand that Twilight was sent here… but what about the problems she had to deal with while being here… for example, she left in her care a random pony who appeared out of nowhere in one of the most unlikeliest situations,” said Anim, referring to himself. “And just tell me, what makes you think I’d stop now?”
“Because I’m your friend!” shouted Luna.
Anim paused for one second, but then continued to trot again only to leave one final response to Luna. “I know… and I don’t want to lose another one,” said Anim.
1825hours, Ponyville, Train Station
Celestia was continuing to interrogate with The Book, thinking it has more plans than simply more than her apprentice. After countless minutes of using any possible method of making The Book talk, Celestia hasn’t gotten a single worthwhile word out of The Book. “What are you really after? It can’t be just my apprentice, Twilight Sparkle,” said Celestia, staring toward The Book.
The Book was inside a small bubble sphere, it can still move in mid-air but only near the princess. Floating around her, it responded with more useless information. “If I told you, you’d simply send me to some eternal magical cage of some sort,” said The Book. “Besides… I doubt you even would understand what I’m really planning.”
Feeling insulted, Celestia was about to light The Book on fire. When a sudden all too familiar voice interrupts her, from turning this talking object into char. “Now I wouldn’t go and do that… he is a part of me, and he isn’t lying,” said Anim, knowing The Book more than himself.
Celestia turned around to see both Anim and Luna. Luna kept to herself not talking but observing, while Anim and Celestia had a short but quiet glare at one another. “Hello Anim…” said Celestia coldly.
“Hello Princess Celestia, having trouble with your little reading session,” said Anim, grinning. “Sadly it seems this book isn’t your kind of reading material.”
“Funny… but shouldn’t you be realizing that you’re a simple manifestation made by this… abomination,” said Celestia, looking back at The Book.
“Now, now, there’s no need for violence… or insults. But back to me, so you have calmed down after you’re recent… ‘breakdown’, I did felt you going berserk there for a second,” said The Book.
“Indeed, and I need to ask a very important question,” said Anim, trotting pass Celestia.
Reaching to stop Anim, Luna stops her sister and convinces her to stop and watch. “When you made me… was it simply to live a life… a new life, with these beings. So that maybe, I don’t come back to my original… our original home, that nothing happened. That it was all a bad dream?” said Anim. “Or maybe… you were busy to make something else, while I was the distraction?”
The Book, was silent, either thinking of a response or Anim broke what left of a mind is in that thing. Instead Anim did successfully break through, but received a different type of result. “Yes… for both questions… I was at first thinking that maybe we can start a life here… that I would stay hidden,” said The Book, stopping for a small second. “However, some sudden… obstacles showed up, first was that possibility of you regaining your memories of what happened ‘that day’. The second was when that purple mare… Twilight Sparkle started getting involved with your past, and slowly learning things that you don’t even know. Thirdly was, when I sensed that Mina was in this world, and with her she might put two together and realized what was really happening. Then finally… was when that… ‘princess’ gotten nosy and decided to look through my mind.”
Anim and Luna were both confused for a second, but The Book made a small magical finger pointing at Celestia. Then Anim remembered… a couple of months ago, Celestia and the Mane 6 looked through his book, specifically the journal part of his book. When Anim noticed the holographic-looking images that were above the room, it then made sense what that was. “You mean that was your… your mind and thoughts?!” said Anim, surprised.
“In short… yes, and no. Back then I was thinking of possible situations that’d happen in the future, I ended up with two possible endings. The first was you ‘finishing’ off the Mane 6—”
Everypony was surprised when hearing that, so Celestia used her magic to hold Anim in place, but The Book finished with his sentence. “However that didn’t happen, since you spared Fluttershy, and didn’t do any mortal or fatal damage to the others,” said The Book, giving off a noticeable glare at Celestia.
Luna placed a hoof on her sister, while Celestia at the same time let go her magical grip at Anim. Taking a small quick breath, Anim thought for a second his life would end right there. The Book continued with the second possible outcome. “The second outcome… which everypony was present in was more… possible than the first. In it, Anim was in a sort of state… this state you seen before when he was trying to see through the past. This state is called, ‘the Void form’ where Anim is practically at his most powerfulness… in fact this is his true form and might be considered his god form. Now in the outcome it showed Anim using his abilities, gathering all the shards of the void crystal which were the shattered pieces of one big meteor all across Equestria, at one precise location… Ponyville,” said The Book.
Luna and Celestia were too speechless to respond with any kind of excuse to silence The Book. Anim however was still listening carefully, not fazed the slightest. “From what I can gather, Anim was sucking all the void’s energy inside him… as to why I don’t know but there is only one think I know that would happen from this… Anim would use that energy to cause ‘the end of a world’ type of situation. Once I saw this, I immediately began my plan to stop this from happening. My plan was to silence any who knew too much of Anim’s past, then I would possess Anim a small moment and escape off into another faraway land, where we would live in some unknown land or country that has zero connections to Equestria… but that plan failed when Anim noticed my aura,” said The Book.
Anim who still was silent and unfazed… spoke, and it both surprised the princesses and The Book. “Then I won’t let that happen but not by leaving… instead I’ll be sealed in some prison…” said Anim.
“I won’t accept that decision.”
Everypony turned around, from behind a corner of the train station was Twilight who wasn’t with the others and followed Anim here. She heard everything from the beginning, and Anim knew she was here but decided to let her hear. “Twilight, how long you were listening to our conversation,” said Luna, gulping.
“Long enough,” said Twilight, blatantly. “Anim I don’t care if some end of a world would come from this outcome, we’d find a way. I won’t let you be caged and chained to some far off eternal prison. I’m your friend, and whether Celestia asked me to watch over you… these last months with you, we became close friends, and been through so much… so I won’t let this happen to you without my saying.”
“That’s why I don’t want you to worry for me… I know we became such good friends for this long but… I don’t want to lose another friend, not another pony I care for to be lost to my own arrogance… I’ll imprison myself, even if my friends never see me again… I’ll be okay as long you, and everypony are safe,” said Anim.
Before Twilight began to respond, The Book and Anim felt a strong wave of energy go by. Meanwhile back with everypony else, outside the train station's vicinity, Mina felt this wave of energy too, which caused her to shake and sweat. “Mina what’s wrong?” asked Applebloom.
“I-I… don’t know but… I feel like something very, very bad is going to come,” said Mina, staring off the distance.
Inside Anim stared at The Book, and both knew what was coming and what that was. “You felt that didn’t you,” said Anim.
“Felt what?” asked everypony.
The Book was quiet for a few seconds then responded, which shook everypony into a state of fear. “That outcome I mentioned before… it might be coming to fruition quicker than I expected,” said The Book, a tone of fear showing.
1850hours, Ponyville, near the meteor close to Ponyville
“So what does the princess want with that talking book anyway?” asked a guard.
“I don’t know… she mentioned something about wanting to know more about what’s been happening today,” said the other guard. “After all this… I’m taking a nice long cold one back at Canterlot.”
“You said it, after all this I don’t want to deal with any more of this sh—”
A sudden earthquake shook causing the two guards to collapse to the ground. After the earthquake subsided, the two guards rose up… only to turn around with their jaws dangling in the air. Before their eyes was the massive meteor piece that they were ordered to guard… floating in the air, as pieces of debris fall to the ground… overshadowing the whole town in a massive darkness. “And my day just got worse,” said the second guard.
“We don’t get paid enough for this…” said the first guard, dropping his spear.
The end of world is coming… but who started it. The void crystal has awoken and is planning the one think it knows what to do… absorbing all of Equestria's aura and more. All life will seize to exist, from this behemoth of mass destruction. Slowing rebuilding itself as pieces of itself that are scattered across Equestria, gather at Ponyville… just how will Anim stop the oncoming ending of this realm… for how can you stop something, that isn’t alive.