2014)5,261 words
Sisters5,424 words
Unexpected News3,730 words
Loss5,003 words
Ostracized2,579 words
Generosity2,736 words
Deals2,566 words
Party3,713 words
Mana2,392 words
Storm3,733 words
Dragons2,899 words
Reunion2,163 words
Talks2,393 words
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Talks1,315 words
Explanations1,636 words
Sister's Arrive1,730 words
Cadence1,415 words
Muffin1,707 words
Starting Over2,337 words
Epilogue1,249 words
Explanations (Alternate Dark Path)1,871 words
Darkness (Alt Ending)1,531 words
Legion1,383 words
Worry1,224 words
Through the Everfree2,463 words

Worry

“How long do we have to wait?” Twilight Velvet asked, worried for her daughter…both of her daughters. One was missing, again, and the other was pacing so much back and forth the mare was going to wear a trench in the library floor. Trixie herself was worried sick, wanting to rush off blindly after Twilight which shocked a few of the ponies in town. The Elements themselves even seemed shocked as they still believed Trixie to be a pony who was full of hot air. She loved her sister though and would walk through Tartarus itself to rescue Twilight.

Night Light was upstairs with Summer keeping an eye on the filly thankfully as Trixie and Velvet waited from word from the others. They were taking care of things in their homes while Princess Celestia had returned to Canterlot to get something that she had claimed may help with this problem. Not that any of them were sure if much could be done. If Discord himself was afraid of this…dempony…what could they really do against it?

“There isn’t much in any of these texts about demponies or this Legion.” Velvet sighed, closing another ancient tome that was kept locked up there. It was a book from Twilight’s private collection, the unicorn collecting any rare and valuable books that she could get her hooves on even since she was a filly. It didn’t matter what they were, and they had proven useful over the years as one of them was actually what led Twilight to discovering Nightmare Moon.

“I’m not a hundred percent sure we can trust Discord on this.” Trixie sighed, stopping her pacing as she looked up at her mother. “He is known as a trickster, right? Maybe Twilight is fine and just freaked out after attacking Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.”

“I wish that was the case…didn’t you feel the evil radiating off that magical spike earlier? I never felt something so purely evil before in my life.” Velvet said with a shudder. It was true, Trixie had felt it, but she wanted to deny it. She had never felt something so…scary in her entire life. “What I do know is that this Legion feeds off fear and other negative emotions. Also, from what Discord told me when I asked before he left with the Princess, Legion has contracts laying all over the world and when some pony finds one and uses it to gain power, they pay for it with a piece of their soul and a fraction of their power when they either die or get defeated. Those…payments…they make Legion stronger and stronger with each one.”

“At a great cost.” Luna said, melting from the shadows surprising both of them. “I believe I made a deal with this Legion. I found a contact long ago that used blood magic when I became Nightmare Moon. It led me to the creation of my Threstrals…and perhaps part of my anger.”

“What do you mean, Princess Luna?” Velvet asked, curious as to what the Princess was talking about.

“I’m saying, even with my anger and jealousy, I never wanted to seriously harm my sister until after I got involved with blood magic. I knew better, but the temptation was too great to be able to create a people who would…love me. No pony loved me and…all I wanted was to feel wanted…appreciated.” Luna admitted, hanging her head. “I knew how dangerous it was, my sister and myself have seen a few blood mages kill entire towns for power. A power that drove them insane. Yet I still turned to it when I found all I needed was a little blood from myself.”

“Wait…so you created the threstrals?” Trixie asked in shock, not knowing that fact. She always thought they were just some kind of pegasus that mutated from the others.

“Yes…at an attempt to create ponies who would appreciate all of the hard work I put into the night.” Luna sighed.

“I love your night, Princess, we all do. I can’t tell you how many nights my sister, niece and myself relaxed under the stars and just watched up at the night sky talking about our hopes and dreams for the future.” Trixie said, “The night sky is one of the most beautiful and most relaxing things to look at.”

“You don’t need to flatter me.” Luna said, blushing a little at the praise.

“I’m not, Princess, I’m only speaking the truth.” Trixie said, beginning to wonder if she said something wrong when she noticed how Luna was wiping away tears from her eyes.

“Thank you, but we need to meet up with the others. My sister just returned with the Elements of Harmony.” Luna said.

“Wait…I thought the Elements were sacrificed to save the Tree of Harmony a few years ago.” Velvet said, remembering when Discord came clean about what happened and Princess Cadence returned from the Crystal Empire to get them and bring them to Ponyville where the girls took them, and Twilight’s, to the tree where Discord instructed them on how to save the tree.

It made sense now, how Discord knew what to do with it. It was supposed Starswirl the Bearded who took the damaged Rainbow of Light and separated it into six Elements of Harmony, the seventh being too damaged to salvage from the original Rainbow. If it was true that Discord was Starswirl, then that would explain his knowledge of the Tree of Harmony and the Elements of harmony.

“They were, but my sister had some of our most brightest create duplicates of them. They aren’t as powerful, but they should amplify the bond between the Bearers and the Elements embedded in the tree to give them close to the level of power they had before. There is only one problem…we don’t have a pony to wield the Element of Magic. We were hoping that when we got to Twilight we could give it to her and hope that being back here helped restore the bond between the girls enough to use them.” Luna explained.

“I guess it’s a start.” Velvet sighed, “What are we waiting for?”

“No.” Trixie said, turning to look at Velvet while refusing to back down as her mother gave her a look of shock. “You aren’t coming with us.”

“I will not sit here while one of my daughters is out there in danger.” Velvet growled out.

“Mom…I…I do want you there with us…but I need you to stay here. If worse comes to worse, I want you to take care of Summer.” Trixie said, her eyes tearing a little as she realized what she said. Her legs wanted to let go, but she willed them to remain strong in front of her mother. She knew there was a very good possibility that some of them may not come back from this if this Legion was truly as powerful and evil as that. She was afraid that if any of them were to not come back, she was sure that she would be one of them. She wasn’t going to come back without her sister, and that was final.

Author's Note:

IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ AT LEAST THE FIRST PART

First, thank you Digi-lover517, Whitewolf_Stormrunner, dawn seeker, and Harwick
For replying on my blog and helping with some questions I had about some things from MLP. This chapter may be a little short, but I will try to make the next few chapter longer and hopefully better.

I’m sorry this chapter was so short, but I wanted to get something out to let you know I’m still around after my little trip (which I put in the author notes in the last chapter when I fixed it). I felt I probably needed to explain something as I get the feeling that a lot of people are thinking I’m basing Twilight off Nightmare Moon and being her successor. I’m not. I’m making her a dempony/demon based of a Nightmare such as the picture below.

She will have the powers of Legion for the most part which gives her some of the powers of any creature Legion had contacted with throughout the years and collected on. Some of them do include Nightmare Moon, but for the most part, being a Nightmare already gives Twilight some of those abilities except for the turning into gas thing. She is physically much stronger than Nightmare Moon ever was, and magically probably is to. In a way, she can be considered a Mary Sue by MLP standards for the moment, though she will have many flaws and weaknesses. One of which, as shown earlier, Twilight is partialily separate from the Nightmare. She is more or less possessed by a part of Legion and is controlling her in an attempt to free himself.

I hope that makes sense, and everybody/pony enjoys what’s to come.

Now, on a less important matter not really dealing with the story, I thought I would ask if anyone knows if it is okay to post a story as a graveyard for scenes from possible future stories to get opinions on if they seem like a good idea or not. I plan to write a scene of two after I finish this story between working on my other two active ones as a way to do something when I feel a little like I don’t feel like working on either and just need something a little different to do. If anyone likes the scenes and would like to flesh them out into a full story that would be great.

The scenes that seem to be the most well liked I will probably write as well since when I finish this story. I want to keep one pretty much pure MLP story and one possible crossover going at a time since I admit I find it hard to commit working on one story at a time sometimes as I just need a change to help get over writer’s block when I get it at times. I’m also hoping doing different things with this graveyard idea with ideas I got from the cartoons I bought and I’m still going through. Sadly more discs than I thought aren’t going to work, but some of the stuff like Pole Position is really good in a way yet it doesn’t seem to be available any longer. Most of the scenes in the graveyard is going to be from ideas that spawned from these cartoons with the exception of a few that will be crossed over with a Japanese series called Kamen Rider.

Below is Youtube intros for a few of the cartoons I have ideas already forming for, and honestly some of them will just be experiements to see if I can actually make a decent story out of it while others are ones I really have ideas that just seem to be forming on their own. Please let me know what you think about crossovers with them. Some of them are admittedly ones my GF likes more than me (I find it hard to admit that I like PreCure a lot...but it is one my GF wanted me to add to the list along with another of the ones she wanted in SheRa)