Terror in Equestria 8: A New Threat

by StormLuna

Epilogue: Re-establishing World Leadership

After Brevity and Colgate departed and headed back to the world that they were going to build, the ponies again began to talk among one another but there was one pony who knew that there were still pressing matters that had to be handled, re-establishing leadership across the world.

She raised her voice and began, "Attention everypony, may I have your attention?"

The crowd went silent waiting for LaurFa to speak. Once she had everypony's attention she began, "Alright, now that Twilight Sparkle has been returned to us and most of the ponies that lived in this world over a thousand years ago have returned, we have an important issue that must be discussed."

Galaxia asked, "What is it LaurFa?"

LaurFa replied, "Right now many of the world's nations either have dark Alicorn and changeling officers running them or they have no form of leadership and that must be taken care of. I think we need to decide who will rule where."

The first to say anything was Celestia, "With Equestria no longer being in the state it had been for over 5,000 years, I am wondering if I along with Luna and Twilight will be ruling like we were a long time ago?"

LaurFa replied, "Perhaps but Luna does have leadership experience and I was going to ask her about something."

Luna asked, "What is it LaurFa?"

LaurFa replied, "Luna, at one time you were a good, competent queen in the Equine Empire and I am wondering, would you want to stay here in Equestria and co-rule with your sister and Twilight or would you rather have your own nation to rule over like you did once?"

Luna stood there in thought for a minute before responding, "LaurFa, I know I stayed because I wanted to be close to my sister again but I will admit, I do like the idea of being Queen Luna again so I will gladly accept your offer of leadership in the Equine Empire."

LaurFa replied, "Good. Now that the Equine Empire is taken care of, we still have Saddle Arabia, the Crystal Empire and since it has been so long since Colgate nuked it, Neigh Zealand should be ready to be re-populated."

Galaxia asked, "What about Alicorn Island?"

LaurFa replied, "I have decided that I shall return to ruling there after a 5,000 year absence."

Galaxia simply nodded knowing that she and Cosmos would no longer rule in the place they had been for a millennium. LaurFa saw curious looks on many ponies' faces, especially those who had leadership experience. She turned to Galaxia and Cosmos and asked, "I know it isn't Alicorn Island but given that you did at one point rule in Saddle Arabia, what would you think about returning to your roles there?"

In unison the two nodded yes. LaurFa continued, "Alright, Saddle Arabia is taken care of." She looked out and asked, "Alright, now who wants to take on the enormous task of not just ruling a country, but getting it re-established? Who wants to rule over Neigh Zealand?"

There was one pony who had been a second in command for ages, one who always hoped he could rule but knew that as long as his parents were alive, that would never be, Prince Blue Star. He was a bit nervous as to how his father would react but he wanted it bad enough he raised his hoof and said, "LaurFa your Majesty, I will take on Neigh Zealand."

Not only did White Magick gasp in shock, but so did his entire army. White Magick gasped, "Really Son? You wish to leave our realm and take on this endeavor?"

Blue Star replied, "Yes Father, I have been your second in command and heir to throne but since both you and Mother are Alicorns, I know I will never become king." He paused for a minute and continued, "Father, perhaps this opportunity has presented itself to me for a reason, perhaps this is my destiny."

White Magick could see where his son was coming from and realized that perhaps he was right. He embraced Blue Star and said, "Well Son, both your mother and I will miss you but I shall give you my blessing to taken on this endeavor." He developed a grin on his face and continued, "King Blue Star of Neigh Zealand, that actually does have a good ring to it."

Blue Star embraced his father and replied, "Thank you Father!"

White Magick gave his son a smile back and said, "Son, I know you are a king now BUT you better keep in touch!"

Blue Star replied, "Of course Father, you know I would never cut ties with you!"

Brevity interrupted, "Alright, now we will just need to get ponies to move to Neigh Zealand so you will have more than just two unpopulated islands to govern." She took a short breath and continued, "Ok, Neigh Zealand, Saddle Arabia, the Equine Empire and Alicorn Island are taken care of. Now who to place in the Crystal Empire."

She looked around at the remaining ponies and knew that both Celestia and Twilight would likely stay in Equestria and sighed to herself, "Ugh, why didn't I just tell Colgate I'd let her have something before she left? She would have been a perfect leader."

Eventually another pony, one who had been a second in command for quite some time raised her hoof, Scootaloo. She said, "LaurFa your Majesty, I would be happy to rule in the Crystal Empire."

Unlike the other leaders, the only leadership Scootaloo had ever had was being the head of Equestria's military. She asked, "Scootaloo, are you sure you can take this on? Ruling over an entire nation is a lot more difficult than just being in charge of the military."

Scootaloo replied, "Of course I'm sure." She turned to her friends and asked, "What would you two think about being advisors of some sort? What would you think of being there if I need somepony to bounce ideas off of."

Both her friends were shocked that Scootaloo would ask this of them but were happy as well. Apple Bloom replied, "Of course Ah would Scootaloo!"

Sweetie Belle added, "That would be delightful! I'd love to!"

LaurFa knew of Scootaloo's nature from her behavior in past wars but knew that her friends would likely be able to keep her from turning the Crystal Empire into a military dictatorship. She said, "Very well then Scootaloo, you shall lead the Crystal Empire."

She turned to Celestia and asked, "And I'm assuming you want to resume your role as the leader of Equestria?"

Celestia replied, "Yes but only if Twilight is allowed some say in things."

LaurFa said, "Well Equestria will be your country so you may rule in whatever way you see fit."

Celestia replied, "Good." She then turned to the west and noticed that Canterlot was not there. She gasped, "Wait a minute, what about Canterlot? It will have to be rebuilt because I do want it to be the capitol city."

LaurFa replied, "Don't worry Celestia, we'll get it taken care of as soon as we can."

Celestia sighed, "Great, just great. It looks like both Twilight and I are princesses without a home." She gave LaurFa puppy dog eyes and continued, "Do you think you could use your magic to rebuild it instead of it taking years to rebuild it?"

LaurFa replied, "I may not have the same abilities that Supreme Commander Colgate had with simply constructing things but I can give it my best shot but since we're here, I'm going to see if I can get Twilight a home built first."

Twilight saw LaurFa pointing her horn towards the rubble pile of what used to be her tower and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

LaurFa replied, "You'll see Twilight."

LaurFa could tell that both Celestia and Twilight would be a bit distraught if they had nowhere to call home right away so she decided to remedy the situation. Despite this though, she was not about to reconstruct what she used to live in back to how it was, she had other plans for how it would look but she did plan on throwing a special surprise in the castle, one that she knew Twilight would love.

LaurFa lit up her horn and fired energy at the spot. The rubble along with the earth in that area began to grow into a structure that looked like a cross between a tree and a castle. When she was finished she said, "Princess Twilight, this castle shall serve as your new home. I hope you like it."

Twilight looked in awe at her new home. She flew over to LaurFa, hugged her and exclaimed, "Thank you your Majesty, I love it!"

LaurFa saw Celestia looking sad and knew why. She said, "Don't worry Celestia, I can get Canterlot restored as well."

LaurFa wanted to get this done right away to ease Celestia's concerns of being without a home. She again lit up her horn, much more brightly and fired some energy at Canterlot Mountain. She was putting as much strength as she could into this spell, so much that she was grunting as she was casting it. Celestia was watching with a huge smile on her face as the capitol was being reconstructed back into what it was before Twilight's corruption.

When LaurFa finished she gave Celestia a smile and said, "There you go, just like it was five millennia ago."

Celestia embraced her and cheered, "Thank you LaurFa, thank you!"

LaurFa replied, "You're welcome Celestia. I do hope it is just as wonderful as it was back in the old days."

Celestia again thanked her but one pony who was curious about the future was Twilight. She remembered seeing everything down in what was the archives but also knew that LaurFa would likely want everything from Alicorn Island back and that Celestia would likely want everything that was in Canterlot back as well. LaurFa saw the sad look on her face and asked, "Twilight, what is wrong? You have an absolutely beautiful castle!"

Twilight replied, "I know and it is everything I could ever dream of. I guess I'm just sad that I have to return so much of the material down there in the archives."

LaurFa couldn't help but giggle a bit. She said, "Twilight, while I know you are sad that you have to return so much information BUT if you check in the library that comes with the castle, I think you won't be so sad anymore."

Twilight's eyes grew wide in anticipation. She asked, "Did you put a library in there with copies of all the material in the archives?"

LaurFa gave her a smile, "Yes Twilight, I did."

Twilight began jumping around exclaiming, "Yes, yes, yes, yes!" She was so happy that she was not paying attention to what she was doing and bumped into White Magick. When she noticed who she bumped into she blushed a little and said, "I'm so sorry your Majesty! I'm just so happy about my new home."

White Magick gave it a close look and replied, "It does look very impressive."

Twilight exclaimed, "And I talked to LaurFa and she put a library in there! A library with all the information that is in the archives, all the oldest information in Equestria!"

White Magick gave her a smile, "That is good." He knew that she had an immense hunger for knowledge and given that she was no longer evil he suggested, "You know, perhaps you could come visit my realm sometime. You think the information you'll have in there is old, the information I have predates Equestria by many, many millennia."

Twilight's appeared stunned and confused by his use of the word realm. She asked, "Realm, what do you mean? You talk like you live behind some portal or something."

White Magick replied, "I do. My subjects and I have lived behind a portal for over ten thousand years, ever since the dark days....." White Magick stopped himself from revealing any further because he knew that like most everypony else in Equestria that she believes that Ponyland, Grogar and Tambelon were all myths. Once he continued he said, "You know Twilight, with as much as you love knowledge, what would you think about visiting my realm someday. I'm sure you'd love the library I have."

Twilight's eyes grew wide with anticipation upon the invitation. She blushed at him and asked, "Really? You want me to come to your realm and visit your library?" Her blush deepened as she continued, "I'd love to!"

White Magick replied, "I do want to warn you, my wife will likely not be thrilled to see you at first but don't worry, once she sees that you are no longer corrupted she'll welcome you with open hooves."

While normally Twilight would ask about the corruption thing, White Magick bringing up his wife caused her to be a bit sad. While she would never admit this to anypony, she felt an attraction to White Magick but that wouldn't let her pass up on an opportunity to check out all the material in White Magick's realm. She asked, "So when would you want to do this? When would you want to let me come and check out your material?"

White Magick replied, "Well we could in a couple of days. I need to help my son in getting his military and my military back up to an adequate size and then perhaps I can stay at the inn......"

Twilight interrupted, "No. I'm sure my new castle will have spare bedrooms and you can stay in one of them until you are ready to go, besides, I'm sure you're hungry and tired. I'm guessing a couple days rest would do you some good."

White Magick replied, "I think I'll take you up on your offer Princess Twilight. Some good food and some rest sounds good." He cast his gaze over towards his son and said, "Excuse me for a moment, I need to talk to my son because I have a feeling that before too long he will be wanting to head off to his new kingdom in Neigh Zealand."

Twilight nodded and couldn't help but feel happy that not only would she soon get to learn things she never knew about and check out her new, larger library but also that she would be having White Magick staying with her for a couple of days. While she knew that he is married, she couldn't help but wonder if perhaps he may develop feelings for her, feelings of more than simply an alliance or friends. One thing she did know was that regardless of what happened during her past corruption, that things can only improve from what her friends and other leaders had told her.

Comments

[StormLuna]

9597422

Thanks for pointing out the errors and regarding the star in front of General, I have no idea why I put it there. It has been so long since I wrote this. Anyway, the star is gone and the error involving Twilight has been fixed.

[Night Mare Moon]

I wanna know what would happen f twilight was not defeated. like i said, im addicted to her being corrupted. there should be an Alternate for this

[StormLuna]

9603189

If Twilight were not defeated, everypony would be paying her tribute and Celestia's life would be miserable.

[Night Mare Moon]

you mean since she'd be in the void for the rest of her life?

[StormLuna]

9603202

Either that or there are worse things for her, trust me, Twilight can get pretty bad.

[Phage]

So basically White Majick can use reforming spells

[StormLuna]

10280609

Yes but his are much stronger than your normal spell. While his spells are very strong, some ponies prefer other methods of wiping out their enemies.