Bonus: Green Sun
Remember when I said 'Restarting' was the last chapter?
This is a special chapter. A 'what if?' scenario of the elements failing to destroy Celestia.
The rainbow magic of the Elements of Harmony engulfed Twilight and Celestia, much to Shining Armor's horror, but he couldn't do anything anymore. There was nothing left to do now but let it run its course. However, when the elements struck a perceived threat, they would usually take but mere seconds to fully affect them. Here, however, they had been lingering for quite a bit longer than that, making the bearers realize that something was wrong, and they were direct witnesses to the cause of that realization.
Twilight's medallion shook aggressively while engulfed in the magic, and multiple rectangles emerged from it, floating in the air. They eventually 'joined' each other into a wall on the side and somehow 'grabbed' the magic, crushing it. Doing something that wasn't really possible caused the spell to crash and collapse in on itself and send everypony but Twilight flying away in a surge of magic and power. The rectangles suffused the spell cast upon both Twilight and Celestia and corrupted it before throwing it at Twilight and fusing her with it.
Shining felt his heart sink and despair engulf him as the world around him seemed to vanish when Twilight started screaming from the infusion and multiple large pulses of unknown magic flew out of Celestia's body, crashing into several of the refugees of the outside world, immediately killing them and stripping them of their souls as their bodies immediately began to decay. The stronger ponies screamed in terror, not knowing what to do.
"What in Hades is that thing?" Shining whispered to himself. "It hurts to look at..." He put a hoof to his forehead and struggled to stand up as he was buffeted by the magic surges.
The stallion wanted to tell it to leave his sister alone, to disappear, but as Twilight began to transform, despair engulfed him, and the next surge did to him as it did to his fellow ponies. Now as naught but an extremely powerful skeleton, the new undead waited patiently for its master's bidding as its bones were wrapped in Twilight's magic as Spike's was. It was all that was left of Shining's love for his sister, and he hoped, in his final moments, that he could bring her comfort in the dark days ahead.
Moon Dancer awoke from her stupor and saw bits of something falling from her head. The other mares woke up in the same way and heard cracking and 'tinking' noises. The Elements of Harmony were cracked and falling apart in tiny bits, much to their shock and horror. Seeing what was happening to the survivors, the mares gathered everypony up as best they could and used the last of the magic left in the elements to teleport them away. From what pale yellow unicorn could tell, the surges were only reaching as far as the walls of the castle. She hated herself for not being able to save the ponies in Canterlot City, as did the five other mares, but there was nothing they could do. There was nothing they even understood of the situation.
Equestria soon became engulfed by the Green Sun and the walls between the living and the dead were irreversibly damaged. The weaker of the ponies or just the unfortunates being in the wrong place at the wrong time found themselves engulfed in necromantic energies and turned into undead. Worse still, they all turned into various types that were influenced by their environment. A notorious kind turned into dried, desiccated husks that wandered near salt mines where they were transformed, absorbing moisture around them and almost or outright killing anything that approached their 'territory'.
Equestria, as its inhabitants knew it, was no more. Little pockets existed here and there, fighting against the encroaching dead and eldritch entities that would peer through the cracks in reality and do whatever they felt like. At first, every country in the known world had sealed Equestria into its own lands, but Twilight and Princess Celestia's powers only grew as time went on, corrupting and destroying everything they could find. Eventually, the build-up of magic tore away at the seals to infect and expand beyond Equestrian borders.
Many communities fled underground, hoping to establish a new life for themselves and their loved ones, but those born in the light needed to see the sun every once in a while, and those who gave in to that hunger would eventually see themselves transfixed and warped by the necromantic aura exuded by the corrupted sun, seeing their bodies stretched, expanded, and burnt, turning into a tangled mess of flesh and meat ropes. It left many ponies mentally scarred and traumatized when bearing witness to such a thing.
As the corruption spread, it affected other lands, raising long-dead monsters from the lands and the sea and bringing back the long-dead victims of war and disease. Many undead dragons flew through the skies, trapped in their wars of the past and repeating their lives at those moments when anything broke their routine. The necromancers of Saddle Arabia could barely do anything to save the capital city. Too engrossed were they in their wants and needs that they hadn't trained themselves nor expanded their knowledge on the dead. However, they were still capable of subduing some of the dead, and by their very nature were immune to the waves of magic Celestia unleashed into the world. Luna kept hidden from everything, staying in the cave and eventually vanishing from everyone's minds as they were more preoccupied with this new life of theirs.
The Elements of Harmony, having their own family to care for, ended up breaking apart with their own, individual elements in tow but would eventually return to the Crystal Castle kept safe by the Map of Harmony.
The wildlife wasn't spared from the actions of Twilight. Many beasts ended up as warped as the ponies were and several of the larger monsters were possessed by the stronger spirits and eldritch entities, turning them into misshapen, slavering abominations that prowled the lands to crush and slaughter whatever their many limbs and detecting organs found. Fluttershy was especially affected by such occurrences, but Angel Bunny was far too angry and stubborn to be possessed. His sturdiness and bizarre effect of making spirits flee at his presence made the bunny a source of light for the smaller creatures in Fluttershy's care, but he was just a small bunny, after all.
Pinkie's family was almost entirely subsumed into a single mass of stone and outstretched rotting flesh, and only her father made it out alive, although both have since lost their splendor and wander the world aimlessly, glad that they at least still had each other.
Applejack's family was safe on the farm thanks to the insane amount of spirits swirling about the premises protecting it from even the horrors that peered through the cracks in the sky. It ended up bringing in outside ponies and creating a small community of farmers and harvesters which brought the foundation of the village of Applevinegar with it with Granny Smith as its head before Big Mac took over.
Rarity vanished from sight, becoming yet another missing casualty in the world under the shade of the Green Sun. Whether she was caught by the dead, took her own life, fell to some horrid event, or simply left the known world would forever be unknown.
Rainbow Dash became the first mare to guide the pegasi to better lives higher in the skies. With the magic from her element, it slowly began to mutate the pegasi into a brand new breed of pony, one that was exceptionally fast and able to breathe easily despite being in low orbit. Their sleek and smooth forms terrified the survivors of the world which confused them for hellish monstrosities like the rest. It would take time to be accepted in a world gripped by terror.
As for Moon Dancer, she poured herself into the studies of forgotten magic, intent on undoing everything Twilight had caused and refusing to stoop to the level that she had gone to. The greatest wizards of the past, be they pony or not, always utilized standard magic and even created hundreds of their own spells and schools of magic. There was no reason that Moon Dancer couldn't do the same.
The unicorn sat in a home dug into a mountain and peered through a reinforced window toward Canterlot. The sky was the most turbulent above the mountain: Swirling, cracking, crumbling, and wrapping over itself into a solid shape again before the events repeated. She was stuck in this refuge, helping maintain the wards that kept the spirits and undead out and hid them all from the prying eyes of the ones beyond.
Moon got back to transcribing old runes from old texts in her small room and sighed, relaxing. All things considered, this wasn't a bad life for her. She had regular food, was able to train her magic, and was given everything she needed to try and solve the world's problems. The mare had helped to create new, easier wards and spells that helped with growing food even with such a dark and infertile soil the survivors plucked from the outside.
Still, this wasn't a way to live. Moon Dancer needed to help get the ponies and other creatures out of the predicament they had found themselves in and quickly rushed to work. As she listened to the head of her quill scribble ink into the parchment, a thought occurred to her: Was this what Twilight felt like with Princess Celestia? Utterly consumed by her self-assigned purpose that nothing else mattered.
Moon would have to make sure this thought was always at the forefront of her mind, lest she fall into the same despair as her former friend.
In the end, she was lost, like everypony else, hoping for a better future and being disappointed when they woke up to see everything got worse. A lesson in tedium that brought more despondence to the survivors. They kept themselves occupied by digging tunnels deep underground and joining up with other refugees, much to their surprise. Everything gradually started to grow into a small society in the darkness below and ponies were grateful, but then came the non-ponies, and with the need for survival, tensions rose among the refugees, even among their fellow kin.
Everything was getting both worse and better as time went on, but the world hadn't died. Moon believed it had just been temporarily occupied.
The unicorn once again found herself looking at the castle, thinking about what became of Twilight when those rectangles changed the essence of the magic of harmony and infused it into her. Moon hoped that the mare died, making it easy to take out Celestia when they got through. Unfortunately, because the pale unicorn was one of the 'normal' ponies that didn't study forbidden magic, Moon Dancer had no idea that all of this would have instantly ended had the lavender unicorn died.
Twilight had survived the ordeal she was put through and came out significantly stronger. Boney wings coated in a membrane of purple magic had grown from her back and left a trail of purple, white, and gray sparks wherever she went. Her body had grown tall and bony as her magic surged from her hooves, mane, and tail. A thick, sparkling mane and tail dragged behind her as she walked, as though she were in the water. Her horn had grown long, but it had fractured in half and several parts of the surface were chipped. However, everything still stayed in its place, floating next to each other and impeding in no way Twilight's ability to use magic. Her eyes had grown dark with the magic coursing through her, leaving only her iris of bright violet burning like rings of fire as she gazed at Celestia in glee.
The former princess of Equestria was fully a skeleton consumed by the green fires. They imitated the way the alicorn looked like as they burned and often flickered away, leaving behind the burning skeleton. Twilight didn't register such a thing, addled and shattered as her mind was, and she just hopped about happily, often having 'conversations' with the former princess.
Spike hadn't moved since the day of the Green Sun, watching the mare bounce giddily around the corpse of Celestia and awaiting an order. The only thing left of Twilight's mind was her love for Celestia and the tremendous smile she bore at all times while dancing around her body and the throne, trapped in her illusions of a filly being praised by her hero, mentor, and beloved teacher.
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This seems unfixable. I love this. This was a good bonus, hopefully one day they can reach a point where they can live happily.
Not that this is done, the question is whether or not you will create a sequel, this story. I hope so... Either way congrats on finishing your story! It was really good!
Well.... The only thing that I even like about this chapter is the fact that Twilight became an Allicorn of the undead, atleast now I can say my theories was correct!
I'd say the world is completely dead, anyone living underground is, at this point, delaying the inevitable. There's no sunlight, they can't grow crops and there won't be any food left, unless they create a light source but i doubt they would be able to create one as good as the sun, there basically as good as dead.
But hey, atleast now the council (if there's any left) now knows what Twilight has gone through after Celestia died, they probably regret what they have done now.
I'm pretty sure alot of creatures across the world has regrets on how they affected Twilight's life and the world around her, the ponies at the Crystal empire, the council, probably even some of the main 6 such as AppleJack and Rarity probably wondering what would have happened if they tried to talk to Twilight when they first met her instead of immediately capturing her. Ya alot of regrets.
When I said I wanted Twilight to be the Allicorn of the undead, I didn't mean something like this though, quite the opposite actually, maybe saving the world or something.
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Pssst. Secret bonus chapter
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You're almost at the end!
This is actually the first story I ever read that I kept tabs on since the first chapter of the story was first released up until the story has finished.
I was here since the first chapter was released, and read nearly 100,000 words to the final chapter of the story, I feel proud of myself.
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Congratulations, then! Glad you stuck with it to the end and that it was good enough to keep said attention.
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I don't mind reading 2,000 words a day, I read an average of 50,000+ words Total depending what stories I find interesting, sometimes I read over 100,000 words in a day.
I do have some questions about the story after it is over though...
We still never found out what happened after Twilight left the Crystal Empire, we also never found out what the purpose of the element bearer's were to go to the Crystal Empire or meeting Twilight earlier in the story, was it to avoid Twilight causing the chaos that happened at Canterlot? Or was it to be friends with her, because at the end of the story, she only made friends with Luna.
The ending also kinda raised questions, such as why is the sun white? Is there gonna be a new Allicorn who raises the sun with a white sun as a cutie mark? And why does Twilight still have that voice in her head? Still has never been confirmed what the cause of that voice is or what the purpose of it is.
This opens up several possibilities for a sequel and i would definitely love to see one. Of course, that's up to you. Of course, I'm gonna be commenting and reading every chapter.
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What do you mean you never found out what happened to Twilight after leaving the Empire? She recovered at her home and continued her research. It's in the story.
As for the voice, it's not actually as complicated as you think: It's just a form of trauma and paranoia that makes Twilight 'hear voices', usually as a way to try and push her to do something that might not be a good idea.
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No I'm not talking about Twilight's perspective, I'm talking about Pinkie Pie, AppleJack, and fluttershy, like what happened at the Crystal Empire the second she left? We never found that out.
The map would obviously send those 3 to the Crystal Empire for a reason but we, the readers, never found that reason and some (including me) pointed out that the reason those 3 was called was for what happened after Twilight left, one pointed out that maybe the 3 had to explain with the ponies outside the gate that Twilight was nice and not who they assumed her to be.
But at the same time that could be unlikely because that would assume that Twilight would be going back to the Crystal Empire later in the story since it could mean that she would be welcomed back to the Crystal Empire and ponies would be less mean to her but she doesn't, instead she lives with Luna.
Probably should get therapy.
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Luna is acting as a therapist in a way.
And I wanted to keep it vague why the three were sent to the empire. The map never explained why the characters were sent somewhere in the series and they had to guess when they arrived.
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Ya but usually in the series we got a good idea on why they were called over...
Luna would actually be a perfect therapist for Twilight, considering she also caused chaos much like Twilight did with the entire eternal night thing plus she is over a thousand years old (even if 1000 of those years was on the moon isolated from everything) which makes her have more experience in things than anyone else, some things Twilight went through she could probably help her out with it in experience, and the things she hasn't gone through then she can just learn from Twilight's experience.
There actually kinda the same, everyone either hated them or disliked them and in the end, all it caused was chaos, it's the same yet different at the same time.
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Wait really? I don't remember them figuring it out until they reached the location?
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Mainly just assuming because I never watched the show, I'm currently on Season 1 Episode 11,.
I'm watching more of the show now, in fact I watched 5 episodes in less than 24 hours, I'm running out of interesting things to read so I'm watching more episodes of MLP: FIM now.
I'm way behind in the whole friendship map thing, but I did get an idea of it, the map sends some of the main 6 to friendship problems around the world and it seems that they find out the problem upon arrival but in the story I still don't understand the purpose of the map sending some of the main 6 to the Crystal Empire or the location at the edge of Equestria. Or wherever it was.
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The map actually sends them all around, not just Equestria, unless the Yak lands, Griffin mountains, and Crystal Empire are also considered as being Equestria.
Also, that's treason!
How does this have so few upvotes? It's criminal! Take mine at least. Good work.
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Thanks!
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Thank you