A year after the wedding, and the separation. Emma try to bring back Aeon by going to search informations in the restricted personnal archives of Princess Celestia, creating more problems then there was. Considering this as a crime, Celestia send the elements of harmony after the Princess of Hope.
For now a year, Aeon is teaching me my powers, in my dreams. Strangely when I wake up, I remember everything he taught me. I need him back, for now a year I waited every night for his return, I've waited enough. I sat on the couch and sighed. "Anything wrong Princess?" The voice was Sharpe's, one of my two guardians, she is special... She is a blind pegasus, but her others senses are better than any other living ponies. "It's okay Sharpe, I was just thinking about something..." "You want him back don't you Emma?" "How can you tell?" "I can feel it..." She will always surprise me. "...maybe I can give you a tip, you will maybe find informations about Aeon in the Canterlot's Archives..." "Sharpe, Aeon told me that nopody but Alicorns knew that he existed before we've met." "Princess, I meant Celestia's restricted archives, nopony ever knew what was in there, maybe you could find something."
She was right, I could possibly discover something in Canterlot. I cannot use teleportation like Aeon, but with magic, I can move faster than if I would fly with my wings. The sun was setting down and I cast the transportation spell, turning me into a purple ball of light dashing through the sky.
I entered the castle of Canterlot into a room from the window, two ponies we're in the bed, they didn't heard me, I was silent like the wind. I rushed outside and ran into the corridors, I was not welcome here, even if I am an Alicorn, Celestia still don't considerate me as one of them. For her, I am a simple pony that is now breaking in the castle. I ran downstairs, no guards? That's weird... I entered the archives without problems, there were scrolls everywhere. I went to the restricted door of Celestia private archive. It's was locked. I simply unlocked it with magic, but I felt magic, coming out of the lock, it was a trap, Celestia knew that I was here. I search the scrolls, Aeon, Aeon, Aeon, where is he? I spotted a scroll that was talking about other Alicorns, Princess Flare, Princess Tide, Prince Draft and Princess Nucleus. All betrayed by Celestia... I memorised their names. I finally found an old scroll, there were only four words on it: "Aeon Temple Everfree Time". Aeon have a temple in the everfree forest? I heard a noise behind me I turned around, ten guards were pointing their spears at me and behind them, SHE was there... Celestia... "Late night reading Emma?"
Come ride with me, Through the veins of history, I'll show you how god, Falls asleep on the job And how can we win, When fools can be kings, Don't waste your time, Or time will waste you... - Knights of Cydonia - Muse
I remained silent in front of this mare I once considered as god, now I see her like Aeon was seeing her, a betrayer and a coward that gets what she wants done by the work of the others. She was looking at me with her purple eyes, she asked: "What did you read?" "It's too late,I know what I came here for and there is nothing you can do." "Nopony could teach you magic, except the unicorns but I all gave them the order to avoid talking to you, remember..." She really doesn't want me to discover my powers, but she doesn't know something. "...so it'll be easy for me to keep you here after your intrusion in my castle AND in my personal archives." "Oh you are wrong Celestia, somepony taught me my powers, and better than any other unicorn..." Her expression changed from egoism to fear. "Oh, Celestia, I can see that you know where I am going with this" "This is impossible, you are lying" "Am I? Need a little proof?" My horn started to glow, I swung my head towards the guards and the flow rammed them on the walls, the princess countered it with her magic and replied by firing a piercing light at me. I deflected the attack with my horn, what caused it to pierce the wall with a bang. I turned around and saw the escape opportunity, I had no time to lose, I have to go to the temple. I lift all the scrolls and the books in the room and threw them at the Princess. She would not destroy her whole history. I jumped out of the tower, while falling, I changed into a light ball and pierce the sky toward Ponyville.
Aeon
This mare is courageous, fighting Celestia without hesitating, she is stubborn but excellent in improvising. Celestia didn't go after her. Actually, she seems quite relaxed, she is up to something... There she is, in her chamber, writing down a letter, asking the Elements of Harmony to go after her, with her sister. She asked to Luna to deliver the message, to win some time. They will not do the detour by Canterlot, they will go immediately after Emma. My temple is old, I am sure that Emma will find the door's password. She will not find what she is searching for, but, she will indeed find an alternative.
Emma
I used telepathy, well, the less I know about it, to tell Sharpe and SilverShield to search for information about the Alicorns Celestia betrayed, and avoid any contact with Celestia or Luna. I arrived fast enought over the everfree forest. Damn it's big, where can I find a hidden temple in a forest like this, I remember, "Aeon-Temple-Everfree-Time", hum... the first letters make ATET, AT and ET, ET represent East, At East... I turned east as I realised the answer. I felt magic over some firs. I dove in the forest and took back my body shape before gently landing on the ground. There was a giant boulder stuck in the mountain. There were signs on it, I new them, it was the old royal language, Aeon talked to me about it and showed me some things about it. I could barely read it but I got able to have the whole enigma. It was written "What is the best medicine for non-physical pain?" I thought, what is "non-physical"? inside? feeling? Then it popped in my head, I said: "It's the Time" The ground shook, was I right? Was I wrong? A fissure appeared in the boulder and I stood back a little. The fissure became larger and the shape of a gate appeared. I went through the portal. The den was dark but torches lit themselves as I walked foward. Suddenly, many torches lit at the same time, revealing a big room. In the middle, there were three statues around one, one of the three statues was familiar to me but the others were unknown from me, but the one in the middle was him. I slowly when down the steps toward the rock model of Aeon. A voice said in my head. "Touch it with your horn." I recognized the voice of my lover and touched him with my horn. A bright light comes out of it and fade pretty fast after. The statue was still there but it was moving, except the hooves. "Aeon? Is, is that you?" "Well, yes, and no. You see Emma, I used your energy, when you touched my statue, to animate it and let me tell you something." "I am so happy to see you in real life and not in my dreams." "Emma, right now, it's impossible for you to brink me back, Celestia sealed me in non-reality and she is the only one who can release me. It's going to be hard to convince her..." "Aeon, she is more powerful than me, she won't listen to me." He shook his head. He turned his head toward the statues. "Celestia sealed me. But Midnight, Noon and Eclipse are not." "Oh yes I recognized you, him, Eclipse, I recognized him..." "I will bring them to help you, you must find the Princes and Princesses you found in the archives, they will be able to convince Celestia to release me, but I won't be able to be with you. These three fellas are all me together. My soul will be separated in them." "I love you, I will do anything to have you back." "Oh and one last thing, Nucleus, the Princess of Rocks is Paradoxus wife." "What?!?" "Be careful." "Aeon..." The bright light came back and blind me. I tripped and felt on the ground, I knocked my head on something and lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes three ponies were watching me, a dark blue pegasus, a pale blue earth pony and finally, the blue unicorn Eclipse. "Emma, are you alright?" "Aeon? Hum... Eclipse? Is that you?" "Yes Emma, this is Midnight the pegasus and Noon the Earth pony. Together we are the Legendary ponies." "Nice to meet you Emma, I mean, physically" That was the grave voice of Noon, he looks like the most serious of them. "Indeed, we know everything Aeon know, also Eclipse remember his time spent with you." Midnight, quite the entertaining one sounded young and joyfull. Eclipse helped me to stood back on. "We all do actually, we are Aeon, so... his mind is our mind." Suddenly, Eclipse watched toward the hallway and an expression of fear appeared in his face. "What is it?" "Somepony is coming..."
You rise, you fall, you're down then you rise again. What don't kill you'll make you more strong Metallica - Broken, Beat and Scarred
And I choose to survive, Whatever it takes, You won’t pull ahead, I’ll keep up the pace, And I’ll reveal my strength, To the whole human pony race, Yes I am prepared, To stay alive, I won’t forgive, the vengeance is mine, And I won’t give in, Because I choose to thrive Muse-Survival
Emma Eclipse, Noon and Midnight were looking straight toward the entrance in a defense position. Eclipse turns his head in my direction. "Emma, Go see your guards, now..." I shook my head and turned around. "...wait..." I looked in the entrance where they were looking at. Luna was standing there. "You know you got yourself in some big trouble Emma, our sister was hysterical." Eclipse looked at me with a stare that showed that he got this. "Luna, you know you can't stop what's going to happen... because you trust Aeon and you know, deeply that you want him back." "What are you talking about, I will stop you with my life if I would need to." "Is it Luna that is talking or Celestia's boot-licker?" The princess of the Night became angry and she yelled at Eclipse with her royal voice. "HOW DARE YOU INSULT US AND OUR SISTER!!" I was frightened but the brothers didn't even wavered. "I am sure that it's hard for the Elements of harmony to stay silent, especially the laughter one..." How did he? "...we are Aeon, we are not to be taken easily." Noon speaked for the second time since I've met him. "Come over here... all six of you, anyway I don't think there is any other way possible. Because I am hesitating if some of you are cowards." Rainbow Dash was the first to react she came flying in the frame of the hall as the anger grew inside her. "What did you just called us?" I told Noon. "What are you doing? This is not the way to solve problems!" He looked at me, relaxed. "Bait..." Defeated the 5 other mares showed themselves, with the elements jems around their neck, but Twilight had this crown thingy. Eclipse reacted. "Oh my, you did really bring the jems. How honorable, but unfortunately useless." Twilight responded. "What do you mean «useless»" "Ah yes, Twilight, the student of Celestia. You see, we here are the spirit of Aeon, Prince of Time, and without time, there is nothing. Not even harmony, Time is the base of harmony, of everything. Time is harmony, the elements won't stop the return of Aeon."
There was a silence, a long silence. Everypony was staring at the opposite team. AppleJack, the element of honesty broke the ice: "Well if we ain't able to stop ya with the elements, we'll need to do it physically." Midnight laughed with a small grin. He looked at his unicorn brother. "Well that's an «honest» proposition." Eclipse looked at his brother, kinda dissapointed. "Okay, then if we all agree..." Rainbow Dash replied: "Bring it on" "...let's go outside, we wouldn't like to destroy this temple that is itself... history."
We walked around ten minutes away from the temple in the forest. There was a waterfall. "Let's clear this zone a little." Eclipse's horn started to glow. The trees around us started to move, taking the shape of a big circle zone. He whispered: "Emma, go to your guards. We will hold them." "Wha..." "Now!" I jumped and cast the transportation spell and I dashed toward ponyville. I heard Luna. "Oh no you don't!" She started to flew in my direction... I was reaching the edge of the tree circle when I turned around, she was going to catch me when something stopped her. I plunge in the dark night.
Eclipse Emma got away, and Luna got stopped by my zone spell, she came back, defeated. "So, let me be clear, each race fight each other, no killing, you fight until the adversary is knocked out or if he/she give up." Luna replied: "How about me?" I thought... "Well I count like an Alicorn too..." My brothers were upset "Hey we are as much an alicorn as you Eclipse." Noon approved. I replied. "Well, I will see how Luna improved for the last two thousand years, And I am sure that FlutterShy won't fight because of her kindness and Rarity won't either because she don't want to damage her appearance. I am not sure for Pinkie Pie tho..." I looked at the mare and she was roaring at Noon that was completely ignoring her. "Perfect... then let's begin..."
Midnight Wow, I am going to fight the fastest living mare in Equestria, I wonder how she is going to attack... Well, she seems agressive enought. Is she going to attack? She seems to have a big trust in herself... She is the one who made the legendary sonic rainboom. Long time I didn't saw that trick. Well, this silence is boring. "So are we going to fight or what?" Not even a second passed that she yelled. "YES!" She took off in my direction like a lightning. Hum... did she aimed for me? As she was going to hit me I jumped in the airs and I spread my wing and started to keep my position in the airs, I did jumped a little bit to high... about fifteen meters before deploying my wings. Dash looked at me, impressed. "How the hell did you saw me coming?" "You are indeed the fastest pony of the decade, but I am the fastest of the millenium." She looked a little bit scared, but she suddenly popped. "I don't trust you, I bet that this was just luck." "Oh really?" She flew in my direction at the same speed of the first assault. I followed her movement, we were going in the same direction, she was going as fast as she could hooves in front of her, and I was a half meter in front of her, flying backwards. "So, you are the pony who can perform a sonic rainboom?" "Bet ya I can, you can do it too?" I think that she was scared of the answer. "No, not exactly indeed." "Perfect" Without warning she stopped, I tried to stay with her so I imitated the move but as I was immobile, she took off again ramming me in my ribs, stunning me for a moment, I watched around and couldn't saw her, then I realised something. "Oh crap..." I didn't even had the time to move that something rammed me. We were around 200 meters in the airs and diving, well... fast enought. "Oh hello there... you really suprised me on that one" "I am not finished silly." I thought for a moment. "Oh yeah... that" I looked down. I saw the groung comming faster. At the moment of the impact on the solid ground, she got able to break the wall of sound, causing a sonic raiboom as we hit the horizontal wall. The Sonic Rainboom caused a colorful explosion that shook the whole forest. The blow caused a crater in the ground she was standing on me then she walked away. "That was way too easy, better luck next time..." She heard me moving and stood back up like if nothing happened. "How the hell can you be unharmed?" "That's called «impact preparation», in fact, I am not «unharmed» but my body was ready for the impact so I am less hurt than I should." She was still catching her breath from the technique. "I can see this used a lot of energy. Give up and I won't push you harder." "I will never give up! May I remember you that I am the element of Loyalty, I will not let my friends fall." She flew away. To get some speed I guessed. "Well, if we want to bring Aeon back, I am sorry but I have no choice." "Do whatever you want! From this distance, I will see you coming! Whatever you do!" "Then stay concentrated and try to avoid this..." I swung my wings and suddenly dissapeared from her vision, she was about 300 meters away from me. She blinked, hoping to see me again. "I am starting to see that you didn't stayed concentrated." She turned around and saw me 300 meters in the opposite direction. "What do you mean? You missed me!" "Oh did I?" "Yeah, look I am unharmed!" "That was a..." "Not a scratch on me!" "... you know what? I am just going to enjoy the view and see the magic happen." She froze when she heard a cracking sound.
Noon I was standing in front of these two earth ponies. The honesty was serious and The laughter was acting like a lion. What the hell is going to be this fight? "Ya better surrender now if ya don't wanna be beatin' up ba' us" "Impossible, I never gave up, I want to keep it this way, the question is more applicable for you." I smiled. "Are you ready!" Get set! GO!" The pink mare jumped in my direction. "Pinkie! WAIT!" I replied. "Too late..." I jumped to my left and avoided the party animal. I landed on my back hooves. I saw a hoof coming towards my face. "Oh you little..."*WHAM* I bumped in the airs, she just had the time to sneak under me and crush my back with her back hooves. I fell on the ground. Pinkie sounded happy. "Yaaaay we got him." I grinned. "Oh I can take far more than that." I kicked AppleJack's legs, making her falling on the ground. Then I bounced in the direction of the pink mare, The orange pony followed my lead. Pinkie turned around and didn't had the time to saw me coming. I grabbed her hooves and flipped, throwing her in the farm mare's direction. They both screamed as they rammed each other. It looked painful... "A'm sorry Pinkie" "Na, It's oki, I barely felt that." "What? But ya' hit me like a bull." "Come on, let's get him." "Al' right partner." Pinkie and AJ both ran in my direction. I jumped over them, Pinie saw my move and jumped under me and hit my belly with her head. The impact was hard, she felt like a boulder thrown in my direction a fast as a diving hawk. I let a gasp out of my mouth. "Hey! Sugarcube!" I turned around and saw the orange mare over me. "How did you..." They squished me, the pain was big, but not long, I fast took back control of the situation, as we were still in the airs I threw them both at the ground. They opened their eyes as I dashed in their direction I put all my force in my legs, at the second that I was going to hit them I said: "I'm sorry" I kicked in the air over them, I strangely bouced over them and landed on the ground on my four hooves. "What are you sorry about?" Pinkie had this face with a question mark in her eyes. "I needed to win this fight, I had no choice" "What in tarnation do ya mean?" "You'll see fast enough." They both looked up as a cracking sound was heard.
Eclipse
Luna and Twilight were starring at me. "I won't be impolite and I will let you open the waltz." "With pleasure!" All our horns started to glow, Twilight moved her head and a light ball came out of it, I jumped in the airs and I looked at the ball hitting a rock, causing it to break into dust. Wow, not bad, but I got better. I swung my head toward the ground and a big wind blew awy the mares, they hardly hit the ground about ten meters away. Luna, angry let out of her horn three dark purple flows that immediately in the ground. Why did they when in the ground?... THE GROUND!! I jumped back as the three pillars came out of the dirt, they were spiky. "I said no killing Luna, definitely, you'll never change, you'll never listen." "Take this back!" "Hum... no." "AAAAARG!! Twilight! DO IT!" "But Celestia told me to use this against a mortal threat!" What are those two talking about? "I don't care what Celestia said, DO IT!" "I am sorry mister." "That depends of what spell she's talking about." Both threw a ball at me, a white on and a dark purple one. They were small but I could sense a big amount of energy coming out of it. Suddenly, both balls exploded and from the white ball cam a giant white dragon shape and from the purple one came the shape of a giant wolf, both diving in my direction. "HOW IN EQUESTRIA DID YOU LEARN THAT!!!" I had to protect my brother, the explosion would kill us all, and could even kill the other elements. The animals hit me and a white glow came out. When the light fade out, nothing happened. Luna could not believe what was going on. "Whe... Where's the explosion?" I catched my breath, my spell used a big energy. "I... sent it... in another dimension..." Both were astonished of what they just heard. "You... almost... killed us all with that spell, I will make sure you won't do it again" "What are you going to do? Kill us?" The Princess of the moon told that like if it was a joke. "No, because I respect rules." My horn created a flexible blue glowing blade I swung it over them, then on the sides, in front of them, then behind. The blade dissapeared. Twilight seemed scared. "Princess, I can't move." Luna ignored her, she told me. "Ooooooh, you wouldn't dare." "I am sorry." We heard a big cracking sound.
Midnight and Noon joined me, I looked in Rainbow Dash's direction, she was unconscious on the ground, with FlutterShy trying to wake her up. Then I looked at the earth ponies, both were in a crater, also unconscious. Twilight also saw them. "What have you done!" Noon and Midnight turned around and said at the same time: "We won." The cracking sound became louder as Twilight and Luna saw the air around them fissuring. A deep black crack surrounded them. Suddenly, the cracking sound stopped. They both looked at me "Boom." There was an explosion, without fire. We could only see a shock wave. The mares got crushed in the middle of it, surrounded by cracks that dissapeared. Under the pressure, they both fainted. "Brothers, let's continue our journey, Noon, bring Luna with you." "With pleasure Eclipse." The trees slowly went back to their places. "To Canterlot, Let's open the way for Emma and her... friends..."
Emma I didn't turned back, I went straight to my house and landed in the living room. "Princess, you've made it!" "Indeed SilverShield, but I must leave again, what did you found about the other Alicorns?" "We listened to you Princess, We went to the library and we didn't found much." Sharpe's eyes were starring at the void. "All we found was something about a cursed fire pony, living in the Red mountain." "That could be Flare, Thank you guys!" They replied at the same time. "Anything to serve you... my Princess."
Red mountain was known to be a flaming hill. Many ponies that explored it never came back, legends says that the fire pony burned them. I flew around the mountain to finally find the entrance of a cave. Signs and barriers were asking ponies to go away, that this place was dangerous. I stepped inside the black corridor, I walked for about ten minutes, trning right and left, always going up, I didn't try to fly, I could've hit a wall. Suddenly, a light came out of the tunnel, an orange light, it was starting to get hotter and hotter. The heat started to be insupportable, Flames were coming out of the walls and from fissures in the ground. The passage finally ended up in a flaming dome. Fire was everywhere, surprisingly, it wasn't burning my skin, nor my mane. There was a bridge going to a platform in the middle of the dome. Over the round platform was a floating transparent orange ball. With a sleeping alicorn in it... Flare. She suddenly opened her eyes.
She was white, with red eyes. Her mane and her tail was pure fire. "I am amazed, somepony finally got able to join me here..." Even with the sound of the cracking fire, her voice sounded clear and loud. "For two thousand years, all the ponies that entered had to face the challenge and you are the only one that passed it without even realising it. You see... The flames here are not natural one that everypony know, this is called the Fire of Purity. Only those who have a pure heart cannot be burned by them. That's in fact why Celestia never caught me here." She had a small laught. I stayed quiet. "Oh my... you are an alicorn? I never saw you before. What's your name my dear?" The ball dissapeared and she slowly landed on the platform. "My... My name is Emma." "Well, then «Emma», what brings you in the lost cave of the Red Mountain?"" "I came here for you Flare" "How do you know my name? Do you work for Celestia? Did you came here to fight me?" "No! Not at all, I need you help, it's about the Prince Aeon." She stayed silent for a moment. "That's... a name... that I didn't heard for about two thousand years, but tell me Emma, how do you know the old fella?" "He's the one who made me an Alicorn, protecting me from my power, we are married together." "So Aeon finally chose his mare. So in fact, you have all of my trust Emma, but... what's Aeon's need?" "After making me an Alicorn, Paradoxus attacked the church. To stop his nemesis, Aeon used alot of energy. After the death of the dark Prince, Celestia appeared and accused Aeon of changing me into an Alicorn without her permission." "I know, The old witch is hard on this part." "Using his weakness, he took my place at the banishment in the void." "Oh my... How sad..." "But he still appeared to me, since a part of his soul is in myself because he transmitted me a part of his power to transform me. He teached me my powers during a year in my dreams. After feeling ready, I decided to bring him back, I found in Celestia's private archives your existence with three other alicorns that Celestia betrayed. She found out and sent after me her sister and the elements of harmony. In his temple, Aeon used the part of his soul that was in my head to animate his three personalities Noon, Eclipse and Midnight. As they fought the chasers. I came here to ask you help to convince Celestia to release Aeon." She remained silent. "Aeon... was like a dad to me... he is the one who raised me as a foal, he taught me everything I know. He is the one who also made me an alicorn, but not with the soul thing. I was an unicorn as a foal. I used to burn everything I saw, I accidently killed my parents this way... My... My house was burning, he came out of the flames and collected me..."
3 000 years ago
Flare It's been a hundred years that I am an alicorn and I still look like a 10 years old foal. Aeon told me that I needed to grow at the normal alicorn way so a part of his soul would not be in me. I was on my way to see Aeon. I opened the door and he was looking outside, on the balcony. He knew I was there, he didn't even turned around. "What can I do for you Flare?" "I was wondering, since Tide is my Alicorn sister, because each time an Alicorn is born, it's opposite is born too, if I die, does that means that my opposite dies too?" He looked down. "Yes, indeed, that's what's hard. It happens that Brothers or Sisters Alicorns tolerate or hate themselves. Like you and Tide, you are friends, but Draft and Nucleus are enemies. What's hard is that they know that they can't kill the other one or they will die too." "I'm happy me and my sis like each other." Luna entered the room. "Flare, can you leave the room please, me and Aeon need to talk." I went outside. The door closed. I turned around and saw Princess Celestia in front of me. "Flare. Follow me." Aeon told me to not trust Celestia, but what could happen... We arrived in the main hall where I saw Tide knocked on the ground. "TIDE!!" I ran towards her, I shook her to try to wake her up. She opened her eyes. "Flare... it... it's a trap..." I turned around to run when Celestia's magic stopped me. I couldn't move. "You know, these last years, I noticed that you were becoming stronger and stronger. I want to avoid you to lose control on your power and let you become dangerous." "So what are you going to do?" "It's simple, I am going to remove your Alicorn power." I opposed totaly of the idea. "NO!" I screamed "It's going to kill my sister" Tide didn't understand that point. "What?" "Sacrificed have to be made for the security of our land." Celestia's horn started to glow and she approached her head of ours. As she were going to touch my forehead. The door rammed open and Aeon was there. "I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY MY PUPILS" Celestia let out a sight. "My sister and her big mouth..." Aeon's magic hit Celestia and threw her on the wall. She tried to do the same but Aeon used his horn to send back the spell to it's caster. Now the wall cracked. Aeon used this instant to break the containment spell, setting me and my sister free. "Flare, Tide, this is where our road are separating. I want you to go hide somewhere in Equestria, anywhere that celestia can't reach you. I will avoid her to follow you. I hope to see you again one day, good luck." Me and my sister used the transportation spell to fly away. We decided that it was going to be harder for Celestia to find us if we would be separated. So we went each other in our own way. I went to the red mountain, hoping that the legend of the Fire of Purety was true. That could maybe contain Celestia. I was right.
Emma I stayed silent, never Aeon told me about anything of this. Neither this sister thing... do I have a sister too? I... don't even know... Flare was also Aeon's pupil and he saved her from Celestia too. Now we will team up together against a common enemy. "You and I are not enough Emma, we need more Alicorn to convince Celestia. We must find my sister... and I think that I know where she hid."
We when out of the cave. The sun was rising. "Aaaah, so long since I've seen this... too long!" I looked at Flare and a tear was pearling on her eye, it's been so long since she saw a sunrise. I turned around and saw a little earth pony foal looking at us. He was seeing Two Alicorns, one on fire. He couldn't know if he should be afraid or not. He was shaking. Flare looked at the foal and said. "Dream, little pony, because it's the best thing that can happen to you." She jumped in the air and deployed her wings, I followed her.
"So Flare, Where are we going?" I asked. "There is a waterfall, when we were foals, Aeon was bringing me and my sister to it. My sister loved this place, the splashing water create sparkles and shining glares. She called it the «NightFall»" Looking at Flare each time she talks about her sister, I could see that she miss her. We followed a watercourse, suddenly the water started to fall. There wasn't any visible landing of the water, only a hole in the ground where the water was falling into. Flare looked at me. "Follow me." She dashed towards the ground, like a fireball, she followed the path of the water without touching it. For my part, I did my best to try to not getting wet. Finally there was an underground lake. Flare landed like a feather. I followed her lead. I looked around and it was beautiful, the splashing water with the light from the hole we just came from, there was stars everywhere around us. Flare was looking at a rock on the ground, it was saying "Speak your name and see if you are worth it.". She didn't wait another second. "Flare!" What happened was impressive, close of the gravel where we were, the water formed a tunnel in the water itself. "Come on" We went inside the water, well, the tunnel. The way down was not long, the underground lake wasn't deep, the water was closing the way behind us. I noticed in the water that there was a light moving around us. "My sister is the kind of shy one as I am the confident. You know, she always cheered me up as I was doing the same for her." Suddenly, the light in the water went straight in the direction of Flare. Without warning, Flare turned around, she saw the light. She smile. "TIDE!!" At the moment that the light was going to come out of the water, the water bulged and formed a hoof that became real out of the liquid. After that there was legs first, then a head came out, the torso, the wings, the back legs and the end of the tail stayed as water. A beautiful blue mare Alicorn formed itself out of the water and jumped on Flare. "FLARE! You missed me so much sister! Where have you been! I was worried for thousands of years!" "You missed me too sister. I was also worried for you." Tears came out of Flare's eyes. Tide was already crying to see again her sister.¸ "You came back in one piece. Thanks Aeon for this miracle." Tide started to hug her sister harder. My heart was melting, I almost cried too from the beauty of the moment. "Tide, we are here... because of Aeon." "Oh! Yes, where are my manners, I forgot to introduce me to your friend." She turned in my direction, trying to hold her tears. "I am Tide, Princess of Water, and you are?" "Emma, Princess of Hope." "She is Aeon's bride" Flare added. "Really, how nice, this is wonderful actually." I told the whole story to Tide so she can understand what was going on.
"Oh my... I hope that we will convince Celestia, also the fact that she doesn't really like us. Aftee escaping her I despite the idea of being separated from my sister even if that would be safer for us. I stayed here to train and meditate like Aeon told us. I sometimes go out of my hiding place to go see Draft." I was excited to hear his name. "Draft! The Prince of Air! You know where he is! This is amazing!" Flare was not enjoying the situation. "You came out of your hiding place! After the sacrifice that Aeon did to protect us! How do you want me to not be afraid to lose you sister if you just reveal yourself!" Flare was angry and in tears at the same time, scared for her sister. "Don't worry sister I am not that stupid, I did this camouflage skin spell that Aeon teached us to meet him disguised as a Pegasus." "Why did you left your hiding place anyway!" "I... love Draft, I couldn't fight it, I just needed to see him sometimes." Flare face changed, even with that she still had tears. "I... understand sis... I forgive you..." Tide hugged her sister. "I knew you would understand" "So, where are we aiming for?" I asked. Tide looked at me.
Out of the tunnel, Tide looked at us. "We will cast the spell when we'll be close of Cloudsdale, we must be quick. Normally, the spell last only half an hour then we'll turn back to our alicorn state. Then it takes one minute before we can cast it again." She flew away and we followed her. The light throught Tide's mane was reflecting due to the fact that her mane was water itself. It was amazing. Tide said that she loved Draft, I wonder, if Aeon was the mentor of him too.
Suddenly we passed throught a cloud and the floating city revealed itself. It was beautiful. Tide didn't gave us the moment of admiring the city and gave us the signal. I casted the spell of camouflage as the two others did the same. I turned into my pegasus state, the same as I was before I met Eclipse, I mean Aeon... before I met him. Flare turned into a younger pale yellow mare with red hairs. Tide turned into a pale blue mare with curly dark blue hairs. We landed on the main giant cloud. "Follow me, he is normally at a dinner place at this time." We walked in the crowded town. Ponies were talking to each others, laughing and having fun. I remembered my fallen friends Rainfall and Bitrunner that sacrificed themselves for me. I wanted to cry but I knew that they wouldn't want me to be sad. "Oh there he is." Tide pointed at a Stallion sitting at a table, reading the newspaper. He was light grey with a black and white mane. We approached him. Draft didn't even looked at me. "Emma, you've made some noise around Equestria. Ponies say that you are dangerous and you've defeated Luna and the Elements of harmony." I immediately understood the results of the fight. "...don't worry, guards here are not stupid. They recognised you, even with your little disguise." I was suprised. "But how could they..." "Celestia posted a picture of you before and after your transformation. It's weird that you look exacly like before." "How can you even know all this?" He looked at me. One of his eyes was a deep gold color and the other was lime green. "I am the Prince of Air, Sound travel throught the air, I can hear everything." He stood up and received a big hug from Tide. Flare whispered to me. "We'll need to be faster than that. We only have five minutes left." Draft, smiling, turned towards us. "So what exacly brings you to me my friends?" "We only have five minutes remaining so I don't have the time now to explain." I replied."Aeon is in the void and we need to convice Celestia to release him. And I am afraid that we will also need the help of your sister." The smile on his face dissapeared. "Then I am afraid that I won't be able to come with you. My sister is evil and won't help you. She destroy everypony she encounter after the death of her husband. In search of the one responsible." I though about it and I realised... "I am the reason why Paradoxus is dead..." He looked at me. "Excuse me?" "If Aeon wouldn't transformed me, Paradoxus wouldn't escape and attacked the church to seek revenge. He was defeated by my protector. He is dead because of me. Nucleus search for me, she will find me. Even if I need to go alone I will ask her to forgive me." "No, I will come with you!" Flare came on my side. "I will too!" Tide joined us. We all looked at Draft. He was thinking, then he looked at us. "Your spells..." We froze as we realised that our cover was startig to dissapear. We turned around and we were surrounded by Pegasus guards. We heard. "Do not resist and everything will be fine." All three of us took back our form and were kind of imposing. But none of the guard flinched. Suddenly the cloud under all the guards lifted in the airs. Throwing them at the same time. We looked at Draft and we saw him. He was a big Alicorn stallion, not as much as Aeon but he was bigger than Flare or Tide. His grey color and his mane were the same. His different eyes were amazing. "I care for my sister, even if I don't like her. I won't let you down and regret my decision all my life. I will come with you" Tide had tears in her eyes and struggled her lover. "Oh ThankyouThankyouThankyou!" "Quick we must go now." He jumped into the hole where the Clouds used to be and we followed him.
We've been flying for a long time oover this forest, Draft said that his sister was somewhere called the "Bear Claw". I am wondering how the brothers are doing... "We are approaching" Draft started to go down. We followed him. He slowed down. "She know that we are here." As he said that, a pillar came out of the trees. Stopping our progression. "Found her." I thought that it was kind of obvious. We dove down the pillar. We went through the leaves. The we all landed on the ground. We were all looking at a brown Alicorn with a long black mane. Her green eyes in the darkness were revealing her position. "Why would you all search for me?" Her voices sounded deep, like an echo. "We need you sister." Nucleus turned around her brother. "Oh yeah, and why do you need ME? NOW? I am looking for somepony for the moment, I am not for any help of yours for the moment, and I would help you brother, even if I had nothing else to do." I don't know what went into my head, but I objected. "I am the pony you are looking for." She turned in my direction. "What?" "It's my fault if Paradoxus is dead." She was looking at me, silent. I explained that Paradoxus destroyed my wedding to get his revenge on Aeon and that he died under the weapon of my guard. She walked toward me with clenched teeth. She was angry against me. I was scared. Draft said: "Nucleus." She looked in my frozen eyes. I don't know what happened, but she stopped. She closed her eyes and stepped back. "I... I am sorry, I can... see that... Paradoxus, went... himself to his own death." "Please forgive me..." "I don't need to forgive you, you are not responsible of his death." She was holding it but I know that she was crying. I felt something strange behind the trees. I was obsessed by this feeling. "Now... what do you need my help with?" I needed to know what was that feeling. "Guys, can you tell her... what happened, I... need to see something." Tide hesitated. "hum... Okay."
I went throught the leaves, I saw a white Alicorn. She had a green mane with green eyes. "Hello Emma." "Who... who are you? I... I've never saw you before, how do you know my name?" "I am Sarah, Princess of..." She looked like she was going to regret what she was going to say. "...Despair"
I froze, despair... it's the opposite of... Hope, but I... am Hope... So she is... "Yes Emma, I am your opposite, I am your sister." I didn't knew how to react, should I be afraid of her or filled with joy to finally meet my sister. "I know what you think, I am a bad mare because I am despair. I am indeed, I was born for this purpose." I sighed. "...but I don't want to." Pardon? "Yes Emma, I don't want to be despair, I don't want to absord the hope of everypony I cross my path with, filling their mind with darkness and despair." "I... I... am.. sorry?" "And I was born here, at the same time that Aeon separated us. Nucleus found me and taught me my magic. While you were receiving Aeon's teaching in your head. You was living your day like everypony else, me, I was having a hard time with Nucleus, she is rough and exigeant." "Sarah, I..." "Emma I don't to live that way, I don't want ponies to look at me and be scared" "So why don't you come with me." "Wha... What?" "Yeah... come with me, so your despair power won't have any effect with my hope power if we stick together." "You... would do that for me? A sister that you never met that is actually your opposite. I have the power of despair." "But you have a pure heart." Tears came out of her eyes, she jumped in my hooves. "Oh thank you Emma, it's the best thing anypony ever told me. Thank You Thank You Thank You. You got able to put hope in the heart of despair."
The four Alicorns came out of the woods. Flare speaked for them. "Nucleus accepted to come with us." Sarah walked towards them. "I will come too." Draft ended the conversation. "Then we are off to Canterlot."
The Equestria capital was getting bigger as we advanced. We could see smoke. Draft was the first to land in front of the castle. He looked around and saw destroyed buildings, smoking and fire. "What in Equestria happened here!" He opened the Castle door. He was the only one who could see inside. I sneaked myself behind him. There were guard bodies everywhere. I gasped. "Don't worry, they are not dead." We slowly walked in a straight line toward the hall. Flare, Tide, Draft, Nucleus, Sarah and Me. If six alicorns couldn't convince Celestia, well I don't know what we will do... The door of the hall slowly opened as we entered the room. I saw Eclipse, Noon and Midnight standing in front of Celestia on her throne with her unconscious sister at her hooves. "You see Celestia, looks like that now, you are out of options." It was the voice of Eclipse. "Hmph, I am not done yet, you'll have to do better than menacing me with your little army." Her horn started to glow and a big blow threw the three brothers at us. They rammed us, and we all felt down. After shaking our heads. We stood back up. I lookead around me. Flare was serious, I could see that she would do anything to stop Celestia. Tide was protective, on the defensive, the most important thing for her was the saffety of the others. Draft was calm. Anticipating everything he could, he was concentrated on the situation. Nucleus was angry, I don't know why. But there was something she hid from us. Sarah, my sister, was ready to help anypony she could, even with her disease. I looked at the brothers, they were standing still. Ready to the action. "I knew that six Alicorns wouldn't be enough to convince you." "You aimed good Eclispse, now turn around and just go away." "Good one Celestia... but I am always prepared. So I did a little detour and went to see some friends..." The door from where we came from slammed open. We turned around, what we saw was astonishing.
Two big alicorns, a Mare and a Stallion. She was Pure white, her mane itself was light, but her eyes were black as the darkest void. He was Grey, but, like a ghost, he was like... fading in reality. His short mane was black as the sky at night. His eyes doesn't had any pupil, they were only white. Her cutie mark was a heart half white, half black. His was a triangle inside a circle inside a cube. Who were those ponies.
All the ponies around me, except the brothers, bow in front of the big Alicorns. Even Celestia, moved a little bit backwards. I imitated them. She looked at me when she was close of me. I whispered. "Tide, who are they?" She looked at me. "You know Aeon is the Prince of Time." "Of course..." "This is his brother and his sister." "What?" "The Prince of Space and The Princess of Life." I looked at her, stunned. "Prince Aera and Princess Wit" Aeon had a brother and a sister that are the Life and Space? "The three together are called the Pony titans. Creators of Equestria." Tide was shut by a powerful voice. "My brother Aeon, that is represented her by Eclipse,Noon and Midnight, announced us that he was emprisoned by Celestia that used the moment that he was weak to seal him away. So may I ask. Why are you holding our brother?." "Because... Aeon, know something... that I don't want it to be revealed." Wit looked at the brothers. Eclipse nodged. "Whatever it is... the part of the soul of Aeon that is controlling us was separated from him before the attack of his dark... herm... Paradoxus... So we would know the thing Celestia fears, but we don't, so that mean that it happened after..." Wit looked at me, then looked back at Celestia. "Well, this is not a request Celestia, it's an order, free our brother." Celestia had a small laugh. "Okay... You won, I will release Aeon." Celestia's horn started to glow. A bright light came out. When it fade away. Eclipse, Noon and Midnight were gone. I was done, we did it. Aeon was free. Aera spoke first: "Aeon was released on the mountain of Judgement. On the other side of Equestria, he is heading toward our way but... I can feel a part of his energy here... why" We all looked at Celestia. A black aura was floating around her. Wit quietly said to her brother. "Tell me that she didn't dare." "I am sorry sister, but I am afraid she did." Celestia was suddenly growing. Flare was panicked. "What is it! What's going on!" Wit turned towards us. "She free Aeon, but kept his Dark side inside her, or as you all call him: Paradoxus." We all froze, me especially. We slowly turned toward Nucleus. She was scared. "But... tha... that's... impossible... he is dea... dead..." "But there is something else... Celestia... Well, now Paradoxus took control of her. He is casting the Titan spell, it's powerful and dangerous, we forbidden ourselves from using it. It transforms the caster into a giant animal that represent him or her." Celestia was screaming, she started to lose her fur, revealing scales under. Her horn slowly dissapeared as she was growing bigger. "... and the animal that represent Paradoxus is a royal Python" A giant snake was standing un front of us, it was all contracted and it's head was almost reaching the ceiling. "Congradulations sister... I can see that you are still smart." The voice if the snake came out of nowhere. "I can't move, I suppose that you have something to do with that Paradoxus." "Correct, let me explain my little plan, since you are a Titan and cannot die, I will «kill» you, sending your spirit in the void. Then all your little pity friends. So when Aeon will arrive, I will simply have a simple duel against him." I was angry at the murderer of my two best friends. Then I realised, we can still move... I looked at Flare, she was looking at me. I saw in her eyes what she was planning to do... No...
She whispered. "We need to give some time to Aeon." Tide looked at her sister. "What do you mean?" Paradoxus had a backward move, like if he was going to take an impulse. "I am sorry."
Everything happened in Slow motion. The snake dashed toward Wit. A fireball burst were Flare was. Tide jumped and put her hoof in Wit direction. "FLARE!! WAIT!!" The snake stopped. I couldn't see because Wit was in front of me but I quickly understood. Wit had a line of Blood on her fur. I saw the lower teeth of the monster that pierced the body of Flare. Her mouth was opened in agony. Tears came out of my eyes as I turned towards Tide. She was frozen, she slowly turned her head, a single tear was pearled on her eye. Then she slowly dissapeared. Draft screamed: "TIDE!" Flare's mane stopped flaming, it's was now long and orange. Wit couldn't stop starring at the mare that just sacrificed herself to save her life. Paradoxus moved his head and throw Flare at the wall over us, it cracked on the impact. I went over her, crying, I shook her. "Flare, Flare! Please don't leave me, I need you, We all need you." She looked at me, not even at tear in her eyes. "I did what I considered the best thing to do, I hope it was worth it." "Nothing worth a life Flare." "Then I saved all yours." She slowly pointed in the airs. We all looked, a crack was in the air. "...Aeon...*cough*"
"Flare..."
Nightfall Quietly crept in and changed us all Nightfall Immortal land lies down in agony Blind Guardian - Nightfall
The dead body of my friend was lying in my hooves, the bleeding hole in her chest was showing how big the monster was. Then I suddently remembered her last whispers... Aeon. I looked up and saw the crack, it was growing bigger, the crackling sound was loud. The snake was angry. "No... NO... Why is he already here!!! WHY IS HE ALREADY HERE!!!!!" I don't know what posessed me to shout. "AEON!!" As I yelled, the crackling sound stop, and then there was silence...
All of a sudden, there was a big Boom. The roof exploded to dust, at the same moment, I couldn't believe what I saw. A giant Hawk entered the Throne room, dashing in the snake's direction. The giant bird rammed the reptile and crushed it in the wall. It was surprising that the wall didn't broke under the impact. Dust was still everywhere. The Hawk slowly walked back, wings, on his sides. The Snake was furious. "How did you got here so fast" The Bird talked, I immediately recognized it's voice. "My animal form is far more fast than my alicorn one. I wouldn't be surprised if you'll get reports that ponies saw a giant bird." Aeon had a small laugh and turned his head towards me. "I... actually... wished to be here sooner so two lives may have been saved." "Oh you think that!" Paradoxus used his tail and grabbed me. He jumped out of the castle by breaking the wall already cracked. He landed in the plains at the roots of the mountain. I tried to move but his grip was just too strong. The hawk landed in front of us. "Release her... It's between you and me." "And what are you going to do, Hahaha." Paradoxus tail started to crush, me. I yelled in agony. Suddently I was on the giant bird's wing. "What just happened?" "I stopped time to save you." "But don't you faint each time you do it?" "I am more powerful in this form, I can use more magic without losing consciousness. Now go to safety with Wit and Aera, they will protect you. I must deal woth him alone."
Aeon Emma flew away into the castle. I turned in Paradoxus direction. "Now It's between you and me." He opened his mouth showing his venomous fangs, a bite of them and I was gone. "Give me your best shot" I dashed in his direction, he did the same. As he was going to ram me, biting me at the occasion, I did a barrel roll and grabbed his body with my claw. Then I smashed him on the ground, the impact caused an earthquake. He turned around and tried to bite me again. I used my other claw and placed in his mouth, under his fangs, stopping his movement. "Surprise." I crushed his head in the ground. His tail wrapped around my claw that now was piercing his body. "Oh somehow I completely forgot about that..." He made me do a bow movement before smashing me on the ground. I deployed my wings and went straight in the airs, bringing him with the movement. I stopped my ascension about a mile in the airs. "Ha! You try to scare me. At this height, you won't kill me." "That's my goal." "Wait what?" I used my claw to let him fall. "And now, for the grand final!" I dived in his direction, I was catching him fast so I used my wings to control my speed. "YOU KNOW WHAT! SCREW YOU AND THIS WORLD!!" I realised. "Don't you think about it..." "Look how fun it's going to be, I am going to blow all Equestria up so all my problems will be gone." He was going to uses the Final Boom. The most dangerous spell ever casted. He opened his mouth and aimed for the ground. I had to be quick. If he would hit his target with the blow, it would be over, everypony would die. I kicked the back of his head, forcing it to aim somewhere else. His aim ended up in my direction. I prepared myself for the attack. I looked in the castle and saw Emma, looking at us. Oh god I don't want her to see me receive this. *BOOM!!!* The Blaze came out of his mouth and hit me like a comet. Everything went black.
Emma
The explosion all threw us on the ground. Draft helped his sister to stood back up. "Thanks." I looked at Wit. "Don't worry Emma, he's not dead" The dust scattered away and I saw Aeon's body, back to an Alicorn, unconscious on the ground. "Aeon!" I flew in his direction. I heard Wit yelling. "Emma! Wait!" My head told me to listen to her, but my heart's will to help Aeon was stronger. I landed close of him. I shook him a little bit. He slowly opened his eyes. "It's strange... I never dreamed before... because now I see the most beautiful of the ponies I've ever saw." "Oh Aeon!" I gave him the kiss that I wanted to give him for what seems to be like an eternity. Then I heard laughing. "Oh my! So adorable, a last kiss before dying." The snake was coming closer. I grabbed Aeon and pulled him backwards. "It's not necessary Emma... I got this..." "HA!! You got this? It's not even if you could stand! Or even stand a chance against me on this form. As I will now..." He suddently stopped talking. "...And I just got reminded of my errors." "You mean your errors while trying to kill me or in general?" "That kick was not a normal kick..." "You really thought that I took back my alicorn form after eating your attack in the face. No, I simply put all my power in my kick." A big crack appeared and formed a dome around the giant Snake. "I know I cannot kill you, so I have to avoid to let you being uncontrolled." The dome closed. The cracking sound stopped. I looked at Aeon. "Boom!" "I hate you" The explosion created an earthquake powerful enough to be felt in all Equestria. Aeon and I were blew away. We both stood back up. We looked and there was no more Snake. We approached and discovered the unconscious bodies of Paradoxus and Celestia. Aeon turn around. "Bring Celestia into the hall, I'll take care of him.
We entered into the hall. Everypony was there, Draft, Nucleus, Wit, Aera and Sarah. He dropped Paradoxus violently on the ground as I slowly lay down Celestia. Her sister Luna woke up and was under the supervision of Wit.
Celestia opened her eyes. She saw in front of her 8 Alicorns, fear was in her eyes. Aeon stood in front of the others. "You are afraid that I tell them the secret of yours?" She nodged. "I actually have no choice Celestia, I need answers. So I will ask you this... Why did you released Paradoxus, the day of my wedding with Emma?" Everypony were astonished. "What?" Aeon looked at me. "When I released your alicorn form. I needed to use some power that maintained Paradoxus prisoner. Celestia used this moment to break the seal and let him go away. She knew he would aim for us. So when I was exausted, she used the opportunity to trap me in the void..." Celestia stayed silent "... so I would like to know why..." We could see that Celestia was holding herself from telling the truth. I felt a movement behind me. Sarah came close to me. "Let me show you, sister, a side of my powers." She approached Celestia. "Look at me Celestia..." Celestia looked at my sister. "...Why holding yourself Celestia... When you have no more exit or plans... When all what you've tried failed." Suddently, Sarah stopped talking and they just started to look at each other eyes. Celestia started to shake. I ask Aeon. "Wha... What is she doing?" "She is feeding from Celestia's hope... well the remaining of it." Suddently, Celestia gave up. "Okay, fine, I'll tell you." Sarah, stopped and looked at me, smiling, I didn't knew if I should be happy or afraid of her. "I couldn't stand to see you give away power to most anypony you liked, you gave power to Flare and Emma, Everypony here know who made them an Alicorn. I don't know who transformed me. So when I heard that Emma had this power in her, I got mad and I released Paradoxus because he told me that he would help me to get answers, but when I did, he flew away. I did not want you to think I was a part of this so I tried to avoid you to tell anypony so I trapped you. I... I am sorry." Everypony was looking at her. Aeon slowly approached Celestia. "I forgive you... but Celestia..." She looked at him, tears of joy in her eyes, happy that Aeon forgave her. "...You could've just asked... You are one of the few borned-Alicorn. One of the three... There is you, Cadence and..." We all waited for the third name, Aeon looked like he was hesitating to say it. "...Oh, it doesn't matter, the point is that no one of us had to gave you power because you were born like this. I knew your mother, she was an alicorn too, a nice mare, but died during the great war, by trying to reason her peoples, she got assassinated by a rebel. She gave life to you and your sister before the sad day. I've let you both in the capable hands of Wit. You see Celestia, an Alicorn is borned like this only when his or her parents are alicorns too, both of them."
We heard a growl, we turned around, Paradoxus was awoken. Still paralyzed by Aeon. "Aaargh, I think you broke many of my ribs." "Hum... I was sure I broke only two of them. Be happy Paradoxus, you will return in your familiar cage where you belong, and it's okay, I don't think that anypony will try to free you again."
Aeon turned around and joined his brother and his sister. "Since we are the three of us together for one of the rare times. Maybe we can do something special." Wit looked at her brothers. "Okay... Emma, for reunite us, we accept to grant you one wish..." My heart exploded, anything I could desire could be mine to this instant... but... no... Nothing in this world can be compared to what I lost. "So Emma what is your wish?" "I can wish for anything?" "Anything." "I wish that everypony that were killed by Paradoxus, comes back to life." Wit smiled. "Then it may be done." Their three horns united together and a bright light came out. When it fade out. I looked at Flare's body. Tide was unconscious close of her. "Flare!" I ran in her direction. She gasped, and looked at her chest. "I am fine! I am okay!" Tide also woke up. Draft grabbed her.. "I thought I'd lost you." Then they kissed each other.
I walked close of Aeon. "Aeon, I felt useless sometimes. I never used my magic to help. I am hope and I've done nothing." "Au contraire Emma, you power doesn't always come from your horn, but from your heart too. You united two lost sisters together, you forced Tide to admit her love for Draft and you reconcile a sister and her brother that hated each other. You even met your own sister. You put hope in all of these ponies lifes." "But my sister, why did you never talked to me about her." "Sarah is the power of Despair, I didn't wanted you to have any ideas about her before you meet." "Thank you Aeon." "I am not to thank Emma... Thank you." I gave him a kiss that last for what seems like a thousand years. "Let's go home"
We went back to Ponyville, Tide went to Cloudsdale with Draft, Flare returned to the red mountain to help the locals. Nucleus returned in the forests and Sarah came to live with us. We arrived in front of Emma's house. Sharpe and SilverShield saluted us and opened the door. "My Prince, some ponies were sleeping in front of the door. I think that you may know them." I knew who Sharpe was talking about, I turned in Emma's direction and she looked confused. She entered the house, she turned her head and screamed of joy. "RAINFALL!!! BITRUNNER!!!" She jumped in their direction and hugged them as hard as she could, tears of joy coming out of her diamond eyes. Everything was back to normal... As I thought...
A year later This morning, Emma looked different, she wasn't happy nor sad. Sarah tho was... still asleep. She was not eating nor drinking. "Emma? Is there something wrong?" She looked at me and I had a flash, two faces. What was that suppose to mean?... "Emma?" "Aeon... I need to tell you something..." I looked at her, partially scared of what the news can be... "...you may find that as a good news or a bad one." "Emma, if it's a problem, I'll fix it, there is no problem. If it's a good news for you, it'll be one for me too."
The capital was standing in front of us. It's a beautiful day. Celestia should be in the castle. We must go now... "Brothers, I don't think that we'll be trespassing without being noticed." "Of course we will be noticed MidNight, but we might as well reach our obective, whoever crosses our path." I looked at Wit. "Don't disturb yourself, let us do the work. Stay behind..." "But of course, do what you feel like." "RELEASE ME YOU IMBECILES!!" "Oh Luna, aren't you tired to shout after us, we are bringing you back home... Wit, can you also keep an eye on Luna the time we clear the path."
The gates of Canterlot were closed. Looks like Celestia don't want us to get in. Strange tho that Shining Armor, the brother of the little Twilight didn't do the "bubble" spell thingy... Would have been easy to break anyway, Noon's back legs are quite strong enough. We heard a guards voice. "HALT!" Me and my brothers looked at the Stallion. "NAME YOUSELVES!" Why hold back and lie about our names? "I am Eclipse, and these are my brothers Noon and Midnight." The Guard had a backward movement. "YO... YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO ENTER CANTERLOT!" "Oh... are we? So sad..." I turned in the direction of my brothers. "We will have to enter without permission, try to not kill anypony, even if they try to kill us." Noon walked in the direction of the door. "HEY! STEP BACK!" Noon arrived in front of the door. The guard was scared, he turned around and ran. To get some reinforcements I guessed. My brother kicked on the door and it slammed open. The metal pillar that was holding it closed broke in half. On the other side of the gate, a hundred guards were waiting for us. Spears pointed at us. Shining Armor was in the lead. "So nice to meet you finally Shining Armor, I heard of your adventure with Chrysalis. Actually, I was there the day it happened." "I never met you but Celestia informed us that your evilness shall not reach the Castle and I'll follow these orders to the letter." "Evilness? Haha, you really do not know who we are, you are well uninformed like your sister." "You... you met my sister!" "Well, she, and the five other elements, tried to stop us. You can understand by our presence the turn out of the fight." Anger, appeared on the face of the Stallion. "Aww don't worry for your sister, she is not dead. I am the good guy in this story." "Wha... What? No... NO YOU AREN'T!!! GUARDS!!" "Noon, MidNight..." My brothers dissapeared like ghosts, I could see them but the guards couldn't they started to beat the crap out of them, breaking spears and armor like it was butter. Knocking each one of Celestia's minions, breaking windows, houses and stuff, tho without touching Shining Armor, the Stallion was starring at me. Nothing else was bothering him. "Your guards would need your help, don't you think." Shining's horn started to glow. What was he doing? Suddently Noon and MidNight Stopped moving. Shining Armor's eyes were closed, he was concentrating to contain them, especially my brothers wings. He did a final move to throw them on the ground, close of me. "Oh ho ho... You impress me Shining, I expected less from you. But now, it is my turn." My horn started to glow, his too. I teleported on a house, he followed me. We continued to teleport, each time hitting each other when the opportunity was presenting itself. We did that blitz until we arrived to the castle. Then I casted the lightblow spell, out of my horn, a powerful beam of light hit Shining Armor, knocking him down. His body slip to the legs of a big mare. I look up. A pink Alicorn was standing in front of the castle gates. "Oh, Cadence. I reckon that you want join the party?" "I will not let you get inside, I will protect these gates with my life." A familiar voice came out of behind me. "Don't need to be violent dear Cadence because if you succeed defeating Noon, Eclipse and MidNight..." My brother arrived at the same moment "... It'll be our turn to get into the action." Cadence stepped back. Scared of seeing Wit and Aera, approaching levitating Luna in the airs. "I think it would be a better thing for you if you take care of your husband Cadence, this story can easily continue without your blood on the pages." Aera doesn't speak much, but when he does, his paroles are respected. Cadence lifted Shining Armor's body and left, under the supervision of the three titans.
"We will take Luna with us thank you." "What about us?" Wit asked "I would prefer that your presence is a surprise for Celestia and my guests. So hide youselves. I am sure that you'll feel when the good moment has come." Wit and Aera dissapeared I opened the door.
